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Patti Smith and Yoko Ono take part in the annual New Year's Day Extravaganza organised by the New York Poetry Project at St Mark's Church, New York City, USA.
Deep Purple is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for their eleventh album Stormbringer.
The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat and Tower Of Power play in The Warner Brothers Music Show at The Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
The Patti Smith Group plays at CBGB's Club, New York City, USA, for the first time. Gig: Feb.
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Supertramp, led by Swindon-born Rick Davies, enter the singles chart for the first time with Dreamer, which will peak at No13.
The Grateful Dead begin recording their eighth studio album, Blues for Allah at Ace's, Mill Valley, California, USA.
Chicago-blues duo Homesick James and Snooky
Pryor record Crossroads, Careless Love, Nothing But Trouble and other tracks for Caroline
Records, at Chalk Farm Studios, Chalk Farm, London, UK. The
tracks will be released on the LP Homesick James And Snooky Pryor.
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.
Ken Russell's film Tommy, based on The Who's concept LP of the same name, opens at cinemas in the USA.Jackie
Blue by the The Ozark
Mountain Daredevils enters the Billboard US Top 40 Singles
Chart where it will peak at No3 during a 12-week run.
Quincy Jones records Hummin', Ground Hog and Country Preacher for CTI Records at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Bebop jazz trumpeter and composer Benny Harris dies in San Francisco, California, USA.
Black Oak Arkansas play at The Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
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When Victoria Spivey and Muddy Waters play at The Bottom Line, Greenwich Village, New York City, Bob Dylan unexpectedly joins them to play harmonica on several songs.
When Ramblin' Jack Elliot plays at The Other End in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, Bob Dylan joins him on stage.
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The Rolling Stones play in the Memorial Stadium, Liberty Bowl,
Memphis, Tennessee, USA, supported by The Charlie Daniels Band, The J Geils Band, The Meters and Furry Lewis. A plan to have Mick Jagger arrive on stage riding an elephant has to be abandoned when the weight of the animal causes the stage to collapse.
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Bob Dylan's album The Basement Tapes enters the UK albums chart, where it will peak at No8 during a ten-week run.
Because of a blood clot, the heart of Paul Kossoff, formerly of Free but latterly with Back Street Crawler, stops beating for a full thirty-five minutes at Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK. He goes into a coma, and is pronounced clinically dead but, against all the odds, recovers.
San Francisco band The Grateful Dead release a new album, Blues For Allah, in the USA on Grateful Dead Records.George Harrison enters the UK albums chart with Extra Texture (Read All About It), which will peak at No16 during a four-week run.
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The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade of Bob Dylan and his long-time musical comrades, plays its first show, at the War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
While filming scenes for his movie, Renaldo And Clara, in a diner in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA, Bob Dylan plays an alchemist and beat poet Allen Ginsberg portrays the emperor of a bankrupt empire.On a beach in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, a Cherokee Indian chief named Rolling Thunder directs a ceremony of prayers for Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue rock tour troupe.Arlo Guthrie turns up to perform at The Civic Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No1.
Singer Feargal Sharkey is invited to audition for The Undertones in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He gets the job.
ZZ Top play at The Public Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, supported by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Poco.The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, plays two shows in one day at The Boston Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA..
Joni Mitchell and Roberta Flack turn up for Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour show at the State Prison, Clinton, New Jersey, where inmates include convicted murderer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter.
On their Feel Like Coming 'Ome tour, The Who play at Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.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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