1977 - The Year in Music

From Wikipedia:

January 26: Alice Cooper enters rehab for his alcoholism, after ten years of drinking a pack of beer a day.

February 14: The B-52's make their debut at a party in Athens, Georgia

February 27: Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards' Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia. Richards is arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic, and possession of cocaine.

April 25: During a concert at the Saginaw, Michigan Civic Center, Elvis Presley makes what would turn out to be the last recordings he would ever make.

July 24: Led Zeppelin perform in Oakland at their last ever concert in the United States.

August 16: Elvis Presley is found dead at his home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.

October 20: A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing songwriter & vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and background vocalist Cassie Gaines.

December 14: Saturday Night Fever appears in theaters, igniting a new popularity for Disco music.

Here are the 1977 albums I remember getting a lot of exposure at RHS parties:

Aja - Steely Dan
Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Foreigner - Foreigner
I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project
JT - James Taylor
Love Gun - Kiss
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Night Moves - Bob Seger
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Slowhand - Eric Clapton
Songs of the Wood - Jethro Tull
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Street Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead

Man, that list brings back some memories. I will probably end up dropping a hundred bucks going retro at iTunes tonight.