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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin catches the flu on the same day that the band plays at City Hall, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
Chicken Shack play at Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland.
Blood, Sweat And Tears play in North Mesquite High School, Dallas, Texas, USA. The show is recorded for a King Biscuit Flower Hour Broadcast.
Led Zeppelin play at the Old Refectory, Southampton University, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Chuck Berry plays at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK, supported by Fumble.
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Stealer's Wheel play at Chippenham College Of Education, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK.
Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA. Singer Lori Lieberman wrote the song in 1972 after being inspired by seeing Don McLean perform live at The Troubadour Club in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Old And In The Way, a bluegrass band featuring Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead, play a live set at KSAN-FM Radio studios in San Francisco, California, USA.
Jazz pianist Cecil Taylor plays at Antioch College, Ohio, USA.
Black Sabbath play at The City Hall, Newcastle, UK, supported by Badger and Necromandus.
A new music venue, The Brunel Rooms, opens in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. It will become a well-established club on the circuit during the late seventies with bands including The Ramones, Talking Heads and XTC playing there.
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Pink Floyd release the album Dark Side Of The Moon in the USA on Harvest Records.
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band plays at Nottingham College of Further Education, Nottingham, England, UK.
Blackfoot Sue play at The Caledonian, Inverness, Scotland, UK.
Michael Jackson sings his hit song Ben, which has been nominated for (but does not win) a Best Song Award at the 45th Academy Awards in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California. Diana Ross attends because she has been nominated for the Best Actress Award for her role in Lady Sings The Blues, but she loses to Liza Minelli for Cabaret. Frank Sinatra is among the presenters of awards and also attending are Sonny And Cher.
Phil Ochs plays at The Lion's Share, San Anselmo, California, USA.
Roxy Music play the second of two nights at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
Columbia Records release a Hall Of Fame reissue single of Bob Dylan's Just Like A Woman and I Want You, in the USA.
On their Get Me A Ladder Tour, Emerson, Lake And Palmer play in The Velodromo Viorelli, Milan, Italy, Europe.
Larry Wellington, who found success in the 1930s as the accordionist with Louise Massey And The Westerners, dies in the USA.
Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin reaches No1 in the Billboard albums chart in the USA.
Deep Purple play the last of three nights of shows at the Felt Forum, New York City, USA, supported by Rory Gallagher.
Led Zeppelin play in The Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Weather Report play the third of five nights at Tulagi's, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Asleep At The Wheel play at The Record Plant, Sausalito, California, USA.
Country music artist Shannon Lawson is born in Taylorsville, Kentucky, USA. In 2008, she will co-write Like I Never Broke Her Heart by former Alabama lead singer Randy Owen and in the same year she will co-write James Otto's single These Are the Good Ole Days.
Clarence White, guitarist with The Byrds/Kentucky Colonels, is buried in Lancaster, California, aged 29, several days after being killed by a car.
The Drifters and Pete Sinfield appear on BBC-2 tv show The Old Grey Whistle Test, recorded at BBC tv centre in London, UK.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the second of two nights at International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Silverhead, Flash, Back Door and Beckett play at Alexandra Palace, London, UK. Beck, Bogert And Appice were originally booked to top the bill but cancelled when Tim Bogart was injured in a motor-cycle crash.
Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead is suitably embarrassed when a naked girl jumps out of a birthday cake which has been wheeled onstage at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, during a celebration gig to mark his 31st birthday.
The Mercer Arts Center, launching pad for the New York Dolls, Wayne County, Teenage Lust and others, is destroyed when the elderly, decaying building which it occupies, the Broadway Central Hotel, collapses on Amity Street, New York City, USA.
Wishbone Ash play at Alexandra Palace, London, UK. Also on the bill are Bedlam, McGuinness Flint, Climax Blues Band, Vinegar Joe and Fumble.
Donald Peers, for many years Britain's most popular male vocalist, dies aged 65 in a nursing home in Brighton, UK.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Convention Center, Fresno, California.
The re-formed Mountain, featuring guitarist Leslie West, record the album Twin Peaks live at Konenkin Hall, Osaka, Japan.
Bruce Springsteen's second album, The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, is released on Columbia Records in the USA.
Status Quo play at The Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales.
Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan enters the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart where it will peak at No11 during an eleven -week stay.
On their European Tour 1973, The Rolling Stones play at The Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden, Europe.
On their European Tour 1973, The Rolling Stones play at The Forest National, Brussels, Belgium, Europe.
John Lennon releases the LP Mind Games on Apple Records in the USA.
The Doobie Brothers play at Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Deep Purple.
Traffic in San Francisco, California, USA, is backed up for five blocks from one post office, because of mail-order demand for Bob Dylan concert tickets, which have gone on sale today.
The New York Dolls play at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.
Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones attends a party with John Lennon in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bob Dylan's album Dylan is awarded a Gold Disc in the USA.
The album Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings enters the Billboard US album chart where it will peak at No1.
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