I agree with @markmoskow ...I think '72 was great too. After than yeah, a long decline.  I mean, disco hit in the mid-70s, rock music had died by the mid-1980s, now it seems "popular" music is just a vehicle to sell singer branded merch and make them rich. It isn't even about the music. They become a "brand" that people want to associate themselves with...women buying handbags and perfumes with "Taylor" on them and all that. 

I mean listen to any average radio station today. It isn't the 1960s or 1970s anymore.  Different strokes for different folks.  I'm glad to have been able to take it all in from around 1965 till now and watch it (and hear it) zig and zag and change and move.  

But I think my interest in jazz (from all eras) is a reflection that rock is dead. 

I was born in 1958.  That is an impressive list that the OP compiled.  Music was very important to me and I definitely felt a few years later as if popular music had lost itself, and I drifted into Classical

Ignore the relativists- the list is correct, if incomplete. I’m not a boomer- history will confirm 1971 as the peak year in cultural history, warts and all!

PS 1973 comes close- I buy albums from then blind and am usually amazed at their great sound and energy.

@tony1954

Yes, my bad, should have seen those, not sure how I missed them!

@moonwatcher 

But I think my interest in jazz (from all eras) is a reflection that rock is dead. 

I was led to Jazz by "jazzy" Rock and by the fact that I grew bored with Rock's melodic and harmonic limitations. The liner noted in one of the many reissues of "Kind of Blue" mentioned that the Allman Bros.were avid fans of modal Jazz. Listening to them and the Dead seemed to ease the way for me into Jazz. 

I don't tend to think of Rock as "dead" anymore than I regard Jazz as "dead". As long as there are recordings in these genres I enjoy, that's "alive" enough for me. I don't see where Rock could've gone. Punk attempted to drag it away from corporate slickness and Steely Dan probably took it as far in a Jazz direction as possible without it crossing over into Fusion.