name something bad that came out in 71 - i have a theory that everything had a certain je ne sais qua - even crap things like carry on were good - as if the time lent itself to the product - gave it a certain patina.
look at the music : marvin gaye's whats going on
Sly stone's a riot going on

Hendrix had died just at the end of the previous year and a pall was cast - it was gritty and dark, the dirt lifted from the city streets and clung to the walls in the claustophobic red arcing sun, but out of it a diamond..

what do you think?