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Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Bob Dylan and The Band play the second of two nights at Montreal Forum, Montreal, Canada.
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.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Demba Diop Stadium, Dakar, Senegal, Africa.

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.

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.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the tenth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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 United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens public impeachment hearings in Washington DC, USA, against President Richard Nixon for his involvement in

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.
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..
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.
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.
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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.


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.
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.

Led Zeppelin hold the UK launch for their new record label, Swan Song, at Chislehurst Caves, Surrey, England, UK.
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.
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.
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