YouTube Gold: The Sultans Of Swing

Photo by Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images A Music Heritage Award from the Performing Right Society outside 1 Farrer House in Deptford, South London. Dire Straits band members Mark Knopfler and John Illsley once shared the council flat.Pop music had an interesting path in the 1970s. The Beatles broke up in 1970 and a lot of bands fell into serious drug abuse which really derailed groups like The Rolling Stones and The Who. Then some groups just did soft pop, like Bread, and some moved into country rock, like Gram Parsons and the Eagles.

Then there was disco, followed closely by punk and New Wave and a few one-off bands like Golden Earring and their classic Radar Love.

But a lot of it was…