At one point I always thought it was the artist but come to find out that's not necessarily a guaranteed thing.

Many rock albums came out in the 70's, I have many of them believe me but going back and listening to them I found not everything works in the classic rock format.

Another question may arise is it because it gets airplay and sales ? I don't think it's exclusive to that, perfect example is The Knack's "My Sharona". That song just happened to be the top selling single in the year 1979, in fact; the album went Platinum in less than two months. Two more albums later they went down hill, disbanded early '80's.

Led Zeppelin, You Tube
Led Zeppelin, You Tube
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How about the theme of the lyric's or musical style? Then again I think not, The Beatles and say Led Zeppelin didn't really perform the same kind of music yet both recorded classic rock albums and very different music style's.

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