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Significant Books and Music of the Century, Year by Year
1970 was the year that four students were killed during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in Ohio; Salvador Allende, a Marxist, was elected president of Chile; rockers Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both died of drug overdoses; and FIFTH BUSINESS, the first volume in Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy, was published.


Significant Book of 1970:
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

BOOK An instant classic that introduced the world to “magical realism,” this is the story of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family, their dreams, wars, loves, births, and deaths. Some consider it the best book of the century.

  Significant Music of 1970:
Derek and the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

BOOK Unrequited love, a gritty American band, and a guest appearance by Duane Allman all helped make this album one of Eric Clapton’s masterpieces. Although Derek and the Dominos, the band that the album is credited to, never released another recording, Clapton eventually married the woman he was pining for: Patti Boyd, former wife of George Harrison.




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