Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack, who was launched to stardom in the early ’70s by the Grammy-winning hits “The First Time ...

The 1970s. What a decade for music! It was a wild, experimental, and incredibly fertile period that saw genres explode, artists push boundaries, and hit after hit cascade from radios across the globe.