1976 READERS’ POLL

1976 READERS’ POLL

WAX

TOP THREE ALBUMS 1 .Rocks (Aerosmith)

2.Frampton Comes Alive (Peter Frampton)

3. The Song Remains tfie

Same (Led Zeppelin)

4. Destroyer (Kiss)

5. Agents of Fortune (Blue Oyster Cult)

6.Presence (Led Zeppelin)

7.Blue Moves (Elton John)

8. A Night On the T own (Rod Stewart)

9.Station to Station (David Bowie) 10. Black and Blue (Rolling Stones)

11 .A Night At The Opera (Queen) 12.Rainbow Rising 13.Songs In The Key Of Life (Stevie Wonder)

14.Free For All (Ted Nugent)

15.Boston (Boston)

16.Ramones (Ramdnes) ...

17 .Wings AtThe Speed Of Sound (Wings)

18.Horses (PattiSmith)

19.2112 (Rush)

20 .Changesonebowie (David Bowie)

“My old Stones & Yardbirds records sound better every day.”

Suzanne Center, Carbon Hill, AL

BEST RE-ISSUE

1 .Beatles Rock’n’Roll Music (Beatles)

2. Changesonebowie (David Bowie)

3.Kiss Originals (Kiss)

4.Frampton Comes Alive (Peter Frampton)

5. Eagles Greatest Hits (Eagles)

6.Best of Jethro Tull (Jethro Tull)

7. Best of Rod Stewart (Rod Stewart)

8. We Sold Our Souls (Black Sabbath)

9.The Legendary Christine Perfect Album (Christine Perfect McVie)

10.Sun Sessions (Elvis Presley)

BEST R&B ALBUM

1 .Songs In the Key Off Liffe (Stevie Wonder).

2. Black and Blue (Rolling Stones) 3-Silk Degrees (BozScaggs)

4. Station to Station (David Bowie)

5.Spirit (Earth, Wind & Fire)

6. Wild Cherry (Wild Cherry)

7.War’s Greatest Hits (War) '

8. Gratitude (Earth, Wind & Fire)

9.Wired (Jeff Beck)

10.Mothership Connection (Parliament-Funkadelic)

“Let us all pray for the early demise of disco!”

.Mark Truhowsky, Bridgeport, CN

BEST JAZZ ALBUM

1.Wired (JeH Beck)

2.Breezin’ (George Benson)

3.Chicago X (Chicago)

4.Silk Degrees (Boz Scaggs)

5.Songs Irt the Key Of Lifa.

(Stevie Wonder)

6.Land of the Midnight Sun (A1 Dimeola)

7. Hard Rain (Bob Dylan)

8. Mysteries (Keith Jarrett)

■9.School Days (Stanley Clarke)

10. Romantic Warrior (Chick Corea)

TOP TWO SINGLES 1 .Don’t Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)

2.Last Child (Aerosmith)

3. Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart (Elton John & Kiki Dee)

4.Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton)

5.Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

6.Beth (Kiss)

7.Magic Man (Beart)

8.Tonight’s the Night (Rod Stewart)

9.More Than A Feeling (Boston) lO.Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)

FLESH AND BLOOD

TOPTHREEGROUPS 1 .Aerosmith

2.Kiss

3.Led Zeppelin

4.Rolling Stones

5.The Who

6.Blue Oyster Cult

7.Queen

8. Yes

9. Wings lO.Ramones

11 .Peter Frampton Band

12.Elton John Band

13.Ted Nugent Band

14.Bad Company 15Pleetwood Mac

16 Push

17 .Patti Smith Band

18.Eagles

19.Blackmore’s Rainbow 20 .Roxy Music

“ft was a good year to be asleep ”

Bob Johnstone,

Edm onton, Alberta,

CANADA

BEST MALE SINGER 1 .Robert Plant 2.Peter Frampton 3.Steven Tyler

4. Elton Jphn

5.David Bowie

6.Paul McCartney

7.Mick dagger

8. Lou Reed

9.Rod Stewart 10.Paul Stanley

TOP THREE LIVE GROUPS

1.Kiss

2. Aerosmith

3.The Who

4.Led Zeppelin

/ 5.Blue Oyster Cult

6.Rolling Stones

7. Yes

8. Peter Frampton Band

9.Queen

10:Bad Company ,

11.Wings

12.Elton John Band

13.Jeffejson Starship

14.Bruce Springsteen Band

15.Rush

16.The Tubes

17 .Lynyrd Skynyrd

18.Ted Nugent Band

19.Alice Cooper Band

20.Patti Smith Band

‘No sign of intelligent life here. Beam me up, Scotty. Kirk out.”

Scott Stewart,

Charlotte, NC

BEST FEMALE SINGER

1.Linda Ronstadt

2.Patti Smith

3.KikiDee

4. Stevie Nicks

5.Grade Slick

6.Cherie Currie

7. Joni Mitchell

8. Olivia Newton-John

9. Joan Baez 10.Phoebe Snow

BEST R&B SINGER 1 .Stevie Wonder

2. Mick Jagger

3.David Bowie

4.BozScaggs

5.Rod Stewart

6. Peter Wolf

7.Robert Palmer

8.Eric Clapton

9.George Benson 10.Lou Rawls

BEST R&B GROUP 1 .Rolling Stones

2. Earth, Wind & Fire

3.J. GeilsBand

4. Parliament-F unkadelic

5. War

6.K.C. & the Sunshine Band

7.Hall & Oates

8. Average White Band

9. Spinners

10. Wild Cherry

BEST GUITARIST 1 ^Jimmy Page

2. Jeff Beck

3. Peter Fra mpton

4.Keith Richard

5.Ted Nugent

6.Eric Clapton

7.AceFrehley ,8.JoePerry 9.Brian May

10. Ritchie Black more

BEST KEYBOARD

1. Elton John

2. Kei th E merson

3.Rick Wakeman 4-Patrick Moraz

5.Billy Preston

6. John Paul Jones

7.Eno

8. Jon Lord

9. Edgar Winter 10.Nicky Hopkins

BEST BASSIST 1 .Paul McCajrtney

2.Gene Simmons

3. John Paul Jones

4.Bill Wyman

5.Chris Squire

6. John Entwhistle 7.Stanley Clarke

8.Tom Hamilton

9.Kenny Passarelli 10-John Deacon

BEST DRUMMER

1.Keith Moon

2.PeterCriss

3. John Bonham

4.Charlie Watts

5. Joey Kramer

6.RingoStarr

7.Nigel01sson

8. Albert Bouchard

9.Carl Palmer 10.Ginger Baker

BEST HORN PLAYER

1 .Andy Mackay

2. Janies Pankow

3.David Bowie

4.EdgarWinter

5.Clarence Clemmons

6.Bobby Keyes

7. John Entwhistle

8. David Sanborn

9. Doc Severinson lO.AlHirt

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

1. Jimmy Page

2. Peter Fra mpton

3. Ron Wood

4.Gene Simmons

5.Keith Richard

6.Eno

7.MickRonson 8.Steven Tyler

9. Peter T ownsend 10.David Bowie

BEST PRODUCER

1.Todd Rundgren

2. Jimmy Page

3. Gus Dudgeon

4.Frank Zappa

5.BobEzrin

6. Eddie Kramer

7.David Bowie

8. Jack Douglas

9.GlimmerTwins lO.JohnCale

WORST GROUP 1 .Bay City Rollers

2.Kiss

3.Runaways

4. Tubes

5. Elton John

6. Bachman T urner Overdrive

7.Lynyrd Skynyrd

8.Captain & Tennille

9. Black Oak Arkansas lO.Ramones

BEST SONGWRITER 1 .Elton John/ Bemie Taupin

2. Jimmy Page/Robert Plant

3.Keith Richard/Mick Jagger 4-Paul McCartney

5. Bob Dylan

6.Gene Simmons/Paul Stanley

7.PeterFrampton

8. David Bowie

9. Steven Tyler/ Joe Perry 10-Bruce Springsteen

BEST INSTRUMENTALIST

l.lan Anderson

2.ToddRundgren

3.Eno

4.RayCooper

5. Peter Frampton

6.Magic Dick

7. Peter Townshe nd

8.Mike Oldfield

9. Eddie Jobson

10. Papa John Creach

BEST NEW GROUP

1.Boston

2. Heart

3.Ramones

4. Runaways

5. Angel

6. Derringer V.Thin Lizzy

8.Orleans

9: Dwight TwiHey Band lO.Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

SUNDRY

DRUG OF THE YEAR

1.Marijuana

2. Alcohol

3. Cocaine

4.LSD

5.Quaaludes

6.THC

7. Boy H owdy! Beer

8. Television

9. Heroin

10.Valium

BIGGESTOISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR 1 .No Led Zeppelin Tonr

2. No Rolling Stones Tour

3. Elton John

4.Kiss

5. Alice Cooper

6.Election ’76

7.The Rock Music Awards

8. No Beatles Reunion

9.No Iggy Album

10.Deep Purple Breakup

MOST PATHETIC

1.Elton John

2. Bay City Rollers

3. Kiss

4. Jimmy Carter

5. Runaways

6. Alice Cooper

7.Patti Smith

8.The Fonz

9.David Bowie

10.The Rock Music Awards

HERO/HEROINE OF THE YEAR 1 .Peter Frampton

2.Patti Smith

3.David Bowie

4.Elton John ■

5.Ted Nugent

6 .Gene Simmons

7 Jimmy Carter

8. Steven Tyler

9.Chevy Chase

10.Paul McCartney

COMEBACK OF THE YEAR 1 .Peter Frampton

2.Fleetwood Mac

3. Steve Miller

4.Ted Nugent

5.Blue Oyster Cult

6. Robert Plant

7.BobSeger

8.Brian Wilson

9. Alice Cooper

lO.BozScaggs

SEX OBJECT OF THE YEAR 1 .Peter Frampton

2.LindaRonstadt 3.Steven Tyler

4. Paul Stanley

5.DavidBowi

6.Patti Smith

7.Mick Jagger

8. Farrah Fawcett-Majors

9.Elton John

10.Roger Daltrey

“...Summed up in one word: FRAMPTON” Gail Goolgasian, Pawtucket, RI

FASHION PLATE OF THE YEAR

1.David Bowie

2.Bryan Ferry

3.Elton John

4. Steven Tyler

5. Patti Smith

6.Cher

7.Rod Stewart

8. Pete r Fra mpton

9.Gene Simmons

10.Mick Jagger »

FAD OF THE YEAR

1.Kiss

2.Punk Rock 3.Sejc

4. Disco “Shit”-

5.Getting High

6. CB Radios

7.Mary Hartman

8.The Fonz .9.Frye Boots

10. Peter Frampton

ALBUM COVER OF THE YEAR 1 .Destroyer (Kiss)

2.Presence (Lea Zeppelin)

3.Spitfire (Jefferson Starship)

4.Hasten Down the Wind (Linda Ronstadt)

5.2122 (Rush)

6. A Night On the Town (Rod Stewart)

7.Ramones (Ramones)

8. Black and Blue (Rolling Stones)

9.Boston (Boston)

10.Rainbow Rising

(Ritchie Blackmore)

“American Rocic finally became more important than British”

Gene Simmons, Newark, NY

CRITIC OF THE YEAR 1 .Lester Bangs

2.LisaRobinson

3.Robert Duncan

4.JaanUhelszki

5. Robert Christgau

6. Cameron Crc

7.Billy Altman

8.Dave Marsh

9. Lenny Kaye

10.Robert Hilburn

TV SHOW OF THE YEAR 1.Saturday Night

2. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

3. Starsky & Hutch

4. The Gong Show

5.The Captain &Tennille

6.M.A.S.H.

7. Star Trek

8.Rhoda

9.Barretta

10.One Day At A Time

COUPLE OF THE YEAR 1 .Rod Stewart &

Britt Eldand

2. Cher & Gregg Allman

3. David Bowie & Iggy Pop

4.Paul & Linda McCartney

5. David & Angie Bowie

6. Mick & Bianca Jagger

7.Flo & Eddie

8.Peter Frampton &

Penny McCall

9.Toni & Daryl Dragon

10.Leon & Mary Russell

BEST ROCK’N’ROLL MOVIE

1.The Song Remains the'Same

2. The Man Who Fell To Earth

3.Tommy

4. Silent Movie

5. Car Wash

6.Yessongs

7.Tunnelvision

8.E.L.P.

9.TheOmen

10. Logan’s Run

“ft was a killer year!”

Laura Siviter, Garden City, MI

RIP-OFF OF THE YEAR 1 .Concert Prices

2.Record Prices

3.The Rock Music Awards

4.Kiss

5.Runaways

6.CREEM

7. Disco

S.Gasoline 9-Dope Prices 10. Bicentennial

PUNK OF THE YEAR 1 .Steven Tyler

2.Lou Reed

3. Elton John

4.Patti Smith

5.TheRamones 6.,Ted Nugent

7.Lester Bangs

8.Gene Simmons

9.The Fonz

10.Keith Richard