The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 5
Every once in a while, humankind has one of those pivotal years where everything changes...\n325 AD and the council of Nicea...1215 and the signing of the Magna Carta...the discoveries of 1492..The revolutions of 1789...1919 and the Treaty of Versailles...the great stock market crash of 1929...the dark days of World War II in 1942...the unrest of 1968...the fall of the iron curtain in 1989...\nIn there somewhere is 1977...okay, so to say it was as important to world history as some of these other years might be stretching it...but still, a lot happened...\nOn January 3, a new company called \u201cApple Computer\u201d was incorporated and the Apple ii went on sale that June...in October, Atari released the ground-breaking 2600 video game console...and in November, boffins running a computer network called Arpanet successfully test something called \u201ctcp/ip\u201d which lay the foundation for the internet...\nAs for music, most of the planet took notice when Elvis Presley died that summer...a big story, yes\u2013but it\u2019s not the music story that I\u2019m thinking of...for that, we have to go to England where a perfectly good royal celebration was sullied by four clots called The Sex Pistols...and for that, we should be very grateful...\nThis is the complete history of alt-rock, chapter 5...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices