1972 in music

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Albums Released

• Harvest - Neil Young

The best selling album of the year in the United States. Features hits such as "Heart of Gold" and "Needle and the Damage Done". The album blends country music and rock and roll and a degree of experimentalism, all led by Young's guitar and songwriting talents.

• Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

• The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

• Ege Bamyasi - Can

• Eat A Peach - The Allman Brothers Band

• Something/Anything - Todd Rundgren

• Machine Head - Deep Purple

This album contains the rock and roll staple "Smoke on the Water". The album is one of the first heavy metal records, as the style would come to be known.

• Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa

• Music of My Mind - Stevie Wonder

• Paul Simon - Paul Simon

• American Pie - Don McLean

• No Secrets - Carly Simon

• Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

• Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan

• Black Sabbath, Vol. 4 - Black Sabbath

• One Man Dog - James Taylor

#1 Hits

• "American Pie" - Don McLean

Births

• Calvin Broadus, better known as rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg