1973 in music
Events
January-February
January 9 - Mick Jagger 's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones ' plans to perform in Japan during their upcoming tour of Hawaii , Australia and New Zealand.
January 13 - Aerosmith make their debut by releasing the album Aerosmith
January 14 - Elvis Presley 's Aloha From Hawaii television special is seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewers
January 14 - Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is arrested for drug possession in California .
January 18 - The Rolling Stones ' benefit concert for Nicaraguan earthquake victims raises over $350,000. (Mick Jagger adds $150,000 of his own money to the total in May). On December 22, 1972, an earthquake destroyed Managua , the capital of Nicaragua.
January 21 - The Rolling Stones open their tour of Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand in Honolulu, Hawaii .
January 30 - Kiss performs their first concert, at the Coventary Club in Queens.
February 14 - David Bowie collapses from exhaustion after a performance at New York's Madison Square Garden
March-April
March 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet 's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys .
March 5 - Jimi Hendrix 's former personal manager, Michael Jeffery , is killed in a plane crash. Jeffery was travelling from Majorca to England. All passengers on board the plane were killed.
March 6 - The New York Office of the US Immigration Department cancels John Lennon 's visa extension, after it having been granted five days earlier.
March 7 - The director of talent acquisition at Columbia Records , John H. Hammond suffers a non-fatal heart attack following a performance by one of his most recent finds, Bruce Springsteen .
March 8 - Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm.
March 24 - Lou Reed is bitten on the ass by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, New York .
March 25 - Pink Floyd releases the landmark album The Dark Side of the Moon
March 28 - Led Zeppelin releases Houses of the Holy The Song Remains the Same
April 3 - Capitol Records releases two collections of The Beatles ' greatest hits, The Beatles 1962-1966 The Beatles 1967-1970
April 16 - Paul McCartney 's first television special, James Paul McCartney actually airs on television! The special includes performances by McCartney and Wings.
Opening of CBGB's
May-July
May 4 - July 29 - Led Zeppelin embarks on a highly lucrative tour of the United States. During the tour they set the record for highest attendance for a concert, 56,800, at the Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. A record previously held by The Beatles . Performances for the movie The Song Remains the Same
August-September-October
December
31st (New Year's Eve) Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young perform at the former Sydney nightclub 'Chequers' for their New Year's Eve party. They do so under the name 'AC/DC'
Also in 1973
Albums released
Abandoned Luncheonette Hall and Oates The Adventures of Panama Red The New Riders of the Purple Sage Aerosmith Aerosmith African Herbsman Bob Marley and the Wailers After the Ball - John Fahey Afrodisiac - Fela Kuti Aladdin Sane David Bowie All American Boy - Rick Derringer Aloha from Hawaii: Via Satellite Elvis Presley America's Choice Hot Tuna Angel Clare Art Garfunkel Angel's Egg Gong Anthology - Quicksilver Messenger Service Any Day Now - Scott Walker Any Old Wind That Blows Johnny Cash Ashes Are Burning Renaissance Ass Badfinger At the Rainbow Focus Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive (debut)Bachman-Turner Overdrive II Bananamour Kevin Ayers Band on the Run Paul McCartney and Wings Barry Manilow I Barry Manilow (debut)Basic Miles Miles Davis The Beatles 1962-1966 The Beatles The Beatles 1967-1970 The Beatles Beck Bogert Appice Jeff Beck Behind Closed Doors Charlie Rich Berlin Lou Reed The Best of Top of the Pops '73 Top of the Poppers Bette Midler Bette Midler Better Days Paul Butterfield Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper Birds of Fire Mahavishnu Orchestra Blackboard Jungle Dub Lee Perry Black Caesar James Brown Bloodshot The J. Geils Band The Blue Ridge Rangers John Fogerty (solo debut)Boulders Roy Wood Brain Salad Surgery Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brothers and Sisters The Allman Brothers Band Burnin' Bob Marley & the Wailers Byrds The Byrds Canto Por Travesura Víctor Jara Call Me Al Green The Captain and Me The Doobie Brothers Catch a Fire Bob Marley & the Wailers Chicago VI Chicago Closer To It - Brian Auger Closing Time McCoy Tyner Closing Time Tom Waits Comin' Atcha Madeline Bell Comin' Right At Ya - Asleep at the Wheel Conference of the Birds Dave Holland Cosmic Slop Funkadelic Cosmic Wheels Donovan Countdown to Ecstasy Steely Dan Country Casanova Commander Cody Crazy Eyes Poco Cyan Three Dog Night Daltrey Roger Daltrey The Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd Deliver the Word War Desperado Eagles Diamond Girl Seals and Crofts Diana & Marvin Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye Dion & The Belmonts Reunion - Dion DiMucci & the BelmontsDixie Chicken Little Feat Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player Elton John Double Diamond - If Dreams are Nuthin' More than Wishes - David Cassidy Drift Away Dobie Gray Dueling Banjos Eric Weissberg and Steve MandelDylan Bob Dylan Electric Jewels April Wine ELO 2 Electric Light Orchestra Elvis Elvis Presley The End Nico Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert Eric Clapton Essence to Essence Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music Billy Preston Facets - Miles Davis Fanfare for the Warriors - The Art Ensemble of ChicagoFantasy Carole King Fare Forward Voyagers - John Fahey Farewell to Paradise Emitt Rhodes The Faust Tapes Faust Felona e Sorona Le Orme The First Songs - Laura Nyro Flying Teapot Gong Focus III - Focus Foghat Foghat For Everyman Jackson Browne For Your Pleasure Roxy Music Foreigner Cat Stevens 4 The Chieftains Four Sider - Herb Alpert Four Tops Story - The Four Tops Frampton's Camel Peter Frampton Fresh Sly & the Family Stone Full Sail Loggins and Messina Funky Kingstown - Toots and The Maytals Future Days Can Genesis Live Genesis Gentlemen - Fela Kuti Gimme Something Real - Ashford & Simpson Goats Head Soup The Rolling Stones Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John The Gospel Road Johnny Cash GP Gram Parsons Grand Hotel Procol Harum Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band (debut)Hank Wilson's Back - Leon Russell Hard Nose the Highway Van Morrison Hat Trick America Hello! Status Quo Head Hunters Herbie Hancock Head to the Sky - Earth, Wind and Fire Heartbreaker Free Hello! Status Quo Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) Aretha Franklin History of the Grateful Dead Volume One (Bear's Choice) - The Grateful Dead Holland The Beach Boys Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings Houses of the Holy Led Zeppelin The Human Menagerie Cockney Rebel I Love Dixie Blues, So I Recorded Live In New Orleans - Merle Haggard I'm a Writer Not a Fighter - Gilbert O'Sullivan Icarus Paul Winter Imagination Gladys Knight & the Pips In A Glass House Gentle Giant In Concert Derek and The Dominos In the Right Place Dr. John Innervisions Stevie Wonder Inside Eloy Inside Out John Martyn It All Comes Back - Paul Butterfield It's Only a Movie Family IV Faust Jazz Grooves - King Curtis Johnny Cash and His Woman Johnny Cash Join Inn Ash Ra Tempel The Joker Steve Miller Band Jonathan Livingston Seagull Neil Diamond Joy Isaac Hayes Julien - DalidaJust Rock and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets Killing Me Softly Roberta Flack Kracker Brand - KrackerLadies Invited The J. Geils Band Larks Tongues in Aspic King Crimson Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys Arlo Guthrie Last Train to Hicksville - Dan Hicks and his Hot LicksLeon Live! - Leon Russell Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye Life in a Tin Can The Bee Gees A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night Harry Nilsson Live 1973 Gram Parsons and The Fallen AngelsLive at the Rainbow - Focus Live in Europe (CCR album) - Creedence Clearwater Revival Live in Japan: Spring Tour 1973 Living in the Material World George Harrison The London Bo Diddley Sessions - Bo Diddley Long Hard Climb - Helen Reddy Los Cochinos Cheech & Chong Love Devotion Surrender Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin Lucy & Carly - The Simon Sisters Sing for Children The Simon Sisters Made in Japan Deep Purple Main Street People - The Four Tops Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer Papa Used to Write All Her Songs Sonny & Cher Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur Marjory Razorblade' - Kevin Coyne The Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band Masterpiece The Temptations Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh Magma Merle Haggards Christmas Present (Something Old, Something New) - Merle Haggard Milagre Dos Peixes - Milton Nascimento Mind Games John Lennon Moondog Matinee The Band The Morning After Maureen McGovern Muscle of Love Alice Cooper Music and Me Micheal Jackson My Tennessee Mountain Home Dolly Parton Mystery to Me Fleetwood Mac Neu! 2 Neu! Never Turn Your Back On a Friend Budgie New Age - Canned Heat New York Dolls New York Dolls Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall Ella Fitzgerald Night Vision - Bruce Cockburn (No Pussyfooting) Robert Fripp and Brian Eno No Ruinous Feud Incredible String Band Now and Then The Carpenters Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Frank Sinatra On the Third Day Electric Light Orchestra On the Road to Freedom Alvin Lee Ooh La La Faces Ooh So Good 'N' Blues - Taj Mahal The Original Tap Dance Kid - Jimmie Spheeris Over-Nite Sensation Frank Zappa Painter - Painter Paris 1919 John Cale A Passion Play Jethro Tull Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Bob Dylan Penguin Fleetwood Mac Piano Man Billy Joel Pieces of a Man Gil Scott-Heron Pin Ups Pipedream Alan Hull The Phosphorescent Rat Hot Tuna Planxty Planxty Please Don't Ever Change - Brinsley Schwarz The Pointer Sisters The Pointer Sisters Precious Lord: New Recordings of the Great Songs of Thomas A. Dorsey Preservation: Act 1 The Kinks Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash Mike Nesmith Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd Lynyrd Skynyrd (debut)Quadrophenia The Who Queen Queen (debut)Ragas Ravi Shankar Rainbow - McGuinness Flint Rainbow - Neil Diamond Rainshine - Edwards Hand Raised on Rock/For Ol' Times Sake Elvis Presley Raw Power The Stooges Razamanaz Nazareth Red Rose Speedway Renaissance The Miracles Rendezvous Sandy Denny Ridin' The Storm Out REO Speedwagon Rigor Mortis Sets In John Entwhistle Ring Ring ABBA Rock and Roll All Night Long - Hurriganes Roger McGuinn Roger McGuinn Roll on Ruby - Lindisfarne Rosie Fairport Convention Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath Second Album - Roy Buchanan Selling England by the Pound Genesis Separate Ways Elvis Presley Sextant Herbie Hancock Shades of a Blue Orphanage - Thin Lizzy Ship Ahoy The O'Jays Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory Traffic Shotgun Willie Willie Nelson Sing It Again, Rod - Rod Stewart The Singer Liza Minnelli Sings In Italian For You - Dalida The Six Wives of Henry VIII Rick Wakeman Slaughter's Big Rip-Off - James Brown The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get Joe Walsh Smokes - Lynyrd Skynyrd Smokey Smokey Robinson Sold America - Kinky Friedman Solid Air John Martyn Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne - Keith Jarret Space Ritual Hawkwind Starring Rosi Ash Ra Tempel Stranded Roxy Music Stretch Scott Walker Styx II Styx Sunday Morning Coming Down Johnny Cash Suzi Quatro - Suzi Quatro The Sweet Sweet Sweet Freedom Uriah Heep Sweet Revenge John Prine Take Love Easy Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass Takin' My Time Bonnie Raitt Tales from Topographic Oceans Yes Tanx T. Rex 10cc 10cc There Goes Rhymin' Simon Paul Simon These Foolish Things Bryan Ferry Thirty Seconds Over Winterland Jefferson Airplane 3 + 3 Isley Brothers Time Fades Away Neil Young Tommy As Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir - London Symphony Orchestra Totally Instrumental with One Exception - Merle Haggard Touch Me Gary Glitter Touch Me in the Morning Diana Ross Tower of Power Tower of Power Tres Hombres ZZ Top Triumvirate - Mike Bloomfield Tropical Appetites - Carla Bley True Stories and Other Dreams Judy Collins Try It Before You Buy It - Mike Bloomfield Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield Tyranny and Mutation Blue Öyster Cult Uriah Heep Live Uriah Heep Virtuoso Joe Pass Wake of the Flood The Grateful Dead We Still Ain't Got No Band - The Persuasions Welcome Santana The Well Below the Valley - Planxty We're All Together for the First Time - Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan We're An American Band Grand Funk Railroad Where Are You Now, My Son? Joan Baez Whirlwind Tongues Bloodrock A White Sports Coat and a Pink Crustacean - Jimmy Buffett Who Do We Think We Are Deep Purple Wild and Peaceful Kool & the Gang Wild Tales Graham Nash The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle Bruce Springsteen Wishbone Four Wishbone Ash A Wizard, a True Star Todd Rundgren Wizzard Brew Wizzard Workshop - NRBQ Yessongs
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions
in the charts of 1973.
# Artist Title Year
Country
Chart Entries
1
The Rolling Stones Angie 1973
US BB 1 - Sep 1973, Canada 1 - Sep 1973, Holland 1 - Sep 1973, France 1 - Sep 1973, Switzerland 1 - Sep 1973, Norway 1 - Oct 1973, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jun 1974, Australia Goset 1 - Oct 1973, Europe 3 of the 1970s, Germany 4 - Jan 1974, Belgium 4 of all time, UK 5 - Sep 1973, Italy 6 of 1974, Austria 8 - Oct 1973, DDD 11 of 1973, Australia 19 of 1973, RYM 27 of 1973, Poland 43 of all time, Scrobulate 51 of ballad, US CashBox 69 of 1973, OzNet 71, Germany 190 of the 1970s, WXPN 571, Acclaimed 1093
2
Tony Orlando & Dawn Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'round the Old Oak Tree 1973
UK 1 - Mar 1973, US BB 1 - Mar 1973, US CashBox 1 of 1973, Canada 1 - Mar 1973, Holland 1 - Apr 1973, Norway 1 - May 1973, Australia 1 of 1973, Éire 1 - Apr 1973, Australia 1 for 7 weeks Dec 1973, Australia Goset 1 - May 1973, Austria 2 - Jun 1973, France 3 - Apr 1973, Germany 10 - Jun 1973, South Africa 10 of 1973, US BB 11 of 1973, TOTP 14, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1973, POP 36 of 1973, DDD 88 of 1973
3
The Sweet The Ballroom Blitz 1973
Canada 1 - Aug 1975, France 1 - Oct 1973, Éire 1 - Sep 1973, Australia Goset 1 - Nov 1973, UK 2 - Sep 1973, Norway 2 - Oct 1973, Switzerland 3 - Sep 1973, Germany 3 - Jan 1974, Holland 4 - Sep 1973, US BB 5 - Aug 1975, Austria 5 - Nov 1973, Australia 9 of 1974, Scrobulate 9 of glam rock, US BB 11 of 1975, RYM 15 of 1973, POP 30 of 1975, US CashBox 46 of 1975, DDD 51 of 1973, Germany 137 of the 1970s, TheQ 188, OzNet 217, Acclaimed 2373
4
Elton John Crocodile Rock 1973
US BB 1 - Dec 1972, Canada 1 - Dec 1972, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1973, Italy 1 of 1973, Australia Goset 2 - Jan 1973, Norway 3 - Feb 1973, US CashBox 4 of 1973, Germany 4 - Jan 1973, UK 5 - Nov 1972, Australia 5 of 1973, Austria 6 - Feb 1973, France 9 - Dec 1972, POP 9 of 1973, Holland 12 - Dec 1972, OzNet 12, US BB 16 of 1973, RYM 26 of 1972, DDD 27 of 1972, Germany 223 of the 1970s, Acclaimed 2325
5
Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly With His Song 1973
US BB 1 - Feb 1973, Canada 1 - Feb 1973, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Nov 1973, Australia Goset 1 - Mar 1973, Grammy in 1973, Holland 3 - Feb 1973, Norway 4 - Aug 1973, France 5 - Apr 1973, UK 6 - Feb 1973, DDD 8 of 1973, Australia 17 of 1973, Austria 19 - Dec 1973, US CashBox 21 of 1973, RYM 25 of 1973, Switzerland 32 - Oct 1996, RIAA 101, Rolling Stone 360, Acclaimed 631, OzNet 863
Other selected hit singles
"5:15 " - The Who
"Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got) " - The Four Tops
"All I Know" - Art Garfunkel
"All the Way from Memphis " - Mott the Hoople
"Alright Alright Alright" - Mungo Jerry
"Angel Fingers" - Wizzard
"Angie " - The Rolling Stones
"Are You Man Enough" - The Four Tops
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown " - Jim Croce
"The Ballroom Blitz " - The Sweet
"Basketball Jones " - Cheech and Chong
"Be" - Neil Diamond
"Behind Closed Doors " - Charlie Rich
"Blinded By the Light " - Bruce Springsteen
"Blockbuster! " - The Sweet
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " - Bette Midler
"Call Me (Come Back Home)" - Al Green
"Candle in the Wind " - Elton John
"Caroline" - Status Quo
"China Grove " - The Doobie Brothers
"The Cisco Kid " - War
"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love " - The Spinners
"Cum on Feel the Noize " - Slade
"Daddy's Home" - Jermaine Jackson
"Daisy a Day" - Jud Strunk
"Dancing in the Moonlight" - King Harvest
"Daniel " - Elton John
"Delta Dawn " - Helen Reddy
"Diamond Girl " - Seals and Crofts
"Do It Again " - Steely Dan
"Do You Wanna Dance" - Barry Blue
"Do You Wanna Dance?" - Bette Midler
"Do You Wanna Touch Me" - Gary Glitter
"Don't Expect Me to be Your Friend" - Lobo
"Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" - James Taylor
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) - The Rolling Stones
"Dream On " - Aerosmith
"Drive-in Saturday" - David Bowie
"D'yer Mak'er " - Led Zeppelin
"Elected" - Alice Cooper
"Eye Level" - Simon Park Orchestra
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day " - Chicago
"Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Group
"Get Down" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road " - Elton John
"Gypsy Man" - War
"Half-Breed " - Cher
"Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat" - DeFranco Family
"Helen Wheels " - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Hellraiser" - The Sweet
"Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again" - Gary Glitter
"Hello, Hooray" - Alice Cooper
"Hello, It's Me" - Todd Rundgren
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" - Al Green
"Hi, Hi, Hi" - Wings
"Higher Ground " - Stevie Wonder
"Hocus Pocus" - Focus
"I Believe In You (You Believe in Me)" - Johnny Taylor
"I Got a Name" - Jim Croce
"I Love You Love Me Love" - Gary Glitter
"I Wanna Be With You" - The Raspberries
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Wizzard
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby " - Barry White
"I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" - The Moody Blues
"I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)" - Gary Glitter
"I've Got to Use My Imagination" - Gladys Knight & The Pips
"If You Don't Know Me By Now " - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
"If You Want Me To Stay" - Sly and The Family Stone
"Il es tu" (French version of "Touch the Wind") - Mocedades
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" - John Fogerty
"The Jean Genie " - David Bowie
"Jessica " - The Allman Brothers
"Jimmy Loves Mary Ann" - Looking Glass
"The Joker " - Steve Miller Band
"Just You 'N' Me " - Chicago
"Keep On Truckin' " - Eddie Kendricks
"Keeper of the Castle" - The Four Tops
"Killing Me Softly with His Song " - Roberta Flack
"Kodachrome " - Paul Simon
"Lamplight" - David Essex
"Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)" - Helen Reddy
"Let It Ride" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"Let's Get It On " - Marvin Gaye
"Let Me Be There " - Olivia Newton John
"Life on Mars" - David Bowie
"Live and Let Die " - Wings
"Living For the City " - Stevie Wonder
"Long Train Runnin' " - The Doobie Brothers
"Love Train " - The O'Jays
"Loves Me Like a Rock " - Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds )
"Mama Loo" - Les Humphries Singers
"Masterpiece" - The Temptations
"Me and Mrs. Jones " - Billy Paul
"Merry Xmas Everybody" - Slade
"Midnight Train to Georgia " - Gladys Knight and The Pips
"Midnight Rider " - Gregg Allman
"Mind Games " - John Lennon
"Money " - Pink Floyd
"The Morning After " - Maureen McGovern
"the Most Beautiful Girl " - Charlie Rich
"My Coo-Ca-Choo" - Alvin Stardust
"My Love" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"My Music " - Loggins and Messina
"Natural High" - Bloodstone
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia " - Vicki Lawrence
"No More Mr. Nice Guy " - Alice Cooper
"Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina Turner
"Oh, Babe, What Would You Say" - Hurricane Smith
"One of a Kind (Love Affair)" - The Spinners
"Painted Ladies " - Ian Thomas
"Photograph" - Ringo Starr
"Playground in My Mind" - Clint Holmes
"Ramblin' Man " - Allman Brothers Band
"Reelin' in the Years " - Steely Dan
"Relay" - The Who
"Right Place Wrong Time" - Dr. John
"The Right Thing To Do" - Carly Simon
"Rocky Mountain High " - John Denver
"Rocky Mountain Way " - Joe Walsh
"Roll Over Beethoven " - Electric Light Orchestra
"Rubber Bullets " - 10cc
"Sail On Sailor" - The Beach Boys
"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting " - Elton John
"See My Baby Jive" - Wizzard
"Shambala" - Three Dog Night
"Show and Tell" - Al Wilson
"Sing " - The Carpenters
"Sitting" - Cat Stevens
"Smoke on the Water " - Deep Purple
"Sorrow" - David Bowie
"Soul Makossa " - Manu Dibango
"Space Race " - Billy Preston
"Stir It Up " - Johnny Nash
"Stuck In the Middle With You " - Stealer's Wheel
"Superstition " - Stevie Wonder
"Sylvia" - Focus (band)
"Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - Paul Simon
"Tequila Sunrise " - Eagles
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree " - Tony Orlando & Dawn
"Time " - Pink Floyd
"Time in a Bottle " - Jim Croce
"That Lady, Pt. 1 & 2 " - The Isley Brothers
"The Dean And I" - 10cc
"Top of the World " - The Carpenters
"Touch Me in the Morning " - Diana Ross
"Trouble Man" - Marvin Gaye
"Tu Te Reconnaitras " (Wonderful Dream) - Anne-Marie David (Eurovision winner)
"We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" - Seals and Crofts
"Whisky in the Jar " - Thin Lizzy
"Why Me " - Kris Kristofferson
"Wildflower" - Skylark
"Will It Go Around in Circles" - Billy Preston
"The World Is A Ghetto" - War
"Yesterday Once More " - The Carpenters
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life " - Stevie Wonder
"You're So Vain " - Carly Simon
"Your Mama Don't Dance " - Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina
"Touch of Magic " - James Leroy
Published popular music
"Misdemeanor" Foster Sylvers
Classical music
Opera
Musical theater
Musical films
Births
January 1 - DJ Shadow , DJ
January 8 - Sean Paul , reggae and dancehall artist
January 10 - Aerle Taree , Arrested Development
January 12 - Matt Wong , Reel Big Fish
February 21 - Justin Sane , singer, guitarist and songwriter
March 17 - Caroline Corr , drummer
April 4 - Kelly Price
April 29 - Mike Hogan , The Cranberries
May 2 - Justin Burnett , film score composer
May 5 - Casino Versus Japan , electronic musician
May 14
May 17 - Joshua Homme , guitarist and vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age
June 9 - Wes Scantlin , Puddle of Mudd
June 10 - Faith Evans
June 23 - Marie N , Eurovision-winning singer
July 4 - Gackt , singer, songwriter, and musician
July 5 - Bengt Lagerberg , The Cardigans
July 11 - Andrew Bird , singer-songwriter
July 15 - Buju Banton , reggae/dancehall artist
July 25 - Ladybug , Digable Planets
July 29 - Wanya Morris , Boyz II Men
August 22
September 17 - Anastacia , singer
October 2 - Lene Nystrøm , Aqua
November 3 - Mick Thomson , guitarist for Slipknot
November 28 - Jade Puget (AFI )
December 8 - Corey Taylor , vocalist for Slipknot
December 11 - Mos Def , rapper
Deaths
January 16 - Clara Ward , gospel singer
January 23 - Kid Ory
February 3 - Andy Razaf
February 19 - Joseph Szigeti , violinist
March 5 - Michael Jeffery , Jimi Hendrix 's personal manager
March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan , Grateful Dead , stomach hemorrhage
March 26 - Noel Coward , composer
April 18 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith , US jazz pianist
May 21 - Vaughn Monroe , US singer and bandleader
July 3 - Betty Grable , US actress and singer
July 3 - Karel An?erl , conductor
July 6 - Otto Klemperer , conductor
July 14 - Clarence White , guitarist The Byrds
August 17 - Jean Barraqué , French classical composer
September 6 - William Henry Harris , organist and composer
September 16 - Víctor Jara , Chilean folk singer is murdered
September 17 - Hugo Winterhalter , US conductor and arranger
September 19 - Gram Parsons , guitarist/vocalist
September 20
October 16
October 22 - Pablo Casals , cellist
November 10 - Zeke Zettner , The stooges
November 11 - David "Stringbean" Akeman , US country musician
November 18 - Alois Hába , composer
November 27 - Frank Christian
December 20 - Bobby Darin , American singer, actor, entertainer, impressionist, comedian, T.V. presenter, musician, producer, director and writer. (b. 1936)
December 31 - Emile Christian
date unknown - Cäwdät Fäyzi , Tatar composer and folklorist
Awards
Grammy Awards
Country Music Association Awards
Eurovision Song Contest
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