Music1975: 30 rock albums released 50 years ago [LISTA]The year did not bring a major revolution to the style, but it offered good work from big bands that were consolidated or emerging notoriousBy Editorial Staff

1975 It wasn’t exactly a year of transition for rock — which in the following years would lose strength with the disco phenomenon. Still, big names from previous times were consolidated while some emerging ones stood out.

In the first few weeks, on January 20th, Bob Dylan made the album available Blood on the Trackswhich addresses many of the personal problems the musician was facing at the time. It didn’t become an instant classic — far from it, as it received a lot of criticism at the time — but it gained cult status over time and is now seen as one of the artist’s best works.

THE Led Zeppelin took another step in his sonic evolution with Physical Graffitian album that highlights the classic “Kashmir”. In the same year, the vocalist Robert Plant suffered a serious car accident with his wife, Maureen.

After gnawing on the bone in the previous two years, the Kiss began to pave his path to fame in 1975. Dressed to Kill, his third studio album, brought the hit “Rock and Roll All Night” — but it would only appear on its live version of the album Alive! (1975). The list, it is worth highlighting, will not have live work.

THE Fleetwood Mac began designing his new sound model with the eponymous album (also called White Album), the first with the singer Stevie Nicks and the guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham. In turn, the Black Sabbath released what is considered his last classic work with the original lineup, Sabotagewhile the Rainbownew band of the guitarist recently left Deep PurpleRitchie Blackmorepremiered — and presented to the world Ronnie James Dioowner of one of the most powerful voices in the history of metal and, get this, future member of Sabbath.

Bruce Springsteen made available Born to Runhis first album to be truly successful, while the Pink Floyd put an end to the wait for a successor to The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) with Wish You Were Herecited by David Gilmour as the best work of the group. In November, the queen he also launched what is considered by many to be his peak: A Night at the Operaresponsible for introducing nothing less than “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

Brazil was still feeling the effects of the military dictatorship, which undeniably slowed the development of rock — and so many other cultural manifestations — in the country. Even so, classics such as Forbidden Fruitfrom Rita Leeand New Aeonfrom Raul Seixas. It was also the year in which the public had access to the first works of dissidents of the ephemeral Dry & Wet: Water from the Sky – Birdfrom Ney Matogrossoand the homonymous work by John Ricardoalso known as Pink Album.

In the experimental scope, Lula Cortes and Zé Ramalho created together Paêbiruacclaimed as one of the best albums of that time — also for the mystique that surrounded its vinyl copies, almost all of which were destroyed in a flood, transforming its original pressing into one of the rarest and most expensive albums on the planet. On the heavier side, even though there was no national representative of heavy metal until that moment, names like The Third (with Creatures of the Night), Engine Room (with Home of Wonders) and The Weight (with In Search of Lost Time) flirted with elements of the genre.

Check out, below, 30 outstanding rock albums released in 1975 — that is, turning 50 in 2025 —, listed in alphabetical order. As previously emphasized, live records were not considered.

1975: 30 rock albums released 50 years ago

Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic

Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare

Black Sabbath – Sabotage

Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run

Engine Room – Home of Wonders

David Bowie – Young Americans

Deep Purple – Come Taste the Band

Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

George Harrison – Extra Texture (Read All About It)

João Ricardo – João Ricardo (Pink Album)

John Lennon – Rock ‘n’ Roll

Kiss – Dressed to Kill

Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti

Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho – Paêbiru

Nazareth – Hair of the Dog

Ney Matogrosso – Water from the Sky – Bird

The Weight – In Search of Lost Time

The Third – Creatures of the Night

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Queen – A Night at the Opera

Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow

Raul Seixas – New Aeon

Rick Wakeman – The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Rita Lee – Forbidden Fruit

Rush – Fly By Night (in addition to Caress of Steel)

Scorpions – In Trance

The Who – The Who By Numbers

Thin Lizzy – fighting

Wings – Venus and Mars

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