1973 in music

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1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Published popular music
5 Classical music
6 Opera
7 Musical theater
8 Musical films
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Awards

Events

January-February

January 9 - Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones' plans to tour the Orient.
January 14 - Elvis Presley's Aloha From Hawaii television special is seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewers
January 14 - Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is arrested for drug possession in California.
January 18 - The Rolling Stones benefit concert for Nicaraguan earthquake victims raises over $350,000. (Mick Jagger adds $150,000 of his own money to the total in May). On December 22, 1972, an earthquake destroyed Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.
January 30 - KISS performs their first concert, at the Coventary Club in Queens.
February 14 - David Bowie collapses from exhaustion after a performance at New York's Madison Square Garden

March-April

March 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.
March 5 - The late Jimi Hendrix's former personal manager, Michael Jeffrey, is killed in a plane crash. Jeffrey was travelling from Majorca to England. All passengers on board the plane were killed.
March 6 - The New York Office of the US Immigration Department cancels John Lennon's visa extension, after it having been granted five days earlier.
March 7 - The director of talent acquisition at Columbia Records, John Hammond suffers a non-fatal heart attack following a performance by one of his most recent finds, Bruce Springsteen.
March 8 - Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm.
March 24 - Lou Reed is bitten by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, New York.
April 3 - Capitol Records releases two greatest hits collections, The Beatles /1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970, commonly referred to as the Red and Blue albums.
April 16 - Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul McCartney airs. The special includes performances by McCartney and Wings.
Opening of CBGB's

May-July

May 9 - Mick Jagger adds $150,000 of his own money to the $350,000 raised by the Rolling Stones' January 18th benefit concert for the victims of the Nicaraguan earthquake.
May 25 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells, the first release on Richard Branson's newly launched Virgin label.
film The Sting revives interest in the ragtime music of Scott Joplin
July 3 - David Bowie 'retires' his stage persona 'Ziggy Stardust' in front of a shocked audience at the Hammersmith Odeon at the end of his British tour.
July 28 - Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.

unknown dates

Television forms
Journey forms
KISS forms
AC/DC forms
U.F.O. signs a contract with Chrysalis Records
The Ronettes break up, and Ronnie Bennett begins a solo career
The London Symphony Orchestra becomes the first British Orchestra to be invited to take part in the Salzburg Festival.
The Open Mind disbands

Albums released

Ring Ring - ABBA
Aerosmith - Aerosmith
Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
Life in a Tin Can - The Bee Gees
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
Pin Ups - David Bowie
Never Turn Your Back on a Friend - Budgie
Paris 1919 - John Cale
Future Days - Can (band)
Now and Then - Carpenters
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Muscle of Love - Alice Cooper
Sings In Italian For You - Dalida
Julien - Dalida
Who Do We Think We Are - Deep Purple
Cosmic Wheels - Donovan
Live in Japan: Spring Tour 1973 - Donovan
Essence to Essence - Donovan
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Faust Tapes - Faust (band)
Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
Angel Clare - Art Garfunkel
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
Flying Teapot - Gong
Call Me - Al Green
A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player - Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Larks Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
Smokes - Lynyrd Skynyrd
African Herbsman - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney and Wings
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
Hard Nose the Highway - Van Morrison
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
The Harder They Come - Original Soundtrack
Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite - Elvis Presley
GP and Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Queen - Queen (debut)
Long Hard Climb - Helen Reddy
Berlin - Lou Reed
Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
Stranded - Roxy Music
Ragas - Ravi Shankar
There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back - Frank Sinatra
Fresh - Sly & the Family Stone
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band (debut)
The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
Raw Power - The Stooges
Closing Time - Tom Waits
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Rick Wakeman
Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel
Quadrophenia - The Who
They Only Come Out At Night - Edgar Winter Group
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes

Top hits on record

"Cassandra" - Sherbet
"I Am Pegasus" - Ross Ryan
"So Much Love (In My Heart)" - Mr George
"You Don't Own Me" - Ormsby Brothers
"Suzie Darlin'" - Barry Crocker
"Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)" - ABBA
"Dream On" - Aerosmith
"Life On Mars" - David Bowie
"Sorrow" - David Bowie
"Coast To Coast" - Ducks Deluxe
"Angie " - The Rolling Stones
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" - Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
"You Can't Get Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones
"Loves Me Like a Rock" - Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
"Kodachrome" - Paul Simon
"Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - Paul Simon
"Whisky In The Jar" - Thin Lizzy
"The Cisco Kid" - War)
"Paroles... Paroles..." - Dalida & Alain Delon
"Pour ne pas vivre seul" - Dalida
"Vado Via" - Dalida
"Je suis malade" - Dalida
"Il venait d'avoir 18 ans" - Dalida
"Playground in My Mine" - Clint Holmes
"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - Stevie Wonder
"Me and Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul
"Will It Go Around in Circles" - Billy Preston
"Photograph" - Ringo Starr
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Wizzard
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
"Hocus Pocus" - Focus
"Slyvia" - Focus
"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" - Elton John
"Helen Wheels" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Live and Let Die" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"All The Way From Memphis" - Mott The Hoople
"Looking For A Kiss" - New York Dolls
"Touch Me in the Morning" - Diana Ross
"Get Up Stand Up" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Cum On Feel The Noize" - Slade
"Merry Xmas Everybody" - Slade
"5:15" - The Who
"Relay" - The Who
"Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Group
"Ramblin' Man" - Allman Brothers Band
"Radar Love" - Golden Earring
"Keep On Truckin' " - Eddie Kendricks
"Delta Dawn" - Helen Reddy
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Roberta Flack
"Higher Ground" - Stevie Wonder
"I'm The Leader Of The Gang(I Am)" - Gary Glitter
"My Love" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"Why Me" - Kris Kristofferson
"Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" - Tony Orlando & Dawn
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
"Step Into Christmas" - Elton John
"The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
"Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
"D'yer Mak'er" - Led Zeppelin
"Top of the World" - Carpenters
"The Morning After" - Maureen McGovern
"I'm Just A Singer(In A Rock And Roll Band)" - The Moody Blues
"Keep Yourself Alive" - Queen
"Nutbush City Limits" - Ike and Tina Turner

Published popular music

"And I Love You So" w.m. Don McLean
"Candle in the Wind" w. Bernie Taupin m. Elton John
"I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song" w.m. Jim Croce
"I've Got To Use My Imagination" w.m. Gerry Goffin & Barry Goldberg
"Last Song" w.m. Lawrence Wayne Evoy
"Liaisons" w.m. Stephen Sondheim from the musical A Little Night Music
"Midnight Train To Georgia" w.m. Jim Weatherly
"Nadia's Theme" m. Barry DeVorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr., from the TV soap opera The Young and the Restless
"(Say Has Anybody Seen) My Sweet Gypsy Rose" w.m. Irwin Levine & L. Russell Brown
"Piano Man" w.m. Billy Joel
"Send In The Clowns" w.m. Stephen Sondheim from the musical A Little Night Music
"Stuck In The Middle With You" w.m. Joe Egan & Gerry Rafferty
"There Used To Be A Ballpark" w.m. Joe Raposo
"Top Of The World" w.m. John Bettis & Richard Carpenter
"The Way We Were" w. Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman m. Marvin Hamlisch from the film The Way We Were
"Yesterday Once More" w.m. John Bettis & Richard Carpenter