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On their Crisis? What Crisis? tour, Supertramp play at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Bad Company play at The Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Back Street Crawler. This will prove to be the final live performances of Back Street Crawler and its guitarist Paul Kossoff.
The Jerry Garcia Band plays at Lane County Fairgrounds, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Lyricist Ray Gilbert dies aged 63 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Probably best-known for his lyric to the song Zip A Dee Doo Dah in the 1946 Disney movie Song Of The South, he also translated many of Antonio Carlos Jobim's songs into English.
On their Gimme Back My Bullets tour, Lynyrd Skynyrd play at Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA.
Dexter Gordon plays at Jazzland, Vienna, Austria, Europe. His band on this gig features Art Farmer (fh), Horace Parlan (p), Wayne Darling (b) and Tony Inzalaco (d).
Can play a live concert in Poitiers, France, Europe.
David Bowie plays at the International Amphitheater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The album Kingfish by Kingfish, featuring guitarist Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, is released in the USA.
James Ivy Richardson II is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success under the name J. Ivy, as a performance poet, spoken word artist, recording artist, song writer and author.
German metal band Scorpions begin a UK tour at Keele University.
On their T.N.T. tour, AC/DC play at St Albans High School, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Santana play at Kokura Shimin Kaikan, Kitakyushu, Japan, Asia.
Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes play at The Agora, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Status Quo play the second of three nights at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Popular singer Natalia Kukulska is born in Warsaw, Poland, Europe.
On their A Night At the Opera tour, Queen play at St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse play at Aichiken Taiikukan, Nagoya, Japan, Asia.
Stormin' Norman and Susie play at The Club, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Olivia Newton-John plays at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Soul and jazz vocalist Frances Nero marries Evelton Hines.
On their Enz Of The Earth tour, Split Enz play at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania.
On his Pacific And Europe Tour, Frank Zappa plays at Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Hans Koller Free Sound record Kalabash, Turkish Cross Colour, Song For Eva and other tracks at Tonstudio Zuckerfabrik, Stuttgart, Germany, Europe.
The Little River Band plays at The Hilton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
The New Tony Williams Lifetime play at Gabe And Walkers, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
At the instigation of imprisoned jazz singer Flora Purim, a concert is staged in the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island in Los Angeles, California, USA, featuring Purim with Cannonball Adderley, George Duke, Airto Moreira, Miroslav Vitouš, Raul de Souza and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler.
Robert Palmer and Mose Allison play at The Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida, USA.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.