A Top Ten Memoir: 1974 - "How to turn down the noise in my mind..."

Whereas 1973 seemed like the year when I really latched onto my own music tastes and Top 40 radio, 1974 was an odd duck of a year.  I read somewhere that it’s considered by some as one of the worst years for popular music.  There was an unusually large number of number one songs that year on the Billboard Hot 100 too…perhaps people didn’t connect with m…