The year 1972 was the longest year of the Gregorian calendar. As a leap year, it was one day and two leap seconds longer than usual.

In no particular order.

• Lou Reed ‘Transformer’

• Aretha Franklin ‘Young, Gifted And Black’

• Steely Dan ‘Can’t Buy A Thrill’

• Genesis ‘Foxtrot’

• Paul Simon ‘Paul Simon’

• Neil Young ‘Harvest’

• Curtis Mayfield ‘Superfly’

• David Crosby ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name’

• Elton John ‘Honky Château’

I’m going to post the top 9 albums of every year from the last 50 years. One post every week.

If you like the albums and the songs, go check out the playlist on Spotify.

The playlist for the Sailing For Peace blog series 'Top Albums From The Last 50 Years'. Nine songs for each year representing the nine albums of the year. Randomly from 1971 to 2021. It grows every week. And it is a lot of good music.

The perfect soundtrack for your sailing turn. Come aboard and please enjoy!

The absolute top albums from the last 50 years.

For me.

1972

This is edition No. 29 from 50.

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