69 was one of the best.
Woodstock
Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left
Crosby, Stills, Nash
Jimmy Cliff
Led Zeppelin
The Band
Neil Young’s Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
The Meters
Stand - Sly & The Family Stone.
I’ll stop now.
Bowie, Space Oddity
The Stooges, I wanna be your dog
Even Elvis Presley had Suspicious Minds that year.
One of my faves from 1969
And just to confound all these bands, the Archies single Sugar sugar is the best selling single of the year. 
This is a Lennon influenced track any day of the week.
Don’t care what anyone else says, Billy Joel is one of the best song-writers ever . He has written songs that a lot of people don’t realise is him
This is just it
Yep, very talented man. Anthony’s Song (Movin’ Out) was my favourite of his. “We didn’t start the Fire” reminds me of yellow ribboned away days going up the M1 and/or the M6… on the march with “Georgie’s Army”.
I push-back at anyone who uses the phrase “Guilty pleasure”. Love what you love.
He even writes songs that aren’t even his, channeling his inner Beethoven
He’s a top song writer.
If you haven’t heard them, The Stranger and Nylon Curtain are amazing albums.