The year 1975 was just yesterday, but it was also 50 years ago. That was back went you could go into a record store and watch the staff open a case of new vinyl albums with artful and easy-to-see covers. Some of the new releases had been eagerly awaited, like Physical Graffiti. Led Zeppelin's sixth album contained the titled track to their fifth album, Houses of the Holy. It was just the kind of thing they'd do. Other albums were surprisingly good, like Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. He must've been really young when he recorded it, and it was his third album.
One that I'd looked particularly forward to was the new Queen album, A Night at the Opera. A fellow I admired (who I eventually married) introduced me to Queen with their album Sheer Heart Attack a year earlier. The first single from A Night at the Opera was a nonsensical operatic tune named "Bohemian Rhapsody." Oh, I see now that you're having trouble believing those albums are 50 years old. Well, they will be sometime this year, and so will 17 other classic albums that were released in 1975 that you can read about at Mental Floss.
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