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News Articles: Series: 50 Years Of NPR

A detail from the cover of David Bowie's album <em>Hunky Dory</em>, first released in 1971.

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  • Music

NPR 50: The long tail of David Bowie's explosive 'Hunky Dory'

Bowie was still an aspiring pop star, with but one successful single under his belt, at the time of Hunky Dory's release. It wouldn't last.

December 17, 2021
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
For years, <em>All in the Family</em> was the most popular show on television. It debuted in 1971. Carroll O'Connor, left, played Archie Bunker. Jean Stapleton played his wife, Edith Bunker.

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  • Television

'All in the Family' is 50 years old. A new book looks at how it changed TV

All in the Family creator Norman Lear, along with writer Jim Colucci, talked with NPR about Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton and their roles on the groundbreaking TV show.

November 02, 2021
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  • James Doubek,
  • Rachel Martin,
  • and 2 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Music News

John Prine's First Album Came Out The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming

NPR turns 50 this year, and we're marking it by looking back on some other things that happened in 1971. It was that year that songwriter John Prine released his debut album. Prine died in 2020.

September 24, 2021
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By:
  • Ann Powers
John Prine on the cover of his 1971 debut album.

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  • Music News

Join NPR Music's Listening Party For John Prine's Debut Album

John Prine's self-titled album came out 50 years ago. Bonnie Raitt, Jim Rooney, Fiona Prine and Jody Whelan guest in an online listening party with host Ann Powers on Sept. 23.

September 16, 2021
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
A crowd rallying for John Lennon, in a scene from the film <em>Imagine: John Lennon.</em>

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  • Music News

John Lennon Released 'Imagine' The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming

We're celebrating NPR's 50th anniversary by revisiting cultural milestones from 1971. On this day, 51 years ago, John Lennon's album Imagine — along with its utopian title track — was released.

September 09, 2021
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
The members of The Doors, from left to right: Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek (seated).

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  • Music News

The Doors' Jim Morrison Died In 1971, The Same Year NPR Debuted Original Programming

As part of NPR's 50th anniversary, we're looking back at other cultural milestones of 1971. That year The Doors released their final album L.A. Woman — and the band's lead singer Jim Morrison died.

September 03, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep

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  • Books

'The Lorax' Warned Us 50 Years Ago, But We Didn't Listen

Call it fate or an unfortunate coincidence that Dr. Seuss' eco-parable marks its 50th anniversary just as the United Nations releases a report on the dire consequences of human-induced climate change.

August 12, 2021
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Leon Russell perform at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.

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  • Music Features

How The Concert For Bangladesh Changed The Celebrity Fundraiser

Considered the first real act of great benevolence by the rock community, the Concert for Bangladesh was held 50 years ago, on August 1st, at Madison Square Garden in New York.

July 30, 2021
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Scott Saloway
Funkadelic is the result of George Clinton flirting with psychedelic music, a style he describes as "loud R&B."

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  • Music Features

Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain' At 50: R&B, Psychedelic Rock And A Black Guitarist's Cry

Aiming to make a record that fans would still listen to decades later, George Clinton and Funkadelic mixed R&B, psychedelic rock and a Black guitar hero's cry.

July 22, 2021
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Dark, dank and secluded, the Gomantong Cave is a four-star hotel for bats.

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  • Animals

The Best Of Bats: Favorite Pieces From The NPR Archive

We are marking 50 years of NPR with a look back at stories from the archive. For this collection, we take a look at our best stories on bats.

July 12, 2021
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By:
  • GPB Newsroom
The funk of "Shaft" came less from the plot, than from cool and commanding presence of its star, Richard Roundtree, who started his career as a model.

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  • Movies

Looking Back On The Legacy Of 'Shaft,' 50 Years Later

"Shaft" was released 50 years ago this week. The film heralded what came to be known as Blaxploitation cinema, a genre with a chequered legacy that also created inspired, Oscar-winning music.

July 02, 2021
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By:
  • Marc Rivers and
  • Bilal Qureshi
Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) in <em>The Wire</em>

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  • Television

How TV Dramas Informed And Misinformed Perceptions Of The War On Drugs

From Miami Vice, to The Wire, to Orange Is the New Black, scripted TV shows have had a serious and sometimes unrecognized impact on public attitudes about drugs in America.

June 21, 2021
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By:
  • Eric Deggans
Joni Mitchell's <em>Blue</em>, which turns 50 years old on June 22, 2021, is an inquiry into personal storytelling, a document of the process of sharing heartache that changes every time someone hears it.

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  • Music Features

Her Kind Of Blue: Joni Mitchell's Masterpiece At 50

How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?

June 20, 2021
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By:
  • Ann Powers
During the War on Drugs, the Brownsville neighborhood in New York City saw some of the highest rates of incarceration in the U.S., as Black and Hispanic men were sent to prison for lengthy prison sentences, often for low-level, nonviolent drug crimes.

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  • National

After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us?'

President Nixon called for an "all-out offensive" against drugs and addiction. The U.S. is now rethinking policies that led to mass incarceration and shattered families while drug deaths kept rising.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Brian Mann
The Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. housed the Democratic National Committee's headquarters in 1972.

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  • History

A Band Of Burglars: NPR's Best Watergate Stories

On June 17, 1972, a band of five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate Complex in D.C., after a failed attempt at wiretapping.

June 17, 2021
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