They were a huge group in the 70s. Their songs "You Made Me So Very Happy," "Spinning Wheel," and "And When I Die" were the very soundtrack of the early decade.
And then…? Gone.
The documentary "What The Hell Happened to BS&T?" answers the question with current-day interviews and plenty of previously suppressed period footage. The short answer is they got steamrollered by a US State Department-sponsored tour of Romania, but the long answer adds music business machinations, hazards of sudden stardom, band politics, and backlash from both the lefties like Abbie Hoffman and right-wing pols, like President Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
Hey, man, it was the 70s!
