This one’s about what you can achieve when you put your mind to it.
Interesting statistic that I just made up: the average successful music artist today spends three years between albums. It’s probably something like that. For Daft Punk, it was eight years. The Beatles had come and gone in the space of eight years.
So when you look at when was a great (but expensive) time to be a music fan, you look at who produced a burst of classic albums consistently in a concentrated period. Three to check out from a golden period in the early seventies:
Marvin Gaye 1971-3: three albums including What’s Going On and Let’s Get It On.
Steve Wonder: 1972-4: four albums including Innervisions and Talking Book
Elton John 1971-3: four albums including Madman across the water, Honky Chateau and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.