1973 in music

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
• 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[?].

Albums Released

• 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 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
• 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 Sattelite[?] - 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

Top Hits

• "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
• "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
• "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" - The 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
• "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

For a more complete list of hits by month, see here (http://home.earthlink.net/~yellowbrickroad/1973.htm).

Births

• ? - 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

Deaths

• 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

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1973

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1973