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Crosby Stills And Nash record Southbound Train at Wally Heider's Studio,San Francisco, California, USA.

Twenty-six unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders are shot by soldiers of the British Army during a protest in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. The incident will become known as Bloody Sunday and will be recorded in the U2 song Sunday Bloody Sunday. Others who have written songs on this topic include John Lennon, Roy Harper, Christy Moore, The Wolfetones and Cruachan.

Got To Be There, the first solo album by Michael Jackson enters the Billboard US Pop and Black Albums Charts simultaneously, in the USA. It will peak at No3 in the Black Albums chart and No14 in the Pop Chart.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee.



Sutherland Brothers play at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe, as part of the Camden Festival.
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Elton John's fifth album, Honky Chateau, is released on cassette and cartridge by Precision Tapes in the UK.
Michael Jackson's third solo single, I Wanna be Where You Are, on Motown Records, enters the Billboard US Hot 100 singles chart, where it will peak at No16.


Miles Davis comes to the end of recording sessions for his album On The Corner, in Columbia Studios, New York City. The final track Davis works on is Black Satin.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Civic Center Arena, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Lookin' Through The Windows by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, enters the Billboard US Hot 100 Singles Chart, where it will peak at No16.
The Rolling Stones end their 1972 North American tour with the last of three nights at Madison Square Garden, New York City, supported by Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves. The band then throws a party at the St. Regis Hotel, with live music by Muddy Waters and Count Basie. Guests include Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Andy Warhol and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
David Cassidy plays the second of two nights at The Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Brian Cole, bass-player with The Association, dies of a heroin overdose at home in Los Angeles, California. On the same day, The Beach Boys come to the end of recording material for their album Holland in their studio at Baambrugge, just outside Amsterdam, Holland.
Get On The Good Foot by James Brown reaches No1 in the Billboard R'n'B Singles Chart in the USA, a position it will
maintain for a month.
David Bowie releases a new album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, in the USA.
The three-day-long Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival begins on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event is billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people will arrive instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event will become a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League.
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Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival continues into its second day on Bull Island in the Wabash River, Illinois, USA. The event was billed as featuring major bands including Black Sabbath, Santana, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, The Eagles and many more. In the end, over 200,000 people will arrive instead of the 30,000 expected, and the event becomes a disaster, with most of the bands pulling out because of the chaos. Bands who actually do play include Canned Heat, Brownsville Station, Black Oak Arkansas and Pure Prairie League.
The three-day-long
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Five films by John Lennon and Yoko Ono are screened at London Art Spectrum, Alexandra Palace, London, UK.
The Jackson 5 compilation album Greatest Hits enters the UK Top 50 Albums Chart where it will peak at No26.
During a North American tour, Pink Floyd play at The Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The Grateful Dead play the last of three nights at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Bukka White, Big Joe Williams, Big Mama Thornton, Robert Pete Williams, Roosevelt Sykes, Memphis Slim, Johnny Young, W.D.Kent, Billy Davenport, T-bone Walker, Jimmy Rogers, Lightnin' Slim, Whispering Smith and The Jimmy Dawkins Chicago Blues Band play in the American Folk Blues Festival '72 at The Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany, Europe.
Lawrence Hammond (formerly of Mad River) plays at the Freight And Salvage Coffee House, 1827 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA, with his new group The Whiplash Band.
Ten Years After play the second of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
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