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Lynyrd Skynyrd play in Macon, Georgia, USA.
Christopher John Cheney [aka Chris Cheney], guitarist and lead vocalist in Australian rock band The Living End, is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Douglas Robb, singer of rock band Hoobastank is born in in Agoura Hills, California, USA.
Kiss play at The Pavillion, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Yes release a new single, Soon/Sound Chaser on Atlantic Records in the UK.
Status Quo play at Alhambra, Bordeaux, France, Europe.
Kingfish play at Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tom Jenkinson is born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK, Europe. He will find international success as electronic dance music musician Squarepusher.
Alvin Lee And Company play at Lisner Auditorium, WashingtonDC, USA.
Louis Jordan dies of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, USA, aged 66.
John Lennon releases his sixth LP, Rock'n'Roll, on Apple Records in the USA. The album features a selection of rock'n'roll era covers, and is produced, in part, by Phil Spector.
Delta blues slide guitarist Johnny Shines plays the first of three nights at Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Asia. The shows are recorded and will be released as the LP Live Recording At Yubin Chokin Hall.
Influential underground radio deejay Tom Donahue dies in San Francisco, California, USA. He had started the city's first progressive music station, KMPX, in 1967.
Brian Eno records the ambient systems music piece, Discreet Music, in his own recording studio.
It is announced that 26-year-old bass guitarist Alan Longmuir is leaving teen sensations The Bay City Rollers on the grounds that he is considered too old to remain in the band. He will return to the group in 1978.
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is born in North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
10cc release their biggest hit, I'm Not In Love, in the UK.
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Peter Frampton plays at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA. A recording of this concert will be released as the massively successful double album Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California, USA.
Ducks Deluxe play their last ever live show, at The Marquee Club, London, UK.
The Ramones and Blondie play at CBGB's, New York City, USA.
Argent play at The New Victoria, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dirty Tricks.
Bob Dylan is working on Romance In Durango, One More Cup Of Coffee, Hurricane and other songs in Studio E, Columbia Records Studios, New York City, USA, during sessions for the album Desire.
Bob Dylan records Isis, Sara and other tracks during his fourth recording session for the album Desire, at Columbia Records Studios, New York City.
Hopeful young UK band The Jam audition for a slot on tv talent show Opportunity Knocks. They fail.
Three Dog Night play as part of the The Summer Of Stars concert series in Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eric Clapton enters the UK singles chart with his version of Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door, which will peak at No38.
Weather Report play at The Autostade, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Linda Ronstadt plays the first of four nights at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
Columbia Records release a promo-only single, Million Dollar Bash by Bob Dylan and The Band, in the USA.
Van Der Graaf Generator play at The Sports Centre, Bracknell, England, UK, Europe.
Ornette Coleman Day is proclaimed by the mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, USA, and Coleman is presented with a key to the city.
Roy Orbison plays at The Festival Theatre, Paignton, England, UK, Europe.
George Harrison enters the Billboard US Top 40 albums chart with Extra Texture (Read All About It) which will peak at No8 during a seven-week run.
Janis Ian performs At Seventeen on US tv show Saturday Night Live.
Todd Rundgren plays at Salle De La Mutualite, Paris, France, Europe.
The Ramones sign a recording contract with Sire Records.
John Fogerty, former leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, is interviewed on KSAN radio in San Francisco, California, USA.
Bob Dylan is rehearsing in New York City for his Rolling Thunder Revue - planned as a traveling cavalcade of Dylan and his long-time musical comrades.
Bob Dylan turns up at the Other End club in Greenwich Village, New York City, to watch singer-songwriter David Blue perform. At the gig, Dylan meets Ronee Blakly, a talented actress/singer who had made such an impression in Robert Altman's three-hour cult classic, Nashville. Blakly joins Dylan on stage for a few duets at the end of Blue's show.
When Bob Dylan attends the 61st birthday party of Mike Porco, owner of Gerde's Folk City, in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, he perfoms a duet with Joan Baez. This is also the first occasion on which Dylan meets Bruce Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both Newsweek and Time magazines in the USA on the same day. Musicians rarely appeared on the cover of either magazine, so to be featured on both on the same day was quite remarkable.
Sky High by Jigsaw enters the UK pop singles chart, where it will peak at No9 during an eleven-week run on the chart.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, plays at The Technical University in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
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On a day off from his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, Bob Dylan visits the gravesite of beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, near Lowell, Massachusetts, USA.
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The Who play the first of two nights at Friedrich Ebert Halle, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Europe.
Matt Montgomery is born in Houston, Texas, USA. Also known as Piggy D, he will find success a guitarist in horror-punk band Wednesday 13 and as bassist for Rob Zombie.
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue plays at the Civic Center, Augusta, Maine.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, plays at the City Coliseum, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. (1975).
Steve Harris, formerly bass player with Smiler, forms his new band, Iron Maiden, with iuts first line-up consisting of Paul Mario Day on vocals, Dave Sullivan and Terry Rance on guitars and Ron Matthews on drums.
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