BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1974
- By the Light of the Green Star
- Carrie
- Centennial
- The Forever War
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
- Jaws
- A Midsummer Tempest
- The Mote in God's Eye
- Six Days of the Condor
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
- Marvel Two-In-On - probably my favoritest series ever
- Métal Hurlant - which you may know by its English title, Heavy Metal
- One-Man Army Corps - one of Kirby's greatest creations
- Planet of the Apes
- Star*Reach - Which I did not know existed until I started hitting wikipedia for this article
- Savage Sword of Conan
- Superman Family
- Chico and the Man
- Good Times
- Hong Kong Phooey
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Land of the Lost
- Little House on the Priairie
- Nova
- Planet of the Apes
- Rhoda
- The Rockford Files
- Shazam!
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Benji
- Blazing Saddles
- Caged Heat
- Chinatown
- Dark Star
- F for Fake
- The Godfather part II
- Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
- The Longest Yard
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Street Fighter
- Vampyres
- Young Frankenstein
- Zardoz
- HMS Alacrity, HMS Arrow, HMS Cardiff, HMS Coventry - all of which later saw action in the Falklands War
- Bailey's Irish Creme
- Intel 8080 microprocessor
- the San Diego Chicken
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Rush's first album came out in 1974. Rush and D&D are very much tied together for me. I experienced both of them for the first time together, down in my cousin's basement, around 1976 or '77.
ReplyDeleteOther Albums Released in 1974:
Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
Bad Company: Bad Co.
Bob Seger: Seven
Chicago: VII and VIII
David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
Deep Purple: Burn and Stormbringer
Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd.
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (and A live album, I think)
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill
Iron Butterfly: Sun and Steel
Jethro Tull: Warchild
Judas Pries: Rocka Rolla
Kansas: Kansas
King Crimson: Red
Kiss: Kiss
Lou Reed: Rock'n'Roll Animal
Mott the Hoople: The Hoople
New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon
ProcoL Harum: Exotic Birds and Fruit
Queen: Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack
Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Santana: Borboletta
Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
Styx: Man of Miracles
Sweet: Desolation Blvd.
Uriah Heep: Wonderworld
Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer
All in all, a good year.
more here: http://www.oldielyrics.com/1974.html
I arrived in 1974, so it was defintely a good year.
ReplyDeleteBaileys and Zardoz. That's one hellacious Combination.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly enough, I just went through the Sinbad-Trilogy. Many D&D-isms are right there; especially the sensible interaction of spell effects: wall of force, invisibility used in a fight etc.
ReplyDeletePlus: Golden Voyage has Tom Baker as the Evil-Pact-Mage; whereas th Eye of the Tiger has no one less thatn Patrick Troughton as the Good-Alchemist-Guy. Awesome D&D movies in so many more ways than the Monsters.
The first issue of Marvel Comic's Man-Thing is dated Jan. 1974. Awesome stuff.
ReplyDeleteYoung Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles came out the same year? Wow, I never realized that. Why does it take so damn long to make movies these days?!
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Barking Alien
Bailey's. Mmmmmmmmmm :)
ReplyDeleteAhh, Forgotten Beasts of Eld...
ReplyDeleteAhh, Zardoz...
I couldn't find your email adress, so...here is something for Shatnerday:
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Rockford Files FTW!
ReplyDeleteThe Ramones, Blondie, and Talking Heads all formed in '74 too. Good year indeed.
ReplyDeleteGiants walked the earth, in those days...
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Coming to this very late, but I felt compelled to point out that the song "Kung Fu Fighting" was released that year too.
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