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Liverpool band The Fourmost are appearing as The Four Policemen in the pantomime Aladdin, at The Grand Theatre, Swansea, Wales. The Princess in this production, Nicky Stevens, will later become a member of The Brotherhood of Man.
Pink Floyd come to the end of two weeks of rehearsals of a new suite of music which will become their album Dark Side Of The Moon, in Bermondsey, South London, UK.
McKenna Mendelson Mainline play as part of the Bump'n'Grind Revue at the Victory Burlesque Theatre, Toronto, Canada. The event is recorded by GRT Records and released as an LP.
Got To Be There, the first solo hit single by Michael Jackson enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No5 during an eleven-week run. On the same day, Michael performs live with The Jackson 5 at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cat Mother and The All-Night Newsboys play at The Corn Exchange, Devizes, supported by Jimmy and Vella.
Chris Wright, co-founder of Chrysalis Records, marries his girlfriend Chelle at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England, UK.
Stevie Wonder plays at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Bobby Whitlock.
Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin peaks at No47 in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.
Curved Air, Jon Lord And Friends, Sandy Denny, Audience and Renaissance play in a Benefit Concert in aid of Cyrenians, at Alexandra Palace, London, UK. Barclay James Harvest are billed to appear as 'Special Guest Stars", but crowd problems cause the concert to overrun and they are squeezed out of the schedule.
Led Zeppelin record an instrumental, Walter's Walk, using the Rolling Stones' Mobile studio at Stargroves, East Woodhay, Berkshire, UK.
The 2nd British Rock Meeting takes place at Insel Grun, Germersheim, Germany, Europe. It is a three day event featuring, over the course of the three days, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Faces, The Kinks, Humble Pie, The Incredible String Band, Country Joe McDonald, Uriah Heep, Osibisa, Atomic Rooster, Strawbs, Curved Air, Tom Paxton, Linda Lewis, the Roy Young Band, Pacific Gas And Electric, The Buddy Miles Express, Family, Rory Gallagher, Savoy Brown, Status Quo, Beggar's Opera, Brinsley Schwarz, Sam Apple Pie, Nazareth, New Riders Of The Piurple Sage, Billy Joel, Spencer Davis, East Of Eden, Lindisfarne and more. An audience of 100,000 is reported to have attended.Lookin' Through the Windows by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, on Motown Records enters the Billboard US albums chart inj the USA where it will peak at No7 during a 34-week run.
The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers band, Doug Sahm and Wet Willie play the first of two nights at RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington DC, USA.Pink Floyd are in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, UK, working on material for the album Dark Side Of The Moon.
Led Zeppelin play to a capacity crowd of 16,000 on the first of two nights at Nassau County Coliseum, Uniondale, New York State.
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The Faces (including Rod Stewart) play at The War Memorial, Syracuse, New York State, USA, supported by Badfinger.Michael Jackson releases a new single, Ben, on Motown Records in the USA. It will peak at No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 Singles chart. The song is the theme to a movie about a pet rat, also called Ben.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the first of two nights at International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
David Bromberg is recording tracks for his Columbia Records album Wanted Dead Or Alive, with members of The Grateful Dead acting as session players. On the same day, The New York Dolls play at the Mercer Arts Center, in the Grand Central Hotel, New York City, and catch the ear of Mercury Records A&R man Paul Nelson, who decides to sign the band to the label.
Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Peter Fampton and others spend the second of two days filming for a comedy-horror movie called Count Downe, at Surrey Docks, London. For this day's shoot, Keith Moon of The Who has been replaced by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.
Neil Diamond plays the first of ten sold-out nights at The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles. During this run, he will record the tracks for his live album Hot August Night.
The Beach Boys play live on Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, with The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.
A busy day in New York City, USA. The big event of the day is at Madison Square Garden, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono play at the One On One Benefit for Willowbank Hospital, supported by Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Sha Na Na and Elephant's Memory. One the same day, however, The Kinks play in Central Park and Fleetwood Mac play in Gaelic Park. At club level, Jackson Browne and David Blue play the first of six nights at The Bitter End, while Bruce Springsteen takes the stage at Max's Kansas City.
Peter Criss places an ad in Rolling Stone magazine which reads "Experienced Rock And Roll drummer looking for original group doing soft & hard music." He will become the drummer in Kiss.A new music venue, The People’s Ballroom, opens in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, with a concert featuring The Wild Boys, The Mojo Boogie Band and Guardian Angel.
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Bob Dylan joins John Prine for three songs during his show at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Michael Jackson's album Ben enters the Billboard Top 40 albums chart in the USA, where it will peak at No5 during a fifteen-week run.During a North American tour, Pink Floyd play at The Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Duke Ellington plays at a private party in the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio.
San Francisco hippy pioneers The Grateful Dead play the second of three nights at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Grateful Dead play the last of three nights at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Moons play at the Freight And Salvage Coffee House, 1827 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA.
Sgt. Norman Pilcher of the Metropolitan Drug Squad in London, UK, famed for his high profile busts of pop stars including Donovan, Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and John Lennon of The Beatles, is arrested for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice after it was alleged he had committed perjury. In September 1973 he will be convicted and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Lookin' Through The Windows by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, enters the UK Top 50 Singles Chart, where it will peak at No9 during an eleven-week run.
During their first-ever European tour The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London.
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