Research Guides
1976 – Heart’s Dreamboat Annie released, Ann and Nancy Wilson gain international fame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDJ45qJHBQ
CD: http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/record=b2517237~S3
1979 – Bruce Pavitt launches photocopied zine Subterranean Pop in Olympia, which lays the foundation for Sub Pop Records.
1979 – The Rocket magazine debuts in October & covers the local music scene for two decades.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3588
Read The Rocket on microfilm! http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/record=b4381041~S3
1984 – The Young Fresh Fellows’s LP, Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest, lauded as “perfect” by Rolling Stone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQFpBraRpY
CD: http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/record=b4545852~S3
1984 Seattle Symphony Orchestra hires Gerard Schwarz as principal conductor on June 27, 1984.
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3884
1985 – Seattle initiates controversial Teen Dance Ordinance restricting young people’s access to music.
1985 – Local rocker, Duff McKagan joins Guns and Roses and becomes a star.
1986 – Tacoma’s Robert Cray finds worldwide fame with his Grammy-winning third album, Strong Presuader.
1986 – CZ Records Deep Six compilation showcases new hybrid “grunge” sound of punk and heavy metal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Six_%28album%29