Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Random selection from around 580 Facts
Click to filter results

Date:

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

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.
Read More
Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada.
Bob Dylan and The Band play at the Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at the Omni, Atlanta, Georgia.
When Bob Dylan and The Band play a second night at Nassau County Coliseum, USA, Dylan's wife Sara is brought onto the stage where she sits on a sofa throughout the performance.
Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer (ELP) is arrested for skinny dipping in public in a swimming pool at the band’s hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Demba Diop Stadium, Dakar, Senegal, Africa.
Guitarist Eric Bell is reported to have left Thin Lizzy because of health problems, as the band begins a tour of UK college and club dates.
Bob Dylan and The Band play at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Bob Dylan and The Band play at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana.
The Moody Blues play at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Astrodome, Houston, Texas.
10cc play the last of six nights at Richard's, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Alehouse play at The Brunel Rooms Amphitheatre, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. The band includes guitarist Dave Gregory, later to play with XTC, and vocalist Rod Goodway, formerly of The Pack.
Yes play at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, supported by John Martyn. Ticket price is $6.60.
Read More
Cockney Rebel play at The Greyhound, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan is in the middle of a period of two months of painting and philosophy lessons in New York City, USA, with Norman Raeben. His teachings have a great impact on Dylan, who says it helps him learn to write songs again.
Music mogul Robert Stigwood throws a reception at The China Garden restaurant, London, UK, to announce that Eric Clapton is about to fly to the USA to make a new album. Among the 100 guests are Pete Townshend, Elton John, Long John Baldry and deejay Alan Freeman. Later, Stigwood hosts another reception for Clapton at his home, with forty guests including Ric Grech and Ronnie Wood.
Read More
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the tenth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Television play at CBGB’s, New York City, USA, supported by The Ramones.
Read More
Chicago play at The Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, Texas, USA.
The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens public impeachment hearings in Washington DC, USA, against President Richard Nixon for his involvement in The Watergate Scandal. Watergate will inspire songwriters to refer to it in the lyrics of many songs, including Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd (1974), I'm So Bored With The USA by The Clash (1977), and Bicycle Race by Queen (1978). Another song telling the story of Watergate in greater detail is The White House Un-American Activities Rag (1974) by Dan Murphy.
The Rolling Stones spend the second of six days of recording at Island Recording Studios, London, UK.
The day after his father's funeral, bandleader, composer and arranger Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington, takes over the Ellington band and leaves with it on a tour of Bermuda.
Marlene Dietrich plays at the The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The live album Before The Flood by Bob Dylan and The Band is awarded a gold record in the USA by the R.I.A.A..
Mac Davis debuts his own summer variety music show on NBC TV in the USA.
Guitarist and fiddle player Don Rich, who played in Buck Owens' backing group, The Buckaroos, dies aged 32 in a motorcycle accident on State Route 99 north of Bakersfield, California, USA.
Born With A Smile On My Face by Stephanie De Sykes enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No2. The song is written by Devizes-born Simon May.
Record producer Phil Spector, having recovered from his recent automobile accident, meets up with Dion in the planning stages of producing an album for the 50s rock'n'roller.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the second of seven nights at the Front Row Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the third of seven nights at the Front Row Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio.
Born With A Smile On My Face by Stephanie De Sykes peaks at No2 in the UK singles chart. The song is written by Devizes-born Simon May.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the second of fourteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Herbie Hancock plays at the Music Inn, Lenox, Massachisetts, USA.
Jefferson Starship, the mutated version of Jefferson Airplane, releases its first album, Dragon Fly.
Little Feat play at The Bottom Line, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Deadly Nightshade.
Bob Dylan records a version of the song You're A Big Girl Now in Studio A, A & R Recording, New York City, USA, but this version is not released.
John Lennon releases a new LP, Walls And Bridges, on Apple Records in the USA.
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.
Just a few months after they were married on the stage of Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, Kathy Silva sues Sly Stone of San Francisco band Sly and the Family Stone for divorce.
Led Zeppelin hold the UK launch for their new record label, Swan Song, at Chislehurst Caves, Surrey, England, UK.
The Ramones play at CBGB’s, New York City, USA.
The Jackson 5 play at The Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA.
Shirley Jones, star of tv-promoted manufactured pop group The Partridge Family, meets tv producer Marty Ingels on the lawn of tv star Michael Landon's home. Jones and Ingels will marry three years later.
Twiggy is starring in Cinderella at The Casino Theatre, London, UK.
Black Sabbath play at L’Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.
Bob Dylan spends the first of two days in Sound 80 studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his brother David, re-recording parts of his fifteenth studio album, Blood On The Tracks which he had been unhappy with.
Mr D's Collection No1, the first album to collect Bob Dylan rarities together, is released as a limited edition album in Japan.
Jan