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Top 10 Albums 1979-Baby Boomers

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The 70's are coming to a close and the music of baby boomers is becoming more and more eclectic.

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The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into a film.

Breakfast in America is the sixth album by the band Supertramp, released in 1979. It was recorded the previous year at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles. The album featured four hit singles: "The Logical Song" (#6), "Goodbye Stranger" (#15), "Take the Long Way Home" (#10), and the title track (#16)

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52nd Street is the sixth studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1978. It was also the first of many Joel albums to top the Billboard charts, along with his third and fourth Grammy win. 52nd Street also became, in 1982, the first album to be released on compact disc by Sony Music Entertainment.

Spirits Having Flown is the Bee Gees' thirteenth original album, released in 1979. It was the group's first album after their collaboration on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Spirits Having Flown sold 16 million copies worldwide, and the album's first three tracks were released as singles which all went to no.1 in the US. It was also the first Bee Gees album to make the UK top 40 in ten years (not counting the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever), as well as being their first and only UK no.1 album.

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Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by pop musician Michael Jackson, released August 10, 1979 on Epic Records. The album follows Jackson's critically well received theatrical performance in The Wiz.

London Calling is the third album by English punk rock band The Clash, released 14 December 1979, on CBS Records in the UK and in January 1980 on Epic Records in the United States. The album represented a change in The Clash's musical style, and featured elements of ska, pop, soul, rockabilly and reggae music. The album's subject matter included unemployment, racial conflict, drug use, and the responsibilities of adulthood.

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Blondes Have More Fun (with title adding on the back sleeve ...Or Do They?) is Rod Stewart‘s ninth album, released in December, 1978. This album was also released as a "picture disc", a vinyl album with the entire front cover picture embedded instead of the standard label/black vinyl configuration.

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by Eagles, released in 1979. This was the first Eagles album not to feature founding member Randy Meisner, who was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit.

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Discovery was Electric Light Orchestra’s first No. 1 album in the UK, entering the chart at that position and staying there for five weeks.

Reggatta De Blanc - The album continued to build on the success of the band's previous record, Outlandos D'Amour, hitting #1 on the UK and Australian album charts upon its release in October 1979. "Message in a Bottle" and "Walking on the Moon" were released as singles and both reached #1 in Great Britain.

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