Yesterday Once More: Digging the Fifties Revival in the 1970s

ANY GOOD STUDENT of pop-music history knows what happened in the 1970s: The broken bricks from the aesthetic street-fights of the '60s were scooped up and mortared into a new edifice, "rock", which housed art- and prog-rock, heavy metal, sententious singer-songwriters and grey-faced corporate music. Then, in 1976, punk arrived and blew it all up real good, reinvigorating rock 'n roll.