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Contents 1 Events 1.1 January–February 1.2 March–May 1.3 June–August 1.4 September–December 1.5 Also in 1977 2 Bands formed 3 Bands reformed 4 Bands disbanded 5 Albums released 5.1 January 5.2 February 5.3 March 5.4 April 5.5 May 5.6 June 5.7 July 5.8 August 5.9 September 5.10 October 5.11 November 5.12 December 5.13 Release Date Unknown 6 Biggest hit singles 7 Chronological table of US and UK number one hit singles 8 Other significant singles and major hits 9 Published popular music 10 Punk rock 11 Classical music 12 Opera 13 Musical theatre 14 Musical films 15 Births 16 Deaths 17 Awards

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.

Events

January–February

• January 1 – The Clash headline the gala opening of the London music club, The Roxy.
• January 11 – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is fined 750 pounds for possession of cocaine which was found in his wrecked car on May 19, 1976. Richards was charged an additional 250 pounds for court costs and found "not guilty" of possession of LSD.
• January 20 – Jimmy Buffett's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is released, featuring the biggest single of his career, "Margaritaville", which helps establish Buffett as a popular artist, and earns him much of the rabid fanbase ("Parrotheads") for which he eventually became known.
• January 22 – Maria Kliegel makes her London debut at the Wigmore Hall, with a programme of Bach, Kodály, and Franck.
• January 26
  • Patti Smith falls off the stage while opening for Bob Seger in Tampa, Florida. Smith is rushed to the hospital for 22 stitches to close head lacerations. While recovering, Smith writes her fifth book of poetry, Babel.
  • Fleetwood Mac's original lead guitarist, Peter Green, is committed to a mental hospital in England after firing a pistol at a delivery boy bringing him a royalties check.
• January 27 – After releasing only one single for the band, EMI terminates its contract with the Sex Pistols.
• February 4
  • American Bandstand celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark. An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry, Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman, Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers, the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels, Doc Severinsen, Les McCann, Donald Byrd, Chuck Mangione and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
  • Fleetwood Mac's widely-anticipated Rumours is released; it goes on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time.
• February 14 – The B-52's make their debut at a party in Athens, Georgia
• February 15 – Sid Vicious replaces Glen Matlock as the bassist for the Sex Pistols.
• February 27 – Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards' Toronto hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin, 5 grams of cocaine and narcotics paraphernalia. Richards is arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic, and possession of cocaine. He is released on $25,000 bail.

March–May

• March 1 – Sara Lowndes Dylan files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan.
• March 4 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two shows at the El Mocambo in Toronto, their first club appearance since 1964.
• March 10 – A&M Records signs the Sex Pistols in a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace. The contract is terminated on March 16 as a result of the band vandalizing property and verbally abusing employees during a visit to the record company's office.
• April 21 – Jesse Winchester performs a concert in Burlington, Vermont, his first on American soil in ten years. Winchester fled to Canada in January 1967 to avoid military service in Vietnam, but recently became free to return under the Presidential pardon given to all draft evaders.
• April 22 – Pink Floyd open the North American leg of their "Animals" tour in Miami, Florida.
• April 24 – Several artists, including Joan Baez and Santana, perform at a free concert for 653 inmates of California's Soledad Prison.
• April 26 – New York's disco Studio 54 opens.
• May 2 – Elton John performs the first of six consecutive nights at London's Rainbow Theatre, his first concert in eight months. John keeps a low profile in 1977, not releasing any new music for the first year since his recording career began eight years previously.
• May 7 – Having been postponed from April 2 because of a BBC technicians' strike, the 22nd Eurovision Song Contest finally goes ahead in London's Wembley Conference Centre. France wins with Marie Myriam and the song "L'Oiseau et l'Enfant".
• May 11 – The Stranglers and support band London start a 10 week national UK tour.
• May 12 –
  • Instruments made by all five members of the 17th- and 18th-century Guarneri family of violin makers are auctioned at Sotheby's, with the top price of £105,000 paid for an instrument made in 1738 by Giuseppe Guarnieri del Gesù.
  • Virgin Records announces that they have signed the Sex Pistols. The group has already been kicked off their two previous labels in the past four months.
• May 14 – $24,000 worth of cash and valuables are stolen from Lynyrd Skynyrd in Savannah, Georgia.
• May 27 – Tom Waits and a friend are arrested outside a Los Angeles coffee shop for causing a public disturbance. Waits sues the police for false arrest and imprisonment and eventually wins a $7,500 award in 1982.
• May 28 – Bruce Springsteen and Mike Appel reach an out-of-court settlement, ending the year-long legal battle that has blocked Springsteen's ability to record new music.
• May 31 – The musical Beatlemania premieres at the Winter Garden Theatre.
• June – The Nikikai Opera Foundation is founded.

June 15 – The Snape Maltings Training Orchestra makes its London debut at St John's, Smith Square.

June–August

• June 7 – The Sex Pistols attempt to interrupt Silver Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II by performing "God Save the Queen" from a boat on the River Thames. Police force the boat to dock and several arrests are made following a scuffle.
• June 12
  • Guitarist Michael Schenker vanishes after a UFO concert at The Roundhouse in London. He is replaced for several months by Paul Chapman until he appears again to rejoin the group in October.
  • The Supremes perform for the last time together at Drury Lane Theatre in London before officially disbanding.
• June 20 – Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart drives his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, suffering multiple broken bones but surviving as a tree breaks his fall.
• June 22 – Kiss are elected "most popular band in America" by a Gallup poll.
• June 25 – The Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra of London, conducted by James Blair, gives the belated premiere of William Walton's 1962 composition Prelude for Orchestra.
• July 6 – During a Pink Floyd concert before a crowd of 80,000 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Bassist Roger Waters having become increasingly irritated by a fan until he exerts his frustration by spitting on him. The incident becomes the catalyst for the group's next album, The Wall.
• July 9 – Donna Summer's hit record "I Feel Love" is released in the UK. It was massively influential in pop music as it was the first hit record ever to have an entirely synthesised backing track and helped propel the use of synthesisers in music greatly, especially in the 1980s.
• July 13 – after a massive blackout hits New York City, NRBQ manages to play an all-acoustic set at the Bottom Line with flashlights taped to their microphone stands.
• July 22 – The first night of The Proms are broadcast by BBC Radio 3 for the first time in quadraphonic sound.
• July 26 – Led Zeppelin cancels the last seven dates of their American tour after lead singer Robert Plant learns that his six-year old son Karac has died of a respiratory virus. The show two days before in Oakland proves to be the band's last ever in the United States.
• August 16 – Elvis Presley is found dead at his home Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
• August 17 – Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland for the funeral of Elvis Presley had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.
• August 20 – The Voyager 2 unmanned probe is launched by NASA, followed by Voyager 1 the following month. Both spacecraft carry a golden record containing sounds and images representing life and culture on Earth, including the first movements of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode".

September–December

• September – Alice Cooper enters rehab for four months due to his alcoholism, after ten years of drinking a pack of beer a day.
• September 1 – World premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London of the expanded version of Luciano Berio's Coro.
• September 3 – nearly 110,000 fans pack Englishtown Raceway in Old Bridge, New Jersey for an eleven hour concert by Grateful Dead, Marshall Tucker Band and New Riders of the Purple Sage.
• September 15 – the third (and final) annual Rock Music Awards air on NBC. Fleetwood Mac dominates, winning five awards.
• September 16 – T.Rex frontman Marc Bolan is killed in an automobile accident.
• September 29 – Billy Joel's The Stranger is released. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "Just the Way You Are" and "Only the Good Die Young" all become hits, and the album also features the beloved medley "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant".
• October 3 – Elvis in Concert, a TV concert special filmed during Elvis Presley's final tour, airs on CBS.
• October 5 – The bicentennial season of La Scala opens in Milan with a production of Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo.
• October 9 – Aerosmith cancels several tour dates after Joe Perry and Steven Tyler are injured by an M-80 explosive thrown onstage at the Philadelphia Spectrum, burning Tyler's left cornea and cutting Perry's left hand.
• October 20 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing songwriter & vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and background vocalist Cassie Gaines.
• October 31 – The original version of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Jahreslauf is premiered at the National Theatre of Japan in Chiyoda, Tokyo by the Imperial Gagaku Ensemble.
• November 25 – 10 Years of Rolling Stone, a television special commemorating the tenth anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine, airs on CBS. Guests include Bette Midler, Art Garfunkel, Billy Preston, Melissa Manchester, and Keith Moon.
• November 30 – Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas, airs on CBS. The special was taped in September, one month before Crosby's death at age 74. The most memorable scene consists of the surreal sight of Crosby being joined by David Bowie for the duet "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy".
• December 14 – Saturday Night Fever appears in theaters, igniting a new popularity for disco music and pushing it to the forefront of American pop culture. The accompanying soundtrack to the film is an enormous hit that establishes the Bee Gees (who had composed most of the tracks) as the most popular artists in the world, and the best-selling artist since the Beatles.
• December 17 – Elvis Costello makes his American television debut on Saturday Night Live, but is banned after substituting the scheduled performance of "Less than Zero" with "Radio, Radio" instead.
• December 31 – The sixth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with performances by Ohio Players, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Andy Gibb.

Also in 1977

• Bohemian Rhapsody is named 'The Best Single Of The Last 25 Years' by BPI.
• The St. Magnus Festival was founded in Orkney by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe began its annual festival based on the music of George Frideric Handel.
• Luigi Sagrati becomes president of the Unione Musicisti di Roma.
• The Meters break up.
• The IRCAM Center, a scientific institute for music and sound and avant-garde electro-acoustical art music, opens in Paris.
• The Cars sign a contract with Elektra Records.
• Devo signs a contract with Warner Bros.
• Midnight Oil sign a contract with CBS Records.
• The Neville Brothers sign a contract with A&M Records.
• The Police sign a contract with A&M Records.
• Van Halen signs a contract with Warner Bros.
• Van Morrison releases a new album after a three-year absence.
• Luv', a Dutch girl group, is formed.
• Jive Records opened

Bands formed

• See Category:Musical groups established in 1977

Bands reformed

• The Animals

Bands disbanded

• See Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1977

Albums released

Contents:	Top January February March April May June July August September October November December

January

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
7	Flight Log (1966–1976)	Jefferson Airplane	Compilation
10	Hard Again	Muddy Waters	-
	Leave Home	The Ramones	-
14	Low	David Bowie	-
	Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!	Bootsy's Rubber Band	-
18	Deep in My Soul	Smokey Robinson	-
	An Evening with Diana Ross	Diana Ross	Live
	Playing the Fool	Gentle Giant	Live
20	Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes	Jimmy Buffett	-
21	So So Satisfied	Ashford & Simpson	-
23	Animals	Pink Floyd	-
29	Spiral Scratch	Buzzcocks	EP
-	Ask Rufus	Rufus	-
	Festival	Santana	-
	Forever for Now	April Wine	-
	Fountains of Light	Starcastle	-
	The Last Gunfighter Ballad	Johnny Cash	-
	The Light of Smiles	Gary Wright	-
	Lost Without Your Love	Bread	-
	Luxury Liner	Emmylou Harris	-
	Miracle Row	Janis Ian	-
	Queens of Noise	The Runaways	-
	Ra	Utopia	-
	Red Hot	Don Harrison Band	-
	Sammy Hagar	Sammy Hagar	-
	Tejas	ZZ Top	-

February

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
4	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	-
5	Stay in Love	Minnie Riperton	-
8	Marquee Moon	Television	-
11	Songs from the Wood	Jethro Tull	-
12	Sleepwalker	The Kinks	-
15	Harbor	America	-
18	Damned, Damned, Damned	The Damned	-
	Glorious	Gloria Gaynor	-
22	White Snake	David Coverdale	-
25	Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel	solo debut
	Ultravox!	Ultravox	-
-	Body Love	Klaus Schulze	Soundtrack
	Cheap Trick	Cheap Trick	-
	Fingerprince	The Residents	-
	Firefly	Uriah Heep	-
	Freeways	Bachman–Turner Overdrive	-
	(I'm) Stranded	The Saints	-
	In Your Mind	Bryan Ferry	-
	New Harvest - First Gathering	Dolly Parton	-
	Next	Journey	-
	On Earth as It Is in Heaven	Angel	-
	Unpredictable	Natalie Cole	-
	Victim of Romance	Michelle Phillips	-

March

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	High Class in Borrowed Shoes	Max Webster	-
8	Foreigner	Foreigner	-
11	Dandy in the Underworld	T.Rex	-
15	Islands	The Band	-
	Live at the London Palladium	Marvin Gaye	Live
17	Works Volume I	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	-
18	The Idiot	Iggy Pop	-
21	Let There Be Rock	AC/DC	Australia
	Whatever Happened to Slade	Slade	-
-	Angel	Ohio Players	-
	Anytime...Anywhere	Rita Coolidge	-
	Commodores	Commodores	-
	Every Face Tells a Story	Cliff Richard	-
	Go for Your Guns	The Isley Brothers	-
	Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live	Jeff Beck and the Jan Hammer Group	Live
	Live!	Status Quo	Live
	Malice in Wonderland	Paice, Ashton & Lord	-
	Nothing But a Breeze	Jesse Winchester	-
	Something Magic	Procol Harum	-
	Trans-Europe Express	Kraftwerk	-
	Violation	Starz	-
	Welcome to My World	Elvis Presley	Compilation

April

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
2	Phyllis Hyman	Phyllis Hyman	-
8	The Clash	The Clash	-
11	Love You	The Beach Boys	-
15	Rattus Norvergicus	The Stranglers	-
23	Sin After Sin	Judas Priest	-
25	Deceptive Bends	10cc	-
29	Lace and Whiskey	Alice Cooper	-
30	Caught Live + 5	Moody Blues	Live + unreleased material, 1969
-	Celebrate Me Home	Kenny Loggins	-
	Clear Air Turbulence	Ian Gillan Band	-
	Detective	Detective	-
	Even in the Quietest Moments	Supertramp	-
	Get It	Dave Edmunds	-
	Izitso	Cat Stevens	-
	Let it Flow	Dave Mason	-
	Mirage	Klaus Schulze	-
	Moroccan Roll	Brand X	-
	Off the Record	Sweet	-
	Ol' Waylon	Waylon Jennings	-
	Over	Peter Hammill	-
	A Period of Transition	Van Morrison	-

May

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
4	The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl	The Beatles	Live 1964–'65
6	Holly Days	Denny Laine	-
13	I Remember Yesterday	Donna Summer	-
14	Little Queen	Heart	-
20	In the City	The Jam	-
	Spot the Pigeon	Genesis	EP
27	Free Fall	Dixie Dregs	-
28	I'm in You	Peter Frampton	-
-	Barry Manilow Live	Barry Manilow	Live
	Book of Dreams	Steve Miller Band	-
	Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live	Bee Gees	Live
	Indian Summer	Poco	-
	Lights Out	UFO	-
	Live: P-Funk Earth Tour	Parliament	-
	Love for Sale	Boney M	-
	My Own Way to Rock	Burton Cummings	-
	Nether Lands	Dan Fogelberg	-
	Now	The Tubes	-
	One of the Boys	Roger Daltrey	-
	Playin' Up a Storm	The Gregg Allman Band	-
	Rendezvous	Sandy Denny	-
	Sneakin' Suspicion	Dr. Feelgood	-
	Star Wars: Original Soundtrack	John Williams	Soundtrack
	38 Special	38 Special	-
	Time Loves a Hero	Little Feat	-
	Travelin' at the Speed of Thought	The O'Jays	-

June

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Exodus	Bob Marley & The Wailers	-
8	Knock 'Em Dead Kid	Trooper	-
9	Monkey Island	The J. Geils Band	-
13	American Stars 'n Bars	Neil Young	-
14	Streisand Superman	Barbra Streisand	-
17	CSN	Crosby, Stills & Nash	-
	Love Gun	Kiss	-
-	Blowin' Away	Joan Baez	-
	Cat Scratch Fever	Ted Nugent	-
	Full House	Frankie Miller	-
	I Robot	The Alan Parsons Project	-
	JT	James Taylor	-
	Live at Last	Bette Midler	Live
	Making a Good Thing Better	Olivia Newton-John	-
	Pure Mania	The Vibrators	-
	Quark, Strangeness and Charm	Hawkwind	-
	Rock City	Riot	-
	Season of Lights	Laura Nyro	Live
	Steve Winwood	Steve Winwood	-

July

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
7	The Grand Illusion	Styx	-
	On Stage	Rainbow	Live
11	Village People	Village People	mini-album debut
19	Moody Blue	Elvis Presley	-
22	Going for the One	Yes	-
	My Aim Is True	Elvis Costello	-
27	Terrapin Station	Grateful Dead	-
-	Daytime Friends	Kenny Rogers	-
	It's a Game	Bay City Rollers	-
	Knnillssonn	Harry Nilsson	-
	Live! In the Air Age	Be-Bop Deluxe	Live
	Radios Appear	Radio Birdman	-
	The Rambler	Johnny Cash	-
	Simple Things	Carole King	-
	The Whole Thing's Started	Air Supply	-

August

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
19	Livin' on the Fault Line	The Doobie Brothers	-
22	Pacific Ocean Blue	Dennis Wilson	-
29	Dizrythmia	Split Enz	-
	Lust for Life	Iggy Pop	-
-	The Angels	The Angels	Australia
	Barry White Sings for Someone You Love	Barry White	-
	Beauty on a Back Street	Hall & Oates	-
	Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted	The Animals	-
	Donovan	Donovan	-
	Donald Clark Osmond	Donny Osmond	-
	Firing on All Six	Lone Star	-
	Foghat Live	Foghat	Live
	If Wishes Were Horses	Sweeney Todd	-
	In Color	Cheap Trick	-
	Nothin' But the Blues	Johnny Winter	-
	Showtime	Ry Cooder	-

September

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	A Farewell to Kings	Rush	-
	Enigmatic Ocean	Jean-Luc Ponty	-
2	Bad Reputation	Thin Lizzy	-
7	Twilley Don't Mind	Dwight Tilley	-
12	Chicago XI	Chicago	-
13	Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II	Elton John	Compilation
16	Baby It's Me	Diana Ross	-
	Talking Heads: 77	Talking Heads	-
	Rough Mix	Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane	-
23	Aja	Steely Dan	-
	Love You Live	The Rolling Stones	Live
	No More Heroes	The Stranglers	-
24	Motörhead	Motörhead	-
29	The Stranger	Billy Joel	-
30	New Boots and Panties!!	Ian Dury	-
	Ringo the 4th	Ringo Starr	-
-	Blank Generation	Richard Hell & The Voidoids	-
	The Boomtown Rats	The Boomtown Rats	-
	Flowing Rivers	Andy Gibb	-
	Foreign Affairs	Tom Waits	-
	Hope	Klaatu	-
	Musical Chairs	Sammy Hagar	-
	Oops! Wrong Planet	Utopia	-
	Simple Dreams	Linda Ronstadt	-

October

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Elvis in Concert	Elvis Presley	Live, Soundtrack
	L.A.M.F.	Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	-
7	3D - EP	XTC	EP
	Midnight Wind	The Charlie Daniels Band	-
9	Send It	Ashford & Simpson	-
11	Point of Know Return	Kansas	-
12	Alive II	Kiss	Live + 5 new studio tracks
14	Ha!-Ha!-Ha!	Ultravox	-
	"Heroes"	David Bowie	-
17	Street Survivors	Lynyrd Skynyrd	-
18	Goin' Places	The Jacksons	-
21	Bat out of Hell	Meat Loaf	-
	Seconds Out	Genesis	Live
27	Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols	Sex Pistols	-
28	Decade	Neil Young	Compilation
	News of the World	Queen	-
31	Once Upon a Time	Donna Summer	-
-	Bright Lights and Back Alleys	Smokie	-
	Citadel	Starcastle	-
	Commodores Live!	Commodores	-
	The Golden Greats	Sweet	Compilation
	Gone to Earth	Barclay James Harvest	-
	Here You Come Again	Dolly Parton	-
	Levon Helm & the RCO All-Stars	Levon Helm	-
	Little Criminals	Randy Newman	-
	Live in Japan	The Runaways	Live
	Moonflower	Santana	-
	Night After Night	Nils Lofgren	Live
	Out of the Blue	Electric Light Orchestra	-
	Passage	Carpenters	-
	Plastic Letters	Blondie	-
	Show Some Emotion	Joan Armatrading	-
	Spectres	Blue Öyster Cult	-
	Stick to Me	Graham Parker and the Rumour	-
	Thunder in My Heart	Leo Sayer	-
	True to Life	Ray Charles	-
	Watermark	Art Garfunkel	-
	What a Long Strange Trip It's Been	Grateful Dead	Compilation
	Young Loud and Snotty	Dead Boys	-

November

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
3	Rock and Roll Machine	Triumph	-
4	Foot Loose & Fancy Free	Rod Stewart	-
	Rocket to Russia	The Ramones	-
11	Gør det noget	Gasolin'	-
14	Manorisms	Wet Willie	-
16	Thankful	Natalie Cole	-
17	Broken Blossom	Bette Midler	-
18	Livestock	Brand X	Live
	This Is the Modern World	The Jam	-
21	All 'n All	Earth, Wind & Fire	-
22	Chic	Chic	-
26	The Best of ZZ Top	ZZ Top	Compilation
-	Crosby-Nash Live	Crosby & Nash	Live
	Death of a Ladies' Man	Leonard Cohen	-
	Down Two Then Left	Boz Scaggs	-
	Expect No Mercy	Nazareth	-
	Galaxy	War	-
	Greatest Hits, Etc.	Paul Simon	Compilation + 2 new tracks
	Further Temptations	The Drones	-
	Innocent Victim	Uriah Heep	-
	Introducing Sparks	Sparks	-
	It Takes One to Know One	Detective	-
	I Want to Live	John Denver	-
	Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits	Joe Cocker	Compilation
	Kill City	Iggy Pop & James Williamson	-
	Life on the Line	Eddie and the Hot Rods	-
	Race With the Devil	Black Oak Arkansas	-
	Recycled	Edgar Winter's White Trash	-
	Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record	Rick Wakeman	-
	Rockin' All Over the World	Status Quo	-
	Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track	Bee Gees et al.	Soundtrack
	The Second Annual Report	Throbbing Gristle	-
	Slowhand	Eric Clapton	-
	Touch and Gone	Gary Wright	-

December

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
1	Draw the Line	Aerosmith	-
3	I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight	Neil Diamond	-
4	Taken by Force	Scorpions	-
6	The Belle Album	Al Green	-
	Running on Empty	Jackson Browne	-
9	Scouse the Mouse	Ringo Starr	Children's
12	ABBA: The Album	ABBA	-
13	Blue Lights in the Basement	Roberta Flack	-
	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter	Joni Mitchell	-
28	Suicide	Suicide	-
-	The Alice Cooper Show	Alice Cooper	Live
	Before and After Science	Brian Eno	-
	The Best of Top of the Pops '77	Top of the Poppers	Compilation
	Body Love Vol. 2	Klaus Schulze	Soundtrack
	Mr. Mean	Ohio Players	-
	Pink Flag	Wire	-
	Rick Danko	Rick Danko	-
	Waitin' for the Night	The Runaways	-

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Aliens – Horslips American Roulette – Danny O'Keefe Be Seeing You – Dr. Feelgood Black Vinyl Shoes – Shoes Blue Hotel – Fox Boats Against the Current – Eric Carmen Bop-Be – Keith Jarrett The Boys – The Boys British Lions – British Lions (debut) Broken Heart – The Babys BTO Live - Japan Tour (live) – Bachman–Turner Overdrive Bullinamingvase – Roy Harper Bundle of Joy – Freddie Hubbard Byablue – Keith Jarrett Cabretta – Mink DeVille Calling on Youth – The Outsiders Circles in the Stream – Bruce Cockburn – Live Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – John Williams Cluster & Eno – Cluster & Eno Come in from the Rain – Captain & Tennille Come to Me – Juice Newton and Silver Spur Coming Back for More – William Bell Consequences – Godley & Creme Dark Magus – Miles Davis – Live 1974 Derringer Live – Derringer – Live The Diodes – The Diodes East of the River Nile – Augustus Pablo Eddie Money – Eddie Money Elegant Gypsy – Al Di Meola Encore – Tangerine Dream Equal Rights – Peter Tosh Face to Face: A Live Recording – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel Feel the Fire – Jermaine Jackson Feelin' Bitchy – Millie Jackson 15 Years On – The Dubliners From Here to Eternity – Giorgio Moroder Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs – Eddie Hazel George Thorogood and the Destroyers – George Thorogood and the Destroyers Goddo – Goddo The Guitar Syndicate – Hank Marvin Halloween – Pulsar Heart of the Congos – The Congos High Class in Borrowed Shoes – Max Webster Home on the Range – Slim Whitman Hurry Sundown – Outlaws I Came to Dance – Nils Lofgren I'm a Man – Bo Diddley In City Dreams – Robin Trower It Feels So Good – The Manhattans Joe Ely – Joe Ely Just a Stone's Throw Away – Valerie Carter Just a Story from America – Elliott Murphy Kenny Rogers – Kenny Rogers Live – Golden Earring – Live

Live: You Get What You Play For – REO Speedwagon Live at the El Mocambo – April Wine Live at Montreux – The Dubliners Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas – Townes Van Zandt – Live 1973 Look to the Rainbow – Al Jarreau Love Storm – Tavares A Maid in Bedlam – John Renbourn Group Majida El Roumi – Majida El Roumi Makin' Magic – Pat Travers Manifest Destiny – The Dictators Marin County Line – New Riders of the Purple Sage Mark Farner – Mark Farner Marlena – Die Flippers Menagerie – Bill Withers Message Man – Eddy Grant Montreux '77 – Ella Fitzgerald Never Letting Go – Phoebe Snow New Horizon – Isaac Hayes Nice to Be Around – Rosemary Clooney Photoplay – Sherbet A Place in the Sun – Pablo Cruise Playing to an Audience of One – David Soul Police and Thieves – Junior Murvin Prism – Prism Protest – Bunny Wailer Putting It Straight – Pat Travers Ram Jam – Ram Jam Red River Valley – Slim Whitman Reencuentro – José José Regeneration – Roy Orbison Ridin' High – Moxy Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom – Rose Royce Sergio Franchi / Volare - Sergio Franchi (RCA 15th Anniv. Tribute to Franchi) Saw Delight – Can Songs of Kristofferson – Kris Kristofferson Space – Space Spiral – Vangelis Storm Force Ten – Steeleye Span Supernature (Cerrone III) – Cerrone Sweet Evil – Derringer Tanz Samba mit Mir – Tony Holiday Tasty – The Shadows To Lefty From Willie – Willie Nelson (Lefty Frizzell covers album) Tormé: A New Album – Mel Tormé Two Sevens Clash – Culture Unmistakably Lou – Lou Rawls The Visitation – Chrome Visitors – Automatic Man Watercolors – Pat Metheny We Must Believe in Magic – Crystal Gayle When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All – Lou Rawls You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone Young Men Gone West – City Boy Zombie – Fela Kuti

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1977.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart entries
1	Eagles	Hotel California	1977		US BB 1 – Mar 1977, Canada 1 – Mar 1977, France 1 – Jun 1977, Grammy in 1977, Switzerland 2 – Jul 1977, OzNet 3, Norway 5 – May 1977, Europe 5 of the 1970s, US BB 6 of 1977, Germany 6 – Jun 1977, TheQ 6, POP 6 of 1977, UK 8 – Apr 1977, Holland 8 – May 1977, Austria 13 – Sep 1977, Belgium 18 of all time, RYM 18 of 1977, Scrobulate 28 of rock, US CashBox 35 of 1977, Poland 38 of all time, Acclaimed 43, Virgin 44, RIAA 46, Rolling Stone 49, 68 in 2FM list, WXPN 73, Party 87 of 2007, Italy 88 of 1977, Germany 317 of the 1970s
2	Donna Summer	I Feel Love	1977		UK 1 – Jul 1977, Holland 1 – Aug 1977, France 1 – Sep 1977, Austria 1 – Aug 1977, Australia 1 for 1 weeks May 1978, Switzerland 2 – Aug 1977, Germany 3 – Aug 1977, Sweden (alt) 5 – Jul 1977, Italy 5 of 1977, US BB 6 – Sep 1977, RYM 7 of 1977, Norway 8 – Nov 1977, Canada 9 – Oct 1977, Australia 17 of 1977, Scrobulate 32 of disco, US CashBox 57 of 1977, Acclaimed 181, Germany 271 of the 1970s, Rolling Stone 411
3	Wings	Mull of Kintyre	1977		UK 1 – Nov 1977, Holland 1 – Dec 1977, Austria 1 – Feb 1978, Switzerland 1 – Jan 1978, Germany 1 – Jan 1978, Éire 1 – Dec 1977, Australia 1 for 11 weeks Jul 1978, Norway 2 – Dec 1977, Australia 2 of 1978, South Africa 5 of 1978, Sweden (alt) 14 – Dec 1977, Germany 21 of the 1970s, RYM 28 of 1977, Europe 76 of the 1970s, Italy 97 of 1978
4	Boney M	Ma Baker	1977	/ /	Holland 1 – May 1977, Sweden (alt) 1 – May 1977, France 1 – Jun 1977, Austria 1 – Jun 1977, Switzerland 1 – May 1977, Norway 1 – Jun 1977, Germany 1 – May 1977, UK 2 – Jun 1977, Italy 16 of 1977, Australia 24 of 1977, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1978, Germany 55 of the 1970s, Scrobulate 80 of disco, RYM 101 of 1977
5	Baccara	Yes Sir, I Can Boogie	1977		UK 1 – Sep 1977, Holland 1 – Jun 1977, Sweden (alt) 1 – Jul 1977, Switzerland 1 – Jun 1977, Norway 1 – Aug 1977, Germany 1 – Jun 1977, Éire 1 – Nov 1977, France 2 – Jun 1977, Austria 2 – Aug 1977, Germany 31 of the 1970s, Italy 81 of 1978, RYM 123 of 1977

Chronological table of US and UK number one hit singles

US number one singles and artist (weeks at number one)	UK number one singles and artist (weeks at number one)
"Tonight's the Night" – Rod Stewart (7 weeks in 1976 + 1 week in 1977)	"When a Child is Born" – Johnny Mathis (1 week in 1976 + 2 weeks in 1977)
"You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"- Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. (1)	"Don't Give Up On Us" – David Soul (4)
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" – Leo Sayer (1)	"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" – Julie Covington (1)
"I Wish" – Stevie Wonder (1)	"When I Need You" – Leo Sayer (3)
"Car Wash" – Rose Royce (1)	"Chanson D'Amour" – The Manhattan Transfer (3)
"Torn Between Two Lovers" – Mary MacGregor (2)	"Knowing Me, Knowing You" – ABBA (5)
"Blinded by the Light" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1)	"Free" – Deniece Williams (2)
"New Kid in Town" – The Eagles (1)	"I Don't Want to Talk About It/The First Cut Is the Deepest" – Rod Stewart (4)
"Love theme from A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" – Barbra Streisand (3)	"Lucille" – Kenny Rogers (1)
"Rich Girl" – Hall & Oates (2)	"Show You the Way to Go" – The Jacksons (1)
"Dancing Queen" – ABBA (1)	"So You Win Again" – Hot Chocolate (3)
"Don't Give Up On Us" – David Soul (1)	"I Feel Love" – Donna Summer (4)
"Don't Leave Me This Way" – Thelma Houston (1)	"Angelo" – Brotherhood of Man (1)
"Southern Nights" – Glen Campbell (1)	"Float On" – Floaters (1)
"Hotel California" – Eagles (1)	"Way Down" – Elvis Presley (5)
"When I Need You" – Leo Sayer (1)	"Silver Lady" – David Soul (3)
"Sir Duke" – Stevie Wonder (3)	"Yes Sir I Can Boogie" – Baccara (1)
"I'm Your Boogie Man" – KC and the Sunshine Band (1)	"The Name of the Game" – ABBA (4)
"Dreams" – Fleetwood Mac (1)	"Mull Of Kintyre/Girl's School" – Wings, (5 weeks in 1977 + 4 weeks in 1978), best selling single of the year
"Got to Give It Up" – Marvin Gaye (1)
"Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) – Bill Conti (1)
"Undercover Angel" – Alan O'Day (1)
"Da Doo Ron Ron" – Shaun Cassidy (1)
"Looks Like We Made It" – Barry Manilow (1)
"I Just Want to Be Your Everything" – Andy Gibb (4)
"Best of My Love" – The Emotions (5)
"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" – Meco (2)
"You Light Up My Life" – Debby Boone (10), best selling single of the year
"How Deep Is Your Love" – Bee Gees (2 weeks in 1977 + 1 week in 1978)

Other significant singles and major hits

• "After the Lovin'" – Engelbert Humperdinck
• "Alison" – Elvis Costello
• "All You Get from Love Is a Love Song" – The Carpenters
• "American Girl" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" – Elvis Costello
• "Another Night" – The Shadows
• "Another Star" – Stevie Wonder
• "Apache – The Shadows (re-release)
• "April Sun in Cuba" – Dragon
• "As" – Stevie Wonder
• "Baby, What A Big Surprise – Chicago
• "Back Together Again" – Hall & Oates
• "Barracuda" – Heart
• "Black Is Black" – La Belle Epoque
• "Black Betty" – Ram Jam
• "Blue Bayou" – Linda Ronstadt
• "Brick House" – Commodores
• "California" – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" – The Carpenters
• "Carry On Wayward Son" – Kansas
• "Cat Scratch Fever" – Ted Nugent
• "The Chain" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Christine Sixteen" – Kiss
• "Closer to the Heart" – Rush
• "Cold as Ice" – Foreigner
• "Complete Control" – The Clash
• "Coyote" – Joni Mitchell
• "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" – Chic
• "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in its Spotlight)" – Thin Lizzy
• "Daybreak" – Barry Manilow
• "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" – AC/DC
• "Disco Inferno" – The Trammps
• "Do Ya" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Don't Believe a Word" – Thin Lizzy
• "Don't Dictate" – Penetration
• "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" – Crystal Gayle
• "Don't Stop" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Down to Zero" – Joan Armatrading
• "Dreamboat Annie" – Heart
• "Dreams" – Fleetwood Mac
• "Easy" – Commodores
• "Egyptian Reggae" – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
• "Exodus" – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• "Fanfare for the Common Man" – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• "Father Christmas" – The Kinks
• "Feel the Need In Me" – The Detroit Emeralds
• "Feels Like the First Time" – Foreigner
• "Fly At Night" – Chilliwack
• "Foreplay/Long Time" – Boston
• "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" – The Adverts
• "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" – The Stranglers
• "Give a Little Bit" – Supertramp
• "Go Your Own Way" – Fleetwood Mac
• "God Save the Queen" – Sex Pistols
• "Going for the One" – Yes
• "Hard Luck Woman" – Kiss
• "Heard It in a Love Song" – The Marshall Tucker Band
• "Heaven on the Seventh Floor" – Paul Nicholas
• "Heroes" – David Bowie
• "Hey Deanie" – Shaun Cassidy
• "Holidays in the Sun" – Sex Pistols
• "I Go Crazy" – Paul Davis
• "I Like Dreamin'" – Kenny Nolan
• "I Want You to Want Me" – Cheap Trick
• "In the City" – The Jam
• "Isn't She Lovely" – Stevie Wonder/David Parton
• "It's So Easy (To Fall in Love)" – Linda Ronstadt
• "Jamming/Punky Reggae Party" – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• "Jet Airliner" – Steve Miller Band
• "Juke Box Music" – The Kinks
• "Kill the King" – Rainbow
• "Lay Down Sally" – Eric Clapton
• "Let There Be Rock" – AC/DC
• "Lido Shuffle" – Boz Scaggs
• "Life in the Fast Lane" – Eagles
• "Like a Hurricane" – Neil Young
• "Lonely Boy" – Andrew Gold
• "Lookin' After No. 1" – The Boomtown Rats
• "Love Is the Answer" – Utopia
• "Lovely Day" – Bill Withers
• "Magazine Madonna" – Sherbet
• "Magic Fly" – Space
• "Mannequin" – Wire
• "Margaritaville" – Jimmy Buffett
• "Marquee Moon" – Television
• "Mary of the 4th Form" – The Boomtown Rats
• "Modern Love" – Peter Gabriel
• "Motorhead" – Motörhead
• "My Baby Left Me But That's Alright Mama" – Slade
• "My Heart Belongs to Me" – Barbra Streisand
• "My Kinda Life – Cliff Richard
• "Native New Yorker" – Odyssey
• "Neat Neat Neat" – The Damned
• "No More Heroes" – The Stranglers
• "Nobody Does It Better" – Carly Simon
• "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" – X-Ray Spex
• "Oh Lori" – Alessi Brothers
• "On the Border" – Al Stewart
• "One Chord Wonders" – The Adverts
• "Orgasm Addict" – Buzzcocks
• "Peace of Mind" – Boston
• "Peaches/Go Buddy Go" – The Stranglers
• "Peg" – Steely Dan
• "Phoenix" – Wishbone Ash
• "The Pink Parker (EP)" – Graham Parker and The Rumour
• "Pourin' It All Out" – Graham Parker and The Rumour
• "Pretty Vacant" – Sex Pistols
• "Psycho Killer" – Talking Heads
• "Really Free" – John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett
• "Remote Control" – The Clash
• "Right Time of the Night" – Jennifer Warnes
• "Road Runner" – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
• "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• "Rock Bottom" – Lynsey De Paul and Mike Moran
• "Rockaria!" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "Rockin' All Over the World" – Status Quo
• "Rose of Cimarron (EP)" – Poco
• "Runaway" – Bonnie Raitt
• "Sam" – Olivia Newton-John
• "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" – Ian Dury
• "She Did It" – Eric Carmen
• "She's Not There" – Santana
• "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" – Ramones
• "Short People" – Randy Newman
• "Sleepwalker" – The Kinks
• "Snuff Rock (EP)" – Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
• "Solsbury Hill" – Peter Gabriel
• "Something Better Change/Straighten Out" – The Stranglers
• "So Into You" – Atlanta Rhythm Section
• "Sound and Vision" – David Bowie
• "Spanish Stroll" – Mink DeVille
• "Spiral Scratch (EP)" – Buzzcocks
• "Spot the Pigeon" (EP) – Genesis
• "Swayin' To The Music (Slow Dancin')" – Johnny Rivers
• "Sweet Gene Vincent" – Ian Dury
• "Swingtown" – Steve Miller Band
• "Telephone Line" – Electric Light Orchestra
• "That's Rock and Roll" – Shaun Cassidy
• "This Is Tomorrow" – Bryan Ferry
• "Tie Your Mother Down" – Queen
• "Tryin' to Love Two" – William Bell
• "2-4-6-8 Motorway" – Tom Robinson Band
• "Tulane" – Steve Gibbons Band
• "Uptown Top Ranking" – Althea & Donna
• "Walk This Way" – Aerosmith
• "Waiting in Vain" – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• "Watching the Detectives" – Elvis Costello
• "We Are the Champions" – Queen
• "We Will Rock You" – Queen
• "We're All Alone" – Rita Coolidge
• "What Can I Say" – Boz Scaggs
• "What's Your Name" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "When Two Worlds Drift Apart" – Cliff Richard
• "White Punks On Dope" – The Tubes
• "White Riot" – The Clash
• "(I'd Go the) Whole Wide World" – Wreckless Eric
• "Willow" – Joan Armatrading
• "Wondrous Stories" – Yes
• "Year of the Cat" – Al Stewart
• "You Make Loving Fun" – Fleetwood Mac
• "You're in My Heart" – Rod Stewart
• "You're My World" – Helen Reddy
• "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" – Rita Coolidge
• "Your Own Special Way" – Genesis
• "Your Song" – Billy Paul

Published popular music

• "After the Lovin'" w. Richie Adams m. Alan Bernstein
• "Annie" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "Brazzle Dazzle Day" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
• "But the World Goes 'Round" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander. Introduced by Liza Minnelli in the film New York City
• "Candle on the Water" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
• "Child In A Universe" w.m. Laura Nyro
• "Come In From The Rain"     w.m. Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager
• "Easy Street" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "The Greatest Love of All"     w. Linda Creed m. Michael Masser
• "Happy Endings" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander. Introduced by Liza Minnelli, Larry Kert and chorus in the film New York, New York
• "Here You Come Again"     w.m. Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
• "I Don't Need Anything But You" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "It's Not Easy" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
• "It's the Hard-Knock Life" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "Just the Way You Are" w.m. Billy Joel
• "Little Girls" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "The Love Boat theme song" w.m. Norman Gimbel & Paul Williams
• "Love Is In The Air"     w.m. George Young & Harry Vanda
• "Maybe" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" w.m. Paul McCartney
• "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" w.m. Billy Joel
• "N.Y.C." w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "A New Deal For Christmas" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "New York, New York"     w.m. Fred Ebb & John Kander. Introduced by Liza Minnelli in the film New York City
• "Nobody Does It Better"     w. Carole Bayer Sager m. Marvin Hamlisch
• "She's Always a Woman" w.m. Billy Joel
• "Someone's Waiting for You"      w. Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins m. Sammy Fain from the film The Rescuers
• "Something Was Missing" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "Star Wars-Main Theme" m. John Williams from the Star Wars films
• "Stayin' Alive"     w.m. Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb & Robin Gibb
• "Thank You for the Music"     w.m. Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus
• "There Goes the Ball Game" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander. Introduced by Liza Minnelli in the film New York, New York
• "Tomorrow"     w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse, from the musical Annie
• "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long" w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse from the musical Annie
• "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile"     w. Martin Charnin m. Charles Strouse, from the musical Annie

Punk rock

Perhaps most important is the beginning of what has become known as the punk rock explosion. 1977 was the year of formation of The Avengers, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Crass, Discharge, Fear, The Flesh Eaters, The Germs, The Misfits, 999, The Pagans, Plasmatics, VOM, The Weirdos, and X.

1977 also saw the release of several pivotal albums in the development of punk music. Widely-acknowledged as masterpieces and among the earliest first full-length purely punk albums, The Clash by The Clash, The Damned's Damned, Damned, Damned, the Dead Boys' Young, Loud and Snotty, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F., The Jam's In the City, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, Richard Hell & the Voidoids' Blank Generation, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Television's Marquee Moon, and Wire's Pink Flag are usually considered their respective masterpieces, and kick-started punk music as the musical genre it eventually became. The year also saw the release of debut albums by bands often associated with, if not defined as, punk, such as Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True, Motörhead's Motörhead, Suicide's Suicide, and Talking Heads' Talking Heads: 77. It also saw the release of Iggy Pop's Lust for Life, his second record as a solo artist.

Classical music

• Harrison Birtwistle – Silbury Air
• John Buller – Proença for mezzo-soprano, electric guitar, and large orchestra
• Enrique Crespo – American Suite No. 1
• George Crumb – Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
• Lorenzo Ferrero
  • Arioso
  • Adagio cantabile
  • Romanza seconda
  • Aivlys
• Bengt Hambraeus – Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organ
• Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
• Karlheinz Stockhausen –
  • Jubiläum
  • Sirius
• Tōru Takemitsu
  • A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
  • Water-ways for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two harps and two vibraphones
• Alexander Vustin – In Memory of Boris Klyuzner
• Isang Yun – Concerto for Flute and Small Orchestra

Opera

• Julian Livingston – Twist of Treason
• Thea Musgrave – Mary, Queen of Scots
• Donald Sosin – Esther
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Atmen gibt das Leben (22 May 1977, Nice)
• Michael Tippett – The Ice Break (7 July, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Musical theatre

• The Act     Broadway production
• Annie (Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse) – Broadway production
• I Love My Wife     Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 17 and ran for 857 performances
• I Love My Wife London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 6 and ran for 401 performances
• The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein) – Broadway revival
• Privates on Parade London production opened at the Aldwych Theatre on February 17 and ran for 208 performances
• Side by Side by Sondheim     Broadway production
• Oliver! (Lionel Bart) – London revival

Musical films

• ABBA: The Movie
• A Little Night Music
• Amar Akbar Anthony
• New York, New York
• Pete's Dragon
• Saturday Night Fever

Births

• January 18 – Richard Archer, British singer (Hard-Fi)
• January 20 – Melody, Belgian singer
• January 25 – The-Dream, American singer
• January 28
  • Tweety (Next)
  • Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
• February 2
  • Shakira, Colombian singer and dancer
  • Jessica Wahls, German pop singer
• February 3 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican musician
• February 4 – Gavin DeGraw, American musician
• February 8 – Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (Linkin Park)
• February 11 – Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park, Fort Minor)
• February 15 – Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion)
• February 18 – Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
• February 20 – Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
• March 2 – Chris Martin, British singer (Coldplay)
• March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer (Boyzone)
• March 4 – Jason Marsalis, American jazz musician
• March 6 – Bubba Sparxxx, rapper
• March 7 – Paul Cattermole, British singer (S Club 7)
• March 10
  • Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
  • Colin Murray, British radio disc jockey
  • Matt Rubano, American rock bassist (Taking Back Sunday)
• March 11 – Jason Greeley, Canadian singer
• March 15 – Joseph Hahn (Linkin Park)
• March 16 – Ben Kenney, American rock bassist (Incubus)
• March 18 – Devin Lima, LFO
• April 9 – Gerard Way, vocalist (My Chemical Romance)
• April 23 – John Cena, American professional wrestler, actor and singer
• May 1 – Dan Regan (Reel Big Fish)
• May 8 – Joe Bonamassa, American musician
• May 17
  • Kandi Burruss, African-American R&B singer
  • Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
• May 31
  • Scott Klopfenstein (Reel Big Fish)
  • Joel Ross, British disc jockey
• June 3 – Yuri Ruley (MxPx)
• June 5 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
• June 8 – Kanye West, African-American rapper and record producer
• June 10 – Adam Darski, Polish musician (aka Nergal, Holocausto)
• June 12 – Kenny Wayne Shepherd, guitarist
• June 23 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
• June 28
  • Mark Stoermer, American rock guitarist (The Killers)
  • Harun Tekin, Turkish rock vocalist and guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi)
• June 29 – DEALZ, American rapper
• July 1 – Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer
• July 12 – Airin Older, American musician
• July 14 – Gordon Cree, composer
• July 15 – Ray Toro (My Chemical Romance)
• July 18 – Tony Fagenson (Eve 6)
• July 28 – Coby Dick (Papa Roach)
• July 29 – Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley)
• July 30 – Ian Watkins, vocalist (Lostprophets)
• August 2 – Dave Farrel, American musician
• August 10 – Aaron Kamin (The Calling)
• August 12 – Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (d. 2010)
• August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor
• August 17
  • Claire Richards, British singer (Steps)
  • Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer
• August 30 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
• August 31 – Craig Nicholls (The Vines)
• September 1 – Chris Cain, American rock bassist (We Are Scientists)
• September 2 – Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
• September 4
  • Ian Grushka (New Found Glory)
  • Lucie Silvas, English singer
• September 6 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer
• September 11
  • Jonny Buckland, British guitarist (Coldplay)
  • Ludacris
• September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter
• September 15 – Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• September 19 – Ioana Maria Lupascu, Romanian pianist
• September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
• September 23 – Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (murdered) (d. 2008)
• October 1 – Owen Biddle, rock bass guitarist (The Roots)
• October 2 – Jeremiah Rangel (Mest)
• October 12 - Young Jeezy, American rapper
• October 13 – Justin Peroff (Broken Social Scene)
• October 16
  • John Mayer, American musician
  • Chris Knapp, The Ataris
  • Joanne Yeoh, Malaysian violinist
• October 17 – Nicole Cabell, American operatic soprano
• October 25 – Yehonathan Gatro, Israeli singer and actor
• November 1 – Alistair Griffin, British singer and songwriter
• November 13
  • Chanel Cole, New Zealand-born singer
  • Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
• November 14 – Obie Trice, African-American rapper
• November 15 – Logan Whitehurst, American one man band
• November 19 – Justin Young, drummer (Treehouse Union, Neves, freelance)
• November 20 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer
• November 30 – Steve Aoki, electro house DJ
• December 1 – Brad Delson (Linkin Park)
• December 7 – Dominic Howard, drummer (Muse)

Deaths

• January 1 – Michael Mann, violinist, son of Thomas Mann
• January 2 – Errol Garner, jazz pianist
• January 23 – Dick Burnett, folk songwriter, 94
• February 8 – Eivind Groven, microtonal composer and music theorist
• February 10 – Grace Williams, composer
• February 12 – Ernst Mehlich, German-Brazilian conductor and composer
• February 26 – Bukka White, blues guitarist and singer
• February 28 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comic actor and singer
• March 10 – E. Power Biggs, organist
• May 22 – Hampton Hawes, jazz pianist
• May 30 – Paul Desmond, jazz saxophonist
• June 5 – Sleepy John Estes, blues guitarist and singer, 78
• June 13 – Matthew Garber, former child star of Mary Poppins, 21 (pancreatitis)
• July 26 – Gena Branscombe, composer and conductor
• August 16 – Elvis Presley, singer, 42 (Heart Attack)
• August 19 – Groucho Marx, comedian, actor, singer and performer
• September 1, Ethel Waters, American blues, jazz and gospel singer, 80
• September 5 – George Barnes, swing jazz guitarist
• September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor
• September 16
  • Marc Bolan, singer-songwriter, 29 (car crash)
  • Maria Callas, operatic soprano, 53 (heart attack)
• September 30 – Mary Ford, guitarist and vocalist, 53 (diabetes-related)
• October 13 – Shirley Brickley, the Orlons, 32 (shot)
• October 14 – Bing Crosby, singer and actor
• October 20 – Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines, members of Lynyrd Skynyrd (Plane crash)
• November 5 – Guy Lombardo, violinist and bandleader, 75
• November 9 – Panagiotis Kapodistrias, actor, script writer
• November 14 – Richard Addinsell, Warsaw Concerto composer
• December 5 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer
• December 25 – Charlie Chaplin, actor and composer
• December 28 – Sam Brown, jazz guitarist
• December 30 – St. Louis Jimmy Oden, blues singer
• date unknown – Jimmy Cooper, hammered dulcimer player

Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1977
• Country Music Association Awards
• Eurovision Song Contest 1977