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ROCK MUSIC
TIMELINE
1970
- The Beatles release their last album "Let It Be" before breaking up. All four members begin successful solo careers.
- The Isle of Wight festival is held in the UK and beats Woodstock for attendance with an audience of over 600,000.
- Simon and Garfunkel break up while their album and single "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is number one.
- U.K. band Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut album, considered by many to be the first "heavy metal" album.
- Overdoses claim the lives of top sixties rock stars Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
- Motown's newest hitmakers The Jackson Five score four U.S. #1 singles.
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