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Bridge over Troubled Water is the

fifth and final studio album bySimon and Garfunkel. Firstreleased on January 26, 1970, itreached No. 1 on Billboard MusicCharts pop albums list. It won aGrammy Award for Album of the

 Year, as well as for BestEngineered Recording, while itstitle track won the Grammy Awardfor Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the Grammy Awards of 1971.

Let It Be is the twelfth U.K album,the nineteenth U.S. album, and thefinal original album released by TheBeatles. It was released on 8 May1970 by the band's Apple Recordslabel shortly after the group's

announced breakup.

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 Abraxas is the second album by Santana, the Latin

rock n' roll group led by guitarist Carlos Santana.Consolidating their live success at the WoodstockFestival in 1969, and the interest generated by theirfirst album the band took some time to issue a follow-up. Released in September 1970, the album's mix of rock, blues, jazz, salsa and other influences made it a

classic that defined Santana's early sound, andshowed a musical maturation from their first album.

 All Things Must Pass is a triple album byGeorge Harrison recorded and released

after the break-up of The Beatles. The firsttriple album by a solo artist, the originalvinyl release featured two records of rocksongs, while the third, entitled "Apple Jam"was composed of informal jams led byHarrison with musician friends and otherfamous musicians.

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Cosmo's Factory is the fifth album by

American band Creedence ClearwaterRevival, released in 1970. The peak of a prolific streak, Cosmo's Factory  was Creedence's fifth album in less than twoyears. It was a major commercial success,reaching #1 on the Billboard Pop Albumschart, and spawning three top-5 singles;"Lookin' Out My Back Door" (US #2),"Travelin' Band" (US #2), and "Up Around theBend" (US #4) were all big hits.

Déjà Vu is the second album by rock band Crosby,Stills & Nash, and their first as Crosby, Stills, Nash& Young, released on March 11, 1970. Thepremiere CSN collaboration with Neil Young wasgreatly anticipated after the popularity of itspredecessor, as well as due to the addition of  Young to the lineup; it hit #1 on the Billboard 200album chart, generating three Top 40 singles inthe process: "Teach Your Children," "Our House,"

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Paranoid is the second album by theBritish heavy metal band BlackSabbath, released in September 1970through Vertigo Records. The albumconsists of some of the band's mostreadily identifiable work including

"Iron Man", "War Pigs" and the titletrack.

 After the Gold Rush is the third

album by Neil Young, and one of fourhigh-profile albums released by eachpartner of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping Déjà Vu album of 1970.

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McCartney is the first solo album byPaul McCartney and was released in1970. It is notable for the fact thatMcCartney, a multi-instrumentalist,performed the entire album (allinstruments and voices) by himself,

except for some backing vocals fromhis first wife, Linda McCartney.

Tea for the Tillerman is a highly-

regarded album by singer-songwriterCat Stevens. This album, Stevens'second during 1970, includes many of Stevens' most memorable andbeloved songs by his fans, including"Where Do the Children Play?," "Hard

Headed Woman," "Wild World," "SadLisa," "Into White" and "Father and

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