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AC/DC play the second of five nights at Chequers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
AC/DC play the last of five nights at Chequers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Prog-rockers Yes reach No1 in the UK album charts with Tales From Topographic Oceans.When Bob Dylan and The Band play a second night at Nassau County Coliseum, New York State, USA, Dylan's wife Sara is brought onto the stage where she sits on a sofa throughout the performance.
Bob Dylan and The Band's album Planet Waves enters the UK albums chart, where it will peak at No7 during an eight-week run.
Black Sabbath come to the end of a tour of North America at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, New York State, USA.Folk-protest singer Phil Ochs plays at The Earl Of The Old Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Country blues performer Elly Greenberg plays the first of three nights at CBGBs Club, 315 Bowery at Bleeker, New York City, USA, supported by the "fancy guitar pickin's" of Erik Frandsen.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and several others take part in a somewhat ramshackle, unstructured jam at Lennon's rented beach house in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Television make their debut at CBGB’s club, New York City, USA. According to punk chronicler Clinton Heylin, ‘It was the beginning of a six month period in which post-glam NY rock and roll coalesced into a small but highly active scene. Throughout this period, Television continued to play every Sunday at CBGB, regularly attracting between 20 and 30 people.’ Lavell Crump is born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as rapper, record producer, songwriter and occasional actor David Banner.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the sixth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the ninth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jazz and blues vocalist and recording artist Savannah Churchill dies of pneumonia in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The first known performance of Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run takes place during a show at The Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, during a show headlined by Bonnie Raitt. Journalist Jon Landau reviews the show for The Real Paper, saying 'I saw rock'n'roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.'
John Lee Hooker spends the first of ten days recording his album Free Beer And Chicken for ABC Records in the USA.
Blues singer and guitarist David 'Honeyboy' Edwards records Hambone Blues for Trix Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
When Elvis Presley takes his five year old daughter Lisa Marie to see the Jackson 5 play at the Sahara in Las Vegas, Nevada, she meets Michael Jackson for the first time.
Eric Clapton, on his 461 Tour, plays at Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, Buffalo, New York State, USA. On this date, he is joined on the road by Patti Boyd who has now decided to leave her husband, George Harrison.
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The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the third of seven nights at the Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri.
The three-day long Ozark Music Festival comes to an end at The Fairgrounds, Sedalia, Missouri. Artists appearing over the course of the event have included Jefferson Starship, The Eagles, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bachman Turner Overdirve, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boz Scaggs, Electric Flag, Ted Nugent And The Amboy Dukes, David Bromberg, Leo Kottke, Cactus, Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen. Hosting the event is Wolfman Jack.
John Lennon releases a new single, Whatever Gets You Through The Night b/w Beef Jerky, on Apple Records in the USA.
Gil Turner, a prominent folk singer in the early 60s folk scene in Greenwich Village, New York City, dies. Turner was the first person to record the Bob Dylan songs Blowin' In the Wind and Don't Think Twice.
Bob Dylan records a version of the song You're A Big Girl Now in Studio A, A and R Recording, New York City, but this version is not released.
Bob Dylan is in Columbia A&R Studios, New York City, overseeing organ overdubs by Paul Griffin on the song Idiot Wind, for the album Blood On The Tracks.
When Tom Waits plays at Ebbet's Field, Denver, Colorado, USA, he meets local hipster/dj/musician Chuck E. Weiss. A friendship and a business relationship will blossom, and Weiss will inspire several songs by Waits, including Jitterbug Boy, and one by Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E's In Love.
John Lennon begins five days in Record Plant East Studios, New York City, USA, recording more tracks for his album Rock'n'Roll, which had been abandoned when producer Phil Spector unexpectedly quit the project. The band on these sessions includes guitarists Jesse Ed Davis and Eddie Mottau, pianist Ken Ascher, bassist Klaus Voormann, drummer Jim Keltner and percussionist Arthur Jenkins. They will record versions of the rock'n'roll classics Be-Bop-A-Lula, Stand By Me, Rip It Up/Ready Teddy, Ain't That A Shame, Do You Wanna Dance?, Slippin' And Slidin', Peggy Sue, Bring It On Home To Me/Send Me Some Lovin' and Ya Ya.
John Lennon spends the last of five days in Record Plant East Studios, New York City, USA, recording tracks for his album Rock'n'Roll, which had been abandoned when producer Phil Spector unexpectedly quit the project. The band on these sessions includes guitarists Jesse Ed Davis and Eddie Mottau, pianist Ken Ascher, bassist Klaus Voormann, drummer Jim Keltner and percussionist Arthur Jenkins. 
John Lennon spends some time at Record Plant studios in New York City, USA, mixing his album Rock'n'Roll.
Jazz trombonist (aka George Brunies and Georg Brunis) dies in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He first found success as a jazz trombonist working on the Mississippi Riverboats. He played with Ragbaby Stevens, The New orleans Rhythm Kings, Louis Prima, Ted Lewis, Muggsy Spanier, Eddie Condon and others. He earned himself the nickname "The King Of The Tailgate Trombone".Jan |