then 1973 is when country shook off Nashville and embraced rock & roll – as a musical style and as an artistic ethos. Here are a dozen songs – all from that extraordinary year of 1973 – that ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...