1973 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular songs 5 Musical theater 6 Musical films 7 Births 8 Deaths 9 Awards 9.1 Grammy Awards 9.2 Country Music Association Awards 9.3 Eurovision Song Contest

Events

• 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 1 - The New York Joffrey Ballet's Deuce Coupe Ballet opens. The ballet is set entirely around music by The Beach Boys.
• March 5 - Jimi Hendrix's 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 acquistion 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 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 28 - Watkins Glen concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead.
• 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.

• Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
• Life in a Tin Can - The Bee Gees
• Paris 1919 - John Cale
• Now and Then - The Carpenters
• The Singles - 1969-1973 - The Carpenters
• The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
• Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
• Made in Japan - Deep Purple
• Desperado - The Eagles
• Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
• Angel Clare - Art Garfunkel
• Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
• Flying Teapot - Gong
• Angel's Egg - Gong
• Call Me - Al Green
• Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
• A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
• Piano Man - Billy Joel
• Don't Shoot I'm Only the Piano Player - Elton John
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
• Moontan - Golden Earring
• Raw Power - Iggy & the Stooges
• Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin
• Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd (debut)
• Catch a Fire - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney & Wings
• Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite - Elvis Presley
• Bean Blossom - Bill Monroe
• New York Dolls - New York Dolls
• Let Me Be There - Olivia Newton-John
• Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
• GP and Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
• The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
• Sweet Revenge - John Prine
• Queen - Queen (debut)
• Ragas - Ravi Shankar
• Berlin - Lou Reed
• For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
• There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
• Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones
• Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey - 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
• Fresh Spinners - Sly & the Family Stone
• Raw Power - The Stooges
• Closing Time - Tom Waits
• Quadrophenia - The Who
• Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
• Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes

• "Loves Me Like a Rock" - Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
• "Kodachrome" - Paul Simon
• "American Tune" - Paul Simon
• "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - Paul Simon
• "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
• "Playground in My Mine" - Clint Holmes
• "Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
• "Do It Again" - Steely Dan
• "Me and Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul
• "Will It Go Around in Circles" - Billy Preston
• "Photograph" - Ringo Starr
• "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
• "Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting" - Elton John
• "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
• "Live and Let Die" - Paul McCartney and Wings
• "Kodachrome" - Paul Simon
• "Touch Me in the Morning" - Diana Ross
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" - Gladys Knight
• "Ramblin' Man" - Allman Brothers Band
• "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple
• "Radar Love" - Golden Earring
• "The Most Beautiful Girl" - Charlie Rich
• "Keep On Truckin' " - Eddie Kendricks
• "Delta Dawn" - Helen Reddy
• "Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Roberta Flack
• "Higher Ground" - Stevie Wonder
• "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
• "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
• "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
• "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin
• "Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
• "D'Yer Mak'er" - Led Zeppelin
• "Top of the World" - The Carpenters

• "I've Got To Use My Imagination"      w.m. Gerry Goffin & Barry Goldberg
• "Midnight Train To Georgia"     w.m. Jim Weatherly
• "Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose"     w.m. Irwin Levine & L. Russell Brown
• "Send In The Clowns"     w.m. Stephen Sondheim
• "Stuck In The Middle With You"     w.m. Joe Egan & Gerry Rafferty

• Gigi     Broadway production
• Grease     London production
• Gypsy     London production
• Hard to be a Jew     Broadway production
• Irene     Broadway revival
• Here Comes the Groom     Broadway production
• The King and I     London revival
• A Little Night Music     Broadway production
• No, No, Nanette     London revival
• The Pajama Game     Broadway revival
• Pinocchio     Broadway production
• Pippin     London production
• Raisin     Broadway production
• The Rocky Horror Show     London production
• Seesaw     Broadway production
• Two Gentlemen from Verona     London production

• Godspell
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Tom Sawyer

• ? - Marco Peña, The Ataris
• January 10 - Aerle Taree, Arrested Development
• April 4 - Kelly Price
• April 29 - Mike Hogan, The Cranberries
• June 9 - Wes Scantlin, Puddle Of Mudd
• June 10 - Faith Evans
• July 5 - Bengt Lagerberg, The Cardigans
• July 25 - Ladybug, Digable Planets
• July 29 - Wanya Morris, Boyz II Men

• January 23 - Kid Ory
• March 5 - Michael Jeffrey, Jimi Hendrix's personal manager
• March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, The Grateful Dead, stomach hemorrhage
• August 17 - Jean Barraqué, French classical composer
• September 19 - Gram Parsons
• October 16 - Gene Krupa

• November 27 - Frank Christian
• December 31 - Emile Christian
• - Bobby Darin

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1973

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1973