“Back then, you would tag things with ‘city,’” recalled Big Star drummer Jody Stephens on the naming of the band’s now-classic Radio City album. “If you’re in a rock ’n’ roll band, it’s ‘rock city.’ If something bad happened, it was ‘drag city.’ We all thought this was a radio-friendly album, so — Radio City.”
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Big Star’s Radio City LP was released 49 years ago, Feb. 1974.