1973 in music

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Years in music:	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976
Centuries:	19th Century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976

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[edit] Events

[edit] 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 tour the Orient.
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 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

[edit] 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 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 by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, New York.
March 25 - Pink Floyd releases the landmark album Dark Side of the Moon.
April 3 - Capitol Records releases two collections of The Beatles' greatest hits, The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970 (commonly referred to as the "Red Album" and the "Blue Album", respectively).
April 16 - Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul McCartney airs. The special includes performances by McCartney and Wings.
Opening of CBGB's

[edit] May-July

May 9 - Mick Jagger adds $150,000 of his own money to the $350,000 raised by the Rolling Stones' January 18th benefit concert for the victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake.
May 25 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells, the first release on Richard Branson's newly launched Virgin label.
film The Sting revives interest in the ragtime music of Scott Joplin
June 13 - death of Russian composer German Okunev
July 3 - David Bowie 'retires' his stage persona 'Ziggy Stardust' in front of a shocked audience at the Hammersmith Odeon at the end of his British tour.
July 28 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival attended by 600,000 to see The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and the Grateful Dead.

[edit] August-September-October

October 13 - Family play their last concert at DeMontfort Hall at Leicester Polytechnic (now DeMontfort University) before splitting up for good. A farewell party at a local Holiday Inn after the show ends in a good-natured melee, with people jumping in or pushed into the motel pool.
October 20 - Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House.

[edit] Unknown Dates

Television forms
Journey forms
KISS forms
AC/DC forms
U.F.O. signs a contract with Chrysalis Records
The Ronettes break up, and Ronnie Bennett begins a solo career
The London Symphony Orchestra becomes the first British Orchestra to be invited to take part in the Salzburg Festival.
The Open Mind disbands
Australian pop/rock band Tin Tin disbands

[edit] Albums released

3+3 - Isley Brothers
A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren
Aerosmith - Aerosmith
African Herbsman - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite - Elvis Presley
Angel Clare - Art Garfunkel
Ass - Badfinger
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Berlin - Lou Reed
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Boulders - Roy Wood
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Call Me - Al Green—
Catch a Fire - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Closing Time - Tom Waits
Cosmic Wheels - Donovan
Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Dion & The Belmonts Reunion - Dion DiMucci & the Belmonts
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player - Elton John
Double Diamond - If
Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
ELO 2 - Electric Light Orchestra
Essence to Essence - Donovan
Felona e Sorona - Le Orme
Flying Teapot - Gong
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Fresh - Sly & the Family Stone
Future Days - Can (band)
Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
GP - Gram Parsons
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band (debut)
Hard Nose the Highway - Van Morrison
Hello - Status Quo
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Holland - The Beach Boys
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
It's Only a Movie - Family
Julien - Dalida
Just Rock and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
Kracker Brand - Kracker
Larks Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Life in a Tin Can - The Bee Gees
Live in Japan: Spring Tour 1973 - Donovan
Living In The Material World - George Harrison
Long Hard Climb - Helen Reddy
Lucy & Carly - The Simon Sisters Sing For Children - The Simon Sisters
Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh - Magma
Mind Games - John Lennon
Muscle of Love - Alice Cooper
Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - Budgie
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall - Ella Fitzgerald
Now and Then - Carpenters
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back - Frank Sinatra
On the Third Day - Electric Light Orchestra
Over-Nite Sensation - Frank Zappa
Paris 1919 - John Cale
Pin Ups - David Bowie
Pipedream - Alan Hull
Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Quadrophenia - The Who
Queen - Queen (debut)
Ragas - Ravi Shankar
Rainbow - McGuinness Flint
Raw Power - The Stooges
Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney and Wings
Ring Ring - ABBA
Roll On Ruby - Lindisfarne
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Sings In Italian For You - Dalida
Smokes - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Stranded - Roxy Music
Take Love Easy - Ella Fitzgerald
Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes
Touch Me - Gary Glitter
Yessongs - Yes
The Captain and Me - The Doobie Brothers
The End - Nico
The Faust Tapes - Faust (band)
The Harder They Come - Original Soundtrack
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
They Only Come Out At Night - Edgar Winter Group
Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Expolsive Hits '73 - Various Artists
Welcome - Santana
Whirlwind Tongues - Bloodrock
Who Do We Think We Are - Deep Purple
Wishbone Four - Wishbone Ash
Wizzard Brew - Wizzard
Time Fades Away - Neil Young

[edit] Top hits on record

"5:15" - The Who
"All the Way from Memphis" - Mott The Hoople
"Alright Alright Alright" - Mungo Jerry
"Angel Fingers" - Wizzard
"Angie " - The Rolling Stones
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
"Ballroom Blitz" - The Sweet
"Block Buster" - The Sweet
"Cassandra" - Sherbet
"The Cisco Kid" - War
"Cum on Feel the Noize" - Slade
"Delta Dawn" - Helen Reddy
"Do You Wanna Dance" - Barry Blue
"Do You Wanna Touch Me" - Gary Glitter
"D'yer Mak'er" - Led Zeppelin
"Elected" - Alice Cooper
"The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
"Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Group
"Gaye" - Clifford T. Ward
"Get Down" - Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Get Up Stand Up" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
"Heartbeat, It's a Lovebeat" - DeFranco Family
"Helen Wheels" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Hellraiser" - The Sweet
"Hello, Hooray" - Alice Cooper
"Hello, It's Me" - Todd Rundgren
"Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again" - Gary Glitter
"Higher Ground" - Stevie Wonder
"Hocus Pocus" - Focus
"I Am Pegasus" - Ross Ryan
"I Love You Love Me Love" - Gary Glitter
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Wizzard
"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
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" - Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
"Jolene" - Dolly Parton
"Keep On Truckin' " - Eddie Kendricks
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Roberta Flack
"Kodachrome" - Paul Simon
"Lamplight" - David Essex
"Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
"Life On Mars" - David Bowie
"Little Saint Nick" - The Beach Boys
"Live and Let Die" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Looking For A Kiss" - New York Dolls
"Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" - ABBA
"Love Train" - The O'Jays
"Loves Me Like a Rock" - Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
"Me and Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul
"Merry Xmas Everybody" - Slade
"Money" - Pink Floyd
"The Morning After" - Maureen McGovern
"My Love" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" - Alice Cooper
"Nutbush City Limits - Ike and Tina Turner
"Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
"Photograph" - Ringo Starr
"Playground in My Mine" - Clint Holmes
"Radar Love" - Golden Earring
"Ramblin' Man" - Allman Brothers Band
"Relay" - The Who
"Roll Over Beethoven" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Rubber Bullets" - 10cc
"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - Elton John
"See My Baby Jive" - Wizzard
"Sing" - Carpenters
"Slyvia" - Focus
"So Much Love (In My Heart)" - Mr George
"Sorrow" - David Bowie
"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
"Step Into Christmas" - Elton John
"Suzie Darlin'" - Barry Crocker
"Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - Paul Simon
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" - Tony Orlando & Dawn
"The Dean And I" - 10cc
"Top of the World" - Carpenters
"Touch Me in the Morning" - Diana Ross
"Wherewithal" - Clifford T. Ward
"Whisky In The Jar" - Thin Lizzy
"Why Me" - Kris Kristofferson
"Will It Go Around in Circles" - Billy Preston
"Yesterday Once More" - Carpenters
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - Stevie Wonder
"You Can't Get Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones
"You Don't Own Me" - Ormsby Brothers
"My Coo-Ca-Choo" - Alvin Stardust

[edit] Published popular music

"And I Love You So" w.m. Don McLean
"Candle in the Wind" w. Bernie Taupin m. Elton John
"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" w.m. Jim Croce
"I've Got To Use My Imagination" w.m. Gerry Goffin & Barry Goldberg
"Last Song" w.m. Lawrence Wayne Evoy
"Liaisons" w.m. Stephen Sondheim from the musical A Little Night Music
"Midnight Train To Georgia" w.m. Jim Weatherly
"Nadia's Theme" m. Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr., from the TV soap opera The Young and the Restless
"(Say Has Anybody Seen) My Sweet Gypsy Rose" w.m. Irwin Levine & L. Russell Brown
"Piano Man" w.m. Billy Joel
"Send In The Clowns" w.m. Stephen Sondheim from the musical A Little Night Music
"Stuck In The Middle With You" w.m. Joe Egan & Gerry Rafferty
"There Used To Be A Ballpark" w.m. Joe Raposo
"Top Of The World" w.m. John Bettis & Richard Carpenter
"The Way We Were" w. Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman m. Marvin Hamlisch from the film The Way We Were
"Yesterday Once More" w.m. John Bettis & Richard Carpenter
"Il venait d'avoir 18 ans" - Dalida
"Je suis malade" - Dalida
"Paroles... Paroles..." - Dalida & Alain Delon
"Pour ne pas vivre seul" - Dalida
"Vado Via" - Dalida

[edit] Classical music

Jean Absil - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3
William Alwyn - Fantasy Sonata for flute and harp
Gloria Coates - Music on Open Strings (Symphony no. 1)
George Crumb - Makrokosmos, Volume II for amplified piano
Alberto Ginastera - String Quartet no. 3
Lou Harrison - Organ Concerto with Percussion
Anthony Iannaccone - Rituals
Frank Martin - Requiem
Luigi Nono - Canto per il Vietnam
Carl Orff - De Temporum Fine Comoedia

[edit] Opera

de la Figo - Bronski eu Lot
Nikolai Korndorf - Feast in the Time of Plague

[edit] Musical theater

Gigi (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) - Broadway production
Grease London production
Gypsy (Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim) - London production
Hard to be a Jew Broadway production
Irene Broadway revival
Here Comes the Groom Broadway production
The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - London revival
A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim) - Broadway production
No, No, Nanette (Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, Vincent Youmans) - London revival
The Pajama Game (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross) - Broadway revival
Pinocchio Broadway production
Pippin London production
Raisin Broadway production
The Rocky Horror Show (Richard O'Brien) - London production
Seesaw Broadway production opened at the Uris Theatre on March 18 and ran for 296 performances
Two Gentlemen from Verona London production