Singer/Songwriters
- Joni Mitchell
- On Let’s Sing Out (1965, 1966)
- BBC In Concert (orig. broadcast October 9, 1970)
- “Coyote” (Last Waltz, 1976)
- “Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius” (The Ringer, 10/16/2017)
- Aretha Franklin
- “Won’t Be Long” (1964, tv show)
- “Do Right Woman” (11/1/1967, tv show)
- “Dr. Feelgood” (1968, Amsterdam)
- “Don’t Play the Song for Me” (1970)
- “Share Your Love with Me” (1971)
- “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” (3/5/1971, Fillmore West)
- “Precious Lord” (Mahalia Jackson’s funeral, 1972)
- “You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)” (Kennedy Center, 12/6/2015); “Why We’re Still Watching that Video” (medium.com, 1/4/2016); Aretha Franklin Vogue interview (1/13/2016)
- “Soul Survivor” (New Yorker magazine, 4/4/2016)
- The Last Waltz (1976)
- “Forever Young” (Bob Dylan); with Will.I.Am in Pepsi commercial (2009)
- Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and 70s (Vanity Fair, 3/2015)
Progressive/Art Rock
- Yes, “Roundabout” (live, 1973)
- from This is Spinal Tap, “Stonehenge” (1984)
- “The Persistence of Prog Rock” (Kelefa Sanneh, newyorker.com, 6/19/2017)
Disco
- Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture
- Beware Bogus Theories of Sexual Orientation (Scientific American, 2016)
- Nik Cohn’s 1976 NY mag article that inspired Saturday Night Fever; the real story (NY Times article 20 years later)
- 1979 Disco Demolition Night (with Greg Gumbel); Museum of Classic Chicago tv; 50th anniversary (article)
- The Last Days of Gay Disco (Peter Braunstein, Village Voice, 1998)
- Maestro: Larry Levan and early DJ Culture (documenary)
- Weather Girls/Two Tons of Fun, “It’s Raining Men” (1982, written by Paul Jabara and Paul Schaffer); Geri Halliwell’s version (2001); Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus
- Taste of Honey, “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” (1978); 2004
- Saturday Night Fever (1977): “You Should be Dancing,” “Night Fever“
- Cars
- Lesbians and Subarus (slate.com, 1/2/2014)
- Gay-Friendly Cars (cbsnews.com, 4/17/2009)
- It Drives Straight Too (latimes, 10/14/2004)
Punk
- Punk Magazine
- Richard Hell website (w/link to Blank Generation film)
- 1991: The Year Punk Broke (dvd trailer)
- SNL History of Punk
- Patti Smith
- on SNL 4/17/1976
- The Story Behind Gloria (covermesongs.com, 8/4/2014)
- CBGB Rock Festival: Top 40 New York Unrecorded Rock Talent (7/21/1975)
- Sex Pistoles
- Sex Pistols website (history, etc.)
- tv interview (12/1/1976)
- The Story of Feminist Punk in 33 Songs (pitchfork.com, 2016)
- These Photographers Blondie, Joan Jett, and the Women of Punk (artsy.net, 2016)
- Anarchy in the Archives (Cornell University’s punk archives); Punkfest panels
New Wave
- “The New Wave Coming of Age” (Billboard, Jan. 14, 1978)
Hard Rock
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- “Takin’ Care of Business” (1974)
- “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” (1974)
- “Highway to Hell” (AC/DC), sung by 68-year-old
Glam Rock
- David Bowie
- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973, released 1983, DA Pennebaker)
- Ziggy Stardust Companion (timeline)
Soul Train
- Dance Off (O’Jays’ “Love Train” released 1972)
Stevie Wonder
- Breakdown of “Superstition” clavinet parts
- Stevie Wonder and Electric Lady Studios (prosoundnetwork.com, 2010)
- ‘I Thought He Was a Messenger’: Making Stevie Wonder’s ‘Talking Book’ (theatlantic.com, 9/2012)
Misc.
- “Walk on the Wild Side,” breakdown of the original bass line
- Kraftwerk, “The Robots” (1977); live medley (1978); “Das Model” (1980); BBC interview (2012)
- The Invention of Ambient Music (New Yorker, 1/20/2016)
- Grateful Dead at Wesleyan (May, 1970)
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Winter in America, “H20Gate Blues” (1974, with Brian Jackson)
- The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron, “We Beg Your Pardon America” (1978)