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Earth, Wind And Fire, with Linda Hopkins and The Soul Quintet, perform Elements on the tv series Soul!, in the USA.
Relay by The Who enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No21. On the same day, it peaks at No39 in the USA.
National Lampoon magazine's comedy revue, Lemmings, opens at the off-Broadway Village Gate nightclub in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Much of the revue is given over to an elaborate satire of Woodstock, featuring parodies of popular music figures of the day, including Bob Dylan and John Denver. The show, which will run for over 350 performances, stars John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest.
Country Joe McDonald plays the first of two nights at Mandrake's, Berkeley, California, USA.
Country Joe McDonald plays the first of two nights at Mandrake's, Berkeley, California, USA.
Maurice Kinn, Executive Director of UK rock paper the New Musical Express (NME), retires after more than thirty years. His retirement party is attended by Tony Bennett, Vera Lynn, Max Bygraves, Noddy Holder of Slade and John Entwistle of The Who.String Driven Thing play at the Alex Disco, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Black Sabbath come to the end of a European tour at L’Olympia, Paris, France, Europe. On this show they are supported by Badger.
Pink Floyd begin a tour of the USA for their album Dark Side Of The Moon, at The Madison Coliseum, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
The Sutherland Brothers And Quiver play at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
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.
Neil Young plays at Okland Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA, supported by Linda Ronstadt. At this show, during a performance of the song Southern Man, a fan is badly beaten by a scurity guard in front of the stage. Neil Young, sickened by the attack, leaves the stage and does not return.
The Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Waylon Jennings play at the Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Bruce Berry, a long-time friend and roadie to Neil
Young, dies of an overdose of heroin, just a few months after
Crazy Horse songwriter, singer and guitarist Danny Whitten has
met the same fate. Bruce Berry's story has been immortalized in the lyrics to Young's song Tonight's The Night.
Weather Report play the third of five nights at Tulagi's, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
American teenager Marlene Raymond sets a new world record for limbo dancing, when she dances under a flaming bar set at just six and one eighth inches.
Led Zeppelin play the first of two nights at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Asleep At The Wheel play at The Clarence White, guitarist with The Byrds/Kentucky Colonels, is buried in Lancaster, California, aged 29, several days after being killed by a car.
Darren Burn releases his debut single, Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart, on EMI Records in the UK. He is being launched as a British teenybop idol, but when his career fails to take off, he will become depressed. By the age of 30, unable to cope with the failure of his career, he will take an overdose of his Dotheipin anti-depressant tablets and die.
Jim Croce is awarded a US gold disc by the R.I.A.A. for his hit single Bad Bad Leroy Brown. On the same day, Led Zeppelin play at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, South Carolina.
During rehearsals for the album Band On The Run, guitarist Henry McCullough quits Paul McCartney's group Wings.
The classic line-up of 10cc plays its first-ever live gig together, at The Palace Lido, Douglas, Isle Of Man, UK.Gram Parsons of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, visits his doctor in Los Angeles, California, USA, and is diagnosed with a left middle ear infection, a chest cold and a cough. He is given an injection of penicillin and B-12 as an appetite stimulant.
On their European Tour 1973, The Rolling Stones play at The Brondby Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.The Rolling Stones complete their 42-show European Tour 1973 with a gig at The Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, Europe.Robin Trower plays at The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with Commander Cody and Foghat.
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At the height of The Watergate Scandal, beleaguered United States President Richard Nixon tells the Associated Press, "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook". The final phrase of Nixon's monstrous lie will provide the inspiration for numerous sample-based dance music tracks by DJ Gurr, The Tricky Dicks, Glaciers Dubstep and others. Nixon's duplicity has also been the subject of numerous songs including You Haven't Done Nothin' by Stevie Wonder, Tricky Dicky by Country Joe McDonald, Postcards From Richard Nixon by Elton John, and The Love of Richard Nixon by The Manic Street Preachers.
Emerson, Lake And Palmer release their fourth studio album, Brain Salad Surgery, on Manticore Records in the UK.The album Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings enters the Billboard US album chart where it will peak at No1.
I Can’t Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA where it will peak at No38. It features a distinctive raindrop effect produced by a new instrument called the electric timbale.
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