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• Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Wuorinen
  
  Charles Wuorinen is an United States composer. Wuorinen is a prolific composer of primarily serialism instrumental music and high profile proponent of contemporary music....
   becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
  Pulitzer Prize for Music
  
  The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year....
  .
• January 3 - Davy Jones
  Davy Jones (actor)
  
  Davy Jones is a Grammy winning, England pop music singer-songwriter and Tony-nominated Primetime Emmy Award-nominated actor best known as a member of The Monkees....
   announces he is leaving the Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  . Former Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
   frontman Syd Barrett
  Syd Barrett
  
  Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
   releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs
  The Madcap Laughs
  
  The Madcap Laughs is Syd Barrett's first solo album after being replaced in Pink Floyd by his old school friend David Gilmour. The title of the album comes from a line in the song Octopus ....
  .
• January 7 - Max Yasgur, owner of the New York
  New York
  
  The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
   farm where the 1969 Woodstock
  Woodstock Festival
  
  Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
   Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighbouring farmers.
• January 14 - Diana Ross and the Supremes
  The Supremes
  
  The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
   perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
• January 16 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  's London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   Art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard
  Scotland Yard
  
  New Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City of London, which is covered by the City of London Police....
   for displaying "erotic lithographs"
• January 24 - James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats
  The Heartbeats
  
  The Heartbeats were a 1950s United States doo-wop group best known for their song A Thousand Miles Away, which charted at #53 in 1957.The Heartbeats were formed in the mid 1950s in Jamaica, Queens....
   and Shep and the Limelites
  Shep and the Limelites
  
  Shep and the Limelites was an United States doo-wop group in the early 1960s.James Sheppard and Clarence Bassett, both from Queens, New York, and Charles Baskerville, originally from Virginia, formed a group in Queens in 1960....
  , is found murdered in his car on the Long Island
  Long Island
  
  Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, United States, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are Borough s of New York City, and two of which are mainly suburban....
   Expressway
• January 26 - Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
   release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water
  Bridge over Troubled Water
  
  Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
  . The title track
  Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
  
  "Bridge over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon and Garfunkel's final album together, , released January 26, 1970. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks....
   and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards
  Grammy Awards of 1971
  
  The 13th Grammy Awards were held on March 16 1971, and was the first time the ceremonies were broadcast on television by American Broadcasting Company....
  , including "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year", and "Album of the Year." In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
• January 28 - The newly formed group Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
   walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience "I'm sorry we just can't get it together".
• February 11
• The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers
  Peter Sellers
  
  'Richard Henry Sellers', Order of British Empire, commonly known as 'Peter Sellers' was a United Kingdom comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr....
   and Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  
  Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
  , is premiered in New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
  . The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger
  Badfinger
  
  Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  's "Come and Get It", (written and produced by Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  ), is released on Apple Records
  Apple Records
  
  Apple Records is a record label founded by The Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps. It was initially intended as a creative outlet for the Beatles, both as a group and individually, plus a selection of other artists including Mary Hopkin, James Taylor, Badfinger, and Billy Preston....
  .
• John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South Africa
  South Africa
  
  The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
  n rugby team playing in Scotland
  Scotland
  
  conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
  .
• February 13 - Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
   releases debut self-titled LP. It is Friday the 13th.
• February 14 - The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
   records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire
  Yorkshire
  
  Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
  , England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  . The Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
   plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East
  Fillmore East
  
  Fillmore East was promoter Bill Graham 's late 1960s ? early 1970s rock music palace in the East Village, Manhattan area of New York City.Located on Second Avenue at Sixth Street, this venue provided Graham with an East Coast of the United States counterpart to his existing The Fillmore establishment in San Francisco, California Opening...
  , New York City.
• February 17 - Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
   announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  's Royal Albert Hall
  Royal Albert Hall
  
  The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
  . She would be back performing concerts within a year.
• February 23 - Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  
  Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
   appears on the television show Laugh-In
• February 27 - Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
   is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  
  Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, the city ranks List of United States cities by population among United States cities in population....
  .
• February 28 - Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   performs in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
   under the pseudonym The Nobs, due to threats of lawsuits from Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  
  Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin also called Count Zeppelin) was a German aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company....
  .
• March 4 - Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
   is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida
  Tampa, Florida
  
  Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
  .
• March 6 - Cult
  Cult
  
  This article does not discuss "cult" in the original sense of "veneration" or "religious practice"; for that usage see Cult . See Cult for more meanings of the term "cult"....
   leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson
  Charles Manson
  
  Charles Milles Manson is an United States criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-Commune that arose in California in the late 1960s....
   releases an album titled Lies to help finance his defense.
• March 20 - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
   marries model Angela Barnett.
• March 21 – Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  
  Dana Rosemary Scallon is better known simply as Dana, an Irish people and former politician. Her career began when, as an Advanced Level student, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", a subsequent worldwide million-seller....
   wins Eurovision Song Contest – and later became a Euro MP.
• March 26 - Peter Yarrow
  Peter Yarrow
  
  Peter Yarrow is an United States singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote the group's most famous song, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." He is also a political activism, lending his support to causes ranging from opposition to the Vietnam war to the creation of Operation Respect....
   (of Peter Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C.
• April 2 - The London Magistrate's Court hears arguments on John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  's indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
• April 3 - Minneapolis
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  
  Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
   nightclub the Depot opens, eventually renamed to First Avenue
  First Avenue
  
  First Avenue and 7th Street Entry are two music venues housed in the same building in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The names are derived from the building's location: the corner of First Avenue and 7th Street in downtown Minneapolis....
  .
• April 10 - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   publicly announced the break-up of The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  , though John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   had left the previous year.
• April 17 - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
   performs at the White House
  White House
  
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
   at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon.
• April 20 - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  's first solo album, McCartney
  McCartney (album)
  
  McCartney is the first solo album by Paul McCartney and was released in 1970. It is notable for the fact that McCartney, a multi-instrumentalist, performed the entire album by himself, except for some backing vocals from his first wife, Linda McCartney....
  , is released.
• April 24 - Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  
  Grace Slick is an United States singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship #Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s....
   of Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  
  Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
   is invited to a tea party at the White House
  White House
  
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian architecture and has been the executive residence of every U.S....
   by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon
  Richard Nixon
  
  Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
  . Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman
  Abbie Hoffman
  
  Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a social and political activism in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party . Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an enviromentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine....
  , who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon's tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD
  LSD
  
  Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, LSD-25, or acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family. Its unusual psychological effects, which include visuals of colored patterns behind the eyes in the mind, a sense of time distorting, and crawling geometric patterns, have made it one of the most widely known psyched...
  . However, Slick is recognized (Although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.
• May 15 - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ' last LP
  Gramophone record
  
  A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
  , Let It Be
  Let It Be (album)
  
  Let It Be is the twelfth U.K album, the nineteenth U.S. album, and the final original album released by The Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970 by the band's Apple Records label shortly after the group's announced breakup....
  , is released in the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  .
• May 16 - Randy Bachman
  Randy Bachman
  
  Randolph Charles Bachman, Order of Canada, Order of Manitoba was lead guitarist and songwriter of the 1970s rock bands, The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive....
   leaves The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  
  The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
   to start up Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive
  
  Bachman-Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that enjoyed a string of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums just in that decade....
  .
• May 23-24 - Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
   make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  , Free
  Free (band)
  
  Free were an England rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song "All Right Now".Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums....
  , and Jose Feliciano
  José Feliciano
  
  Jos? Montserrate Feliciano Garc?a is a Puerto Rico singer and virtuoso guitarist, known for many international hits. He was born permanently blind due to congenital glaucoma....
  . Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry
  
  Mungo Jerry are an England folk/classic rock band whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset....
  , whose debut single "In the Summertime" becomes the best-selling hit of the year.
• June 13
• "The Long and Winding Road
  The Long and Winding Road
  
  "The Long and Winding Road" is a ballad written by Paul McCartney that originally appeared on The Beatles' album Let It Be. It became The Beatles' last #1 song in the United States on 23 May 1970, and was their last real single....
  " becomes the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ' last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain.
• The Stooges
  The Stooges
  
  The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
   play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival.
• July 26 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.
• August 3 - Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance on the Dick Cavett Show.
• August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  
  File:Isle1970.jpgThe 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was held on August 26 - August 31, 1970. It was held on Afton Down an area on the Western side of the Isle of Wight....
   takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  . Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
  , The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  , The Doors
  The Doors
  
  The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  , Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  , Richie Havens
  Richie Havens
  
  Richie Havens is an United States folk music singer and guitarist. Havens is perhaps best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style, soulful cover version of pop music and folk music songs and his opening performance at the Woodstock Festival....
  , John Sebastian
  John Sebastian
  
  John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
  , Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  , Ten Years After
  Ten Years After
  
  Ten Years After are an England blues rock musical ensemble, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  , Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
   and Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  
  Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  .
• August 30 - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
   open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden.
• September 6 - During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German
  Germany
  
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
   fans at his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  .
• September 18 - Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
   dies from barbituate overdose at his London hotel at the age of 27. His last appearance was on September 17 with Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  
  Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
   & War
  War (band)
  
  War is an United States funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider ", "Spill the Wine" and "Why Can't We Be Friends ". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of Rock music, funk, jazz, Latin music, Rhythm and blues, and reggae....
   jamming at Ronnie Scott
  Ronnie Scott
  
  Ronnie Scott was an England jazz Tenor saxophone and jazz club owner....
  s Club in London.
• October 4 - Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
   dies from a heroin overdose at her Los Angeles hotel at the age of 27.
• October 30 - Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  
  James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
   of The Doors
  The Doors
  
  The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  , found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behaviour during a March 1, 1969 concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labour and a $500 fine.
• Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
   begins recording.
• Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  , still unable to cut a UK record deal, leaves Barclay Records
  Barclay Records
  
  Barclay Records is a France record label, which was founded round 1954 in music by Eddie Barclay alias Edouard Ruault. Among the artist in their catalog were Dalida, Mireille Mathieu, Danielle Licari, Charles Aznavour, Noir D?sir, Les Chaussettes Noires, Eddy Mitchell, Hugues Aufray, Henri Salvador, Jacques Brel, The Wild Magnolias, Leo Fer...
   for Orlando Records.
• Derek Bailey
  Derek Bailey
  
  Derek Bailey was an English Experimental music guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement....
   and Evan Parker
  Evan Parker
  
  Evan Shaw Parker is a United Kingdom free improvisation saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques....
   found Incus Records
  Incus Records
  
  Incus Records is an artist owned record label, founded by Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters, specialising in the dissemination of free improvisation music....
  , specialising in releasing free improvised music
  Free improvisation
  
  Free improvisation or free music is musical improvisation without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician involved; in many cases the musicians make an active effort to avoid overt references to recognizable musical genres....
   and said to be the first independent artist-owned record label.
• Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  ' Bitches Brew
  Bitches Brew
  
  Bitches Brew is a Studio album double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in June of 1970 on Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio over the course of three days in August of 1969....
   is widely considered the first successful full-fledged fusion of rock and roll
  Rock and roll
  
  Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
   and jazz
  Jazz
  
  Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
  , as well as being one Davis's best-known albums.

Bands formed

• The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  
  The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
   (formerly Pud
  Pud
  
  Pud can refer to* Comic strip mascot for Dubble Bubble* A nickname of Philip J. Kaplan, American entrepreneur* Pud Galvin, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball Pitcher....
  ), consisting of Tom Johnston
  Tom Johnston (US musician)
  
  Tom Johnston is a United States musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist and co-founded The Doobie Brothers with drummer John Hartman, guitarist Patrick Simmons and bassist Dave Shogren....
  , Patrick Simmons
  Patrick Simmons
  
  Patrick Simmons is an United States singer and guitarist best known as a member of the rock music musical band The Doobie Brothers.Simmons co-founded the Doobies in 1970 with northern California musicians Tom Johnston , John Hartman and Dave Shogren....
  , John Hartman
  John Hartman
  
  John Hartman is a United States drummer who was a co-founder and original drummer of the Doobie Brothers. At the band 's inception, Hartman was the sole drummer....
  , Dave Shogren
• Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  
  Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
   (originally an offshoot project of rock band The Move
  The Move
  
  The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
   with Roy Wood
  Roy Wood
  
  Roy Wood is an England singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the musical bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard....
  , Jeff Lynne
  Jeff Lynne
  
  Jeffrey Lynne is a two-time Ivor Novello Awards recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist and record producer who gained fame as the leader of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys....
   and Bev Bevan
  Bev Bevan
  
  Bev Bevan is an English rock musician who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra. After the collapse of ELO in 1986, he founded Electric Light Orchestra Part II without the original ELO singer/songwriter, Jeff Lynne....
  )
• Ocean
  Ocean (band)
  
  Ocean was a gospel rock band formed in 1970 in London, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their million-selling 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand", penned by Gene MacLellan....
  
• Queen
  Queen (band)
  
  Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
   (with its first three members Freddie Mercury
  Freddie Mercury
  
  Freddie Mercury , was a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist and co-founder of the Rock music Musical ensemble Queen . As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances....
  , Brian May and Roger Taylor
  Roger Meddows-Taylor
  
  Roger Taylor is an English musician best known as the percussionist and backing, sometimes lead Singing of the rock band Queen . As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of the most influential rock music drummers of the 1970s and 1980s....
  . Bassist John Deacon
  John Deacon
  
  John Richard Deacon is a retired England musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Rock and roll band Queen . Of the four members of the band, Deacon was the youngest and last to join....
   joins in 1971.)
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  
• Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  

Bands disbanded

• The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   break up. All four band members release solo albums.
• Blind Faith
  Blind Faith
  
  Blind Faith were an England blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech . The band, which was one of the first "supergroup ", released their only album, Blind Faith in August 1969 in music....
  
• The Dave Clark Five
  The Dave Clark Five
  
  The Dave Clark Five were an England pop rock group. It was the second group of the British Invasion, after The Beatles, to have a record chart hit record in the United States ....
  
• The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• Simon and Garfunkel
  Simon and Garfunkel
  
  Simon & Garfunkel were an American singer-songwriter duo consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group "Tom and Jerry" in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl"....
   break up, and both members of the duo go on to solo careers, although they have reunited and performed together numerous times since breaking up.
• The Nice
  The Nice
  
  The Nice were an England progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of Rock and roll, jazz and european classical music....
   break up.

Albums released

• ABC - Jackson 5
• Abraxas
  Abraxas (album)
  
  Abraxas is the second album by Santana , the Latin rock n' roll group led by guitarist Carlos Santana. Consolidating their live success at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and the interest generated by their Santana the band took some time to issue a follow-up....
   - Santana
  Carlos Santana
  
  Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
  
• After the Gold Rush
  After the Gold Rush
  
  After the Gold Rush is the third album by Neil Young, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby, Stills & Nash in the wake of their chart-topping D?j? Vu album of 1970....
   - Neil Young
  Neil Young
  
  Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
  
• All Kinds of Everything
  All Kinds Of Everything
  
  "All Kinds of Everything" was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1970, written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith, and sung in English Language by Dana Rosemary Scallon representing Republic of Ireland in Amsterdam....
   - Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  
  Dana Rosemary Scallon is better known simply as Dana, an Irish people and former politician. Her career began when, as an Advanced Level student, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 with "All Kinds of Everything", a subsequent worldwide million-seller....
  
• All Things Must Pass
  All Things Must Pass
  
  All Things Must Pass is a triple album by George Harrison recorded and released after the break-up of The Beatles. The first triple album by a solo artist, the original vinyl release featured two records of rock songs, while the third, entitled "Apple Jam" was composed of informal jams led by Harrison with musician friends and other famou...
   - George Harrison
  George Harrison
  
  George Harrison Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"....
  
• Almost in Love
  Almost in Love
  
  Almost in Love is an album by Elvis Presley, released in 1970 on RCA Records, a budget-priced subsidiary of the main RCA label. This album consisted mostly of singles dating from the late 1960s that had previously not been released in album format, including 1968's "A Little Less Conversation" and "Rubberneckin", a 1969 single that would...
   - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• American Beauty
  American Beauty (album)
  
  American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros....
   - Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  
• American Woman
  American Woman
  
  American Woman is an album released in 1970 in music by the Canada rock band The Guess Who. It peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 charts. It stayed on the charts for more than a year and was their most successful release....
   - The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  
  The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
  
• Anyway - Family
  Family (band)
  
  Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
  
• Atom Heart Mother
  Atom Heart Mother
  
  Atom Heart Mother is a 1970 progressive rock album by Pink Floyd, engineered by Alan Parsons and Peter Bown. It was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, and reached number 1 in the United Kingdom, and number 55 in the United States charts, and went RIAA certification in the U.S....
   - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
  
• Atomic Rooster
  Atomic Rooster (album)
  
  Atomic Roooster is the first album by English progressive rock band Atomic Rooster....
   - Atomic Rooster
  Atomic Rooster
  
  Atomic Rooster were an England progressive rock band , formed by ex-Arthur Brown members, Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer in late 1969. Their only chart-topper single came in 1971 with "Tomorrow Night" , and "The Devil's Answer" ....
  
• Back Home
  Back Home (Chuck Berry album)
  
  Back Home was released in 1970 under Chess Records. The album title refers to Chuck Berry 'coming home' back to Chess Records....
   - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• Band of Gypsys
  Band of Gypsys
  
  Band of Gypsys is a live album and a project by Jimi Hendrix, backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, that followed Hendrix's The Jimi Hendrix Experience project....
   - Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  
  James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
  
• A Beard Of Stars
  A Beard of Stars
  
  A Beard of Stars is the fourth album by T. Rex , comprising Marc Bolan and the first with new partner Mickey Finn . It was released in March 1970....
   - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Marc Bolan
  
  Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
  
• Benefit
  Benefit (album)
  
  Benefit is the third album by Jethro Tull . It was released in April 1970. It was the first album to feature John Evan on keyboards , and the last to feature Glenn Cornick on bass guitar....
   - Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  
  Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
  
• The Best of the Wailers
  The Best of the Wailers
  
  The Best of the Wailers is an album by The Wailers , released in August 1971. Despite its title, it is not a compilation album.The album was produced by Leslie Kong, who died of a heart attack at the age of 38 a week after the album was released....
   - The Wailers
  The Wailers (reggae)
  
  The Wailers was a ska, rocksteady, and reggae group formed in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica in 1963, consisting of Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Cherry Smith....
  
• The Best of Top of the Pops '70
  The Best of Top of the Pops '70
  
  The Best of Top of the Pops '70 is a 1970 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s....
   - Top of the Poppers
• Big Band Sound
  Big Band Sound (album)
  
  Big Band Sound is a 1970 in music compilation album of standards by Jo Stafford. The songs were recorded between 1960 and 1970 and see Stafford backed by a number of big band arrangers, notably her husband Paul Weston, as well as Billy May and Benny Carter....
   - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• The Big O
  The Big O (album)
  
  The Big O is a record album recorded by Roy Orbison for London Records in the United Kingdom with the music and backing vocals by the "Art Movement." The album was released in Europe in early 1970....
   - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• Bill Haley's Scrapbook: Live at the Bitter End - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Bitches Brew
  Bitches Brew
  
  Bitches Brew is a Studio album double album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in June of 1970 on Columbia Records. Recording sessions took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio over the course of three days in August of 1969....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• The Black Gladiator - Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  
• Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath (album)
  
  Black Sabbath is the debut album by the British rock music band Black Sabbath. It was released in the United Kingdom on Friday the 13th of February 1970....
   - Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  
• Bridge Over Troubled Water
  Bridge over Troubled Water
  
  Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. First released on January 26, 1970, it reached No. 1 on Billboard Music Charts pop albums list....
   - Simon & Garfunkel
• Bullshit 3 1/4 - Danny Ben-Israel
  Danny Ben-Israel
  
  Danny Ben-Israel was a notable Israeli rock musician of the late 1960s and early 1970s, producing psychedelic progressive rock with socially-concerned lyrics in Hebrew language....
  
• Burnt Weeny Sandwich
  Burnt Weeny Sandwich
  
  Burnt Weeny Sandwich is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1970 .The album was essentially a "posthumous" Mothers release having been released after Frank Zappa dissolved the band....
   - The Mothers of Invention
  The Mothers of Invention
  
  The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
  
• Canto Libre
  Canto Libre (album)
  
  Canto libre is an album recorded by V?ctor Jara in 1970....
   - Víctor Jara
  Víctor Jara
  
  V?ctor Lidio Jara Mart?nez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist. A distinguished theatre director, he devoted himself to the development of Chilean theatre, directing a broad array of works from locally produced Chilean plays, to the classics of the world stage, to the experimental work of...
  
• Changes - The Monkees
  The Monkees
  
  The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
  
• Chapter 2 - Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack
  
  Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  
• Chicago
  Chicago (album)
  
  Chicago II is the second album by Chicago, Illinois-based rock and roll band Chicago . It was released in 1970 after the band had shortened its name from The Chicago Transit Authority after releasing their same-titled The Chicago Transit Authority album the previous year....
   (sometimes referred to as Chicago II) - Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  
• Chunga's Revenge
  Chunga's Revenge
  
  Chunga's Revenge is an album by Frank Zappa, released on October 23, 1970. Zappa's first effort of the 1970s marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie on a Zappa record, and signals the dawn of a controversial epoch in Zappa's history ....
   - Frank Zappa
  Frank Zappa
  
  Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
  
• Climbing!
  Climbing!
  
  Climbing! is the formal debut album by United States hard rock band Mountain , although Leslie West had released Mountain a year earlier with a similar personnel....
   - Mountain
  Mountain (band)
  
  Mountain is an United States rock music Band . The band broke up in 1972, reformed two years later, and have since reconvened and resumed performing and recording....
  
• Closer to Home
  Closer to Home
  
  Closer to Home is Grand Funk Railroad's third studio album, and was released in July 1970 by Capitol Records. It was produced by Terry Knight....
   - Grand Funk Railroad
  Grand Funk Railroad
  
  Grand Funk Railroad is an United States Rock music band. The Grand Funk Railroad lineup was highly popular during the 1970s, selling over 25 million records, selling out arenas worldwide and being awarded four RIAA gold albums in 1970, the most for any American group that year....
  
• Close to You
  Close to You (Carpenters album)
  
  Close to You was the second album by The Carpenters, released in August 1970. In 2003, the album was ranked number 175 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....
   - The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  
  The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
  
• Come To My Garden
  Come To My Garden
  
  Come to My Garden is the debut solo album by Minnie Riperton, released in 1970. It was re-released on Compact Disc in 1999. It peaked at number one hundred and sixty on the U.S....
   - Minnie Riperton
• Cosmo's Factory
  Cosmo's Factory
  
  Cosmo's Factory is the fifth album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1970.The peak of a prolific streak, Cosmo's Factory was Creedence's fifth album in less than two years....
   - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  
• Cucumber Castle
  Cucumber Castle
  
  Cucumber Castle is the Bee Gees' seventh album, released in 1970 and produced by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robert Stigwood. It consists of songs from their television special of Cucumber Castle , which was named after Cucumber Castle on their 1967 album Bee Gees' 1st....
   - The Bee Gees
• In Rock - Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  
  Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
  
• Déjà Vu
  Déjà Vu (album)
  
  D?j? Vu is the second album by Rock music band Crosby, Stills & Nash , and their first as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, released on March 11, 1970....
   - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Death Walks Behind You
  Death Walks Behind You
  
  Death Walks Behind You is the second album by English progressive rock band Atomic Rooster. This album is thought of by fans as the "classic" Atomic Rooster album, as this was by the "classic" line-up of Vincent Crane, John Du Cann and Paul Hammond....
   - Atomic Rooster
  Atomic Rooster
  
  Atomic Rooster were an England progressive rock band , formed by ex-Arthur Brown members, Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer in late 1969. Their only chart-topper single came in 1971 with "Tomorrow Night" , and "The Devil's Answer" ....
  
• Down to Earth
  Down to Earth (Jimmy Buffett album)
  
  Down to Earth is the first album by United States popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was produced by Travis Turk and was initially released in 1970 in music on Andy Williams's small Barnaby Records label as Z 30093....
   - Jimmy Buffett
  Jimmy Buffett
  
  James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
  
• Easy Action
  Easy Action
  
  Easy Action is the second studio album by Alice Cooper, released by Straight Records in June 1970. The title comes from a line in the musical film West Side Story , which was one of the band's favorite films....
   - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
  
• Egg
  Egg (album)
  
  Egg is the 1970 debut album of United Kingdom band Egg ....
   - Egg
  Egg (band)
  
  Egg were an English progressive rock band formed in January 1969. The founding members of the group were Dave Stewart who played organ , Mont Campbell on bass and vocals and drummer Clive Brooks....
  
• Electronic Meditation
  Electronic Meditation
  
  Electronic Meditation is the debut album by the Germany electronic music group Tangerine Dream....
   - Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  
  Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
  
• Ella in Budapest, Hungary
  Ella in Budapest, Hungary
  
  Ella in Budapest, Hungary is a 1970 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Tommy Flanagan trio....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  
• Elton John
  Elton John (album)
  
  Elton John is the eponymous second album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1970. It was his first album, however, released in America, thus commonly assumed by many as his debut, as Empty Sky would not be released in the U.S....
   - Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer
  Emerson, Lake and Palmer (album)
  
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer is the debut album of Great Britain progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1970 in music in the United Kingdom and January 1971 in the United States....
   - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
   (debut)
• Eric Burdon Declares "War" - Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  
  Eric Victor Burdon is best known as a founding member and singer of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and his multi-racial project the Funk rock band War ....
   & War
  War (band)
  
  War is an United States funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider ", "Spill the Wine" and "Why Can't We Be Friends ". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of Rock music, funk, jazz, Latin music, Rhythm and blues, and reggae....
  
• The End of an Ear
  The End of an Ear
  
  The End of an Ear is the debut solo album by Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt. It was recorded in August 1970, while on a leave of absence from the band ....
   - Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  
  Robert Wyatt is an England musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge....
  
• Fire and Water - Free
  Free (band)
  
  Free were an England rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song "All Right Now".Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums....
  
• Fun House
  Fun House (album)
  
  Fun House is the second album by the American rock band The Stooges.It was recorded in May 1970 and released in July of the same year. Like its predecessor, The Stooges , Fun House did not sell well....
   - The Stooges
  The Stooges
  
  The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
  
• Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow-Funkadelic
  Funkadelic
  
  Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament , both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  
• Funkadelic
  Funkadelic (album)
  
  Funkadelic was the debut album by the American funk band Funkadelic, released in 1970 on Westbound Records. The album showcased a strong bass and rhythm section, as well as lengthy jam sessions, future trademarks of the band....
  -Funkadelic
  Funkadelic
  
  Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament , both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  
• The Great Songs Of Roy Orbison
  The Great Songs of Roy Orbison
  
  The Great Songs of Roy Orbison is an album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records that was released in the United States in February 1970....
   - Roy Orbison
• Hank Williams The Roy Orbison Way
  Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way
  
  Hank Williams The Roy Orbison Way is a record album recorded by Roy Orbison for MGM Records that was released in August 1970. It is a tribute album to the songs of Country Music Hall of Fame honky tonk singer Hank Williams....
   - Roy Orbison
• Hawkwind
  Hawkwind (album)
  
  Hawkwind, the eponym debut psychedelic rock album by Hawkwind was released in 1970, originally on Liberty Records ....
   - Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  
  Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
   (debut)
• Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
  Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
  
  Hello, I'm Johnny Cash is an album released by country music singer Johnny Cash on Columbia Records in 1970 . "If I Were a Carpenter", a famous duet with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, earned the couple a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1971 ; the song also reached No....
   - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• His Band and the Street Choir
  His Band and the Street Choir
  
  His Band and the Street Choir is Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison's fourth solo album, released in 1970 . The album was originally to be called Virgo's Fool....
   - Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  
• Idlewild South
  Idlewild South
  
  Idlewild South is the second album of The Allman Brothers Band, released in 1970.Unlike the band's The Allman Brothers Band , Idlewild South enjoyed some popular success as well as critical enthusiasm, mostly due to what Rolling Stone magazine called "briefer, tighter, less 'heavy' numbers" which were more radio-friendly....
   - The Allman Brothers Band
  The Allman Brothers Band
  
  The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, Georgia . The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman ....
  
• if (aka If 1) - If
  If (band)
  
  If was a progressive rock band formed in United Kingdom in 1969. In the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada....
  
• IF 2 - If
  If (band)
  
  If was a progressive rock band formed in United Kingdom in 1969. In the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada....
  
• If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
  If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
  
  'If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You' is a 1970 release by Canterbury scene rock music band Caravan . According to Allmusic, "If I Could Do It All Over Again contains significant progressions over the first album." It was the second album by the band, the predecessor to their most well-known album In the Land of Grey a...
   - Caravan
  Caravan
  
  Caravan may refer to:*Caravan , a group of travellers journeying together* Convoy, a group of vehicles or ships traveling together for mutual support...
  
• (I Live) One Day at a Time
  (I Live) One Day at a Time
  
  One Day at a Time was a 1970 album by Joan Baez. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, the album was a continuation of Baez' experimentation with country music, begun with the previous year's David's Album....
   - Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  
• I Walk the Line
  I Walk the Line (soundtrack album)
  
  I Walk the Line is a soundtrack album to a 1970 film of the I Walk the Line starring Gregory Peck. Released that same year on Columbia Records, it is, in essence, a country music album by Johnny Cash, as the entire soundtrack is composed solely of Cash songs, including the famous I Walk the Line....
   (OST) - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Ils ont changé ma chanson - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• In and Out of Focus
  In and Out of Focus
  
  In and Out of Focus is the 1970 debut album by the Dutch band Focus The album was initially recorded in 1969 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and subsequently re-recorded in London, UK....
   - Focus
  Focus
  
  Focus may refer to:In science, mathematics or computing:*Focus , a point toward which light rays are made to converge*Focus , an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter...
  
• In Wake Of Poseidon - King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
  
• The Isaac Hayes Movement - Isaac Hayes
  Isaac Hayes
  
  Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an United Statesn Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s....
  
• It Ain't Easy - Three Dog Night
  Three Dog Night
  
  Three Dog Night is an United States rock band, best known for their music from 1968?1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings in 2008....
  
• John Barleycorn Must Die
  John Barleycorn Must Die
  
  John Barleycorn Must Die is a 1970 album by England rock band Traffic . As did most of their albums, it featured many different genres of music including art rock, jazz rock, and many psychedelic influences....
  - Traffic
  Traffic (band)
  
  Traffic was an England rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group influenced by The Beatles when releasing early pop rock singles , and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as musical keyboard, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz an...
  
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
  John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
  
  John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is the debut solo album by English rock music musician John Lennon. It was released in 1970 after Lennon issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace In Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to The Plastic Ono Band....
  - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  
• The Johnny Cash Show (live) - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Klopfzeichen
  Klopfzeichen
  
  Klopfzeichen is the first full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster.Klopfziechen was recorded on December 21, 1969 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf, Germany....
  - Kluster
  Kluster
  
  Kluster was a Germany krautrock or experimental musical group whose work often resembles later industrial music.Kluster was short-lived, existing only from 1969 until mid-1971 when Konny Schnitzler left and the remaining two members renamed themselves Cluster ....
  
• Kristofferson
  Kristofferson (album)
  
  Kristofferson is the first album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1970 on Monument Records.Many of the songs on the album were already hits when covered by other artists....
  - Kris Kristofferson
  Kris Kristofferson
  
  Kristoffer Kristian Kristofferson is an United States writer, singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. He is best known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"....
   (debut)
• Ladies of the Canyon
  Ladies of the Canyon
  
  Ladies of the Canyon is Joni Mitchell's third album, released in 1970. Its title refers to Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, a center of popular music culture in Los Angeles during the sixties....
  - Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  
  Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
  
• Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
  Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
  
  Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a rock music album by Derek and the Dominos. It is regarded as one of the high points in Eric Clapton's career....
  - Derek & the Dominoes
• Led Zeppelin III
  Led Zeppelin III
  
  Led Zeppelin III is the third album by English Rock music band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded between January and July 1970 and was released on 5 October 1970 by Atlantic Records....
  - Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
  
• Legal
  Legal (album)
  
  Legal is an album by Brazil singer-songwriter Gal Costa, released in 1970. The album returns to an accessible style following the experimental previous self-titled album Gal Costa of 1969....
  - Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of M?sica Popular Brasileira....
  
• Let It Be
  Let It Be (album)
  
  Let It Be is the twelfth U.K album, the nineteenth U.S. album, and the final original album released by The Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970 by the band's Apple Records label shortly after the group's announced breakup....
  - The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  
• Live Album
  Live Album (album)
  
  Live Album is Grand Funk Railroad's first live album, and was released in November 1970 by Capitol Records. It was produced by Terry Knight....
  - Grand Funk
• Live at Leeds
  Live at Leeds
  
  Live at Leeds is The Who's first live album, and is their only live album that was released while the band was still recording and performing regularly....
  - The Who
  The Who
  
  The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
  
• Loaded
  Loaded (album)
  
  Loaded is the fourth album released by United States rock band The Velvet Underground. The album was released in September, 1970, one month after Lou Reed had left the band, by Atlantic Records' sub-label Cotillion Records....
  - The Velvet Underground
  The Velvet Underground
  
  The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
  
• Looking On
  Looking On
  
  Looking On is the third album by The Move, released in the UK in December 1970. The LP is their first to feature Jeff Lynne, their first containing entirely original compositions, and the first on the Fly Records label, its catalogue number being FLY 1....
  - The Move
  The Move
  
  The Move were one of the leading British rock bands of the 1960s from Birmingham, England, and were among the most popular British bands to not find any success in the US....
  
• Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends
  Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends
  
  Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends is the debut album of England Rock singer Screaming Lord Sutch. It was recorded in September 1969 at Mystic Studios in Hollywood and released on Atlantic Records on May 25, 1970....
  - Screaming Lord Sutch
  Screaming Lord Sutch
  
  Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, known as Screaming Lord Sutch, born David Edward Sutch was an England musician and aspirant politician, and founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party....
  
• McCartney
  McCartney (album)
  
  McCartney is the first solo album by Paul McCartney and was released in 1970. It is notable for the fact that McCartney, a multi-instrumentalist, performed the entire album by himself, except for some backing vocals from his first wife, Linda McCartney....
  - Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
  Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
  
  Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon is the third album by English rock band Status Quo. It was the first album by the band to leave behind their early psychedelic sound and begin experimenting with the hard rock style which remains their signature sound....
  - Status Quo
  Status Quo
  
  Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
  
• The Madcap Laughs
  The Madcap Laughs
  
  The Madcap Laughs is Syd Barrett's first solo album after being replaced in Pink Floyd by his old school friend David Gilmour. The title of the album comes from a line in the song Octopus ....
  - Syd Barrett
  Syd Barrett
  
  Syd Barrett was an England singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist. He is most remembered as a founding member of psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, providing major musical and stylistic direction in their early work, although he left the group in 1968 amidst speculations of mental illness exacerbated by heavy drug use....
  
• Magic Christian Music
  Magic Christian Music
  
  Magic Christian Music is an album by power pop band Badfinger, released in early 1970 on Apple Records. Three tracks from the LP are featured in the film The Magic Christian , which also gives the album its title....
  - Badfinger
  Badfinger
  
  Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  
• The Man Who Sold The World
  The Man Who Sold the World
  
  The Man Who Sold the World is the third studio album by David Bowie. It was originally released on Mercury Records in November 1970 in the United States and in April 1971 in the UK....
  - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
  
• Maria Bethânia Ao Vivo - Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia
  
  Maria Beth?nia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Beth?nia, is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opini?o" ....
  
• Master - The Tremeloes
  The Tremeloes
  
  The Tremeloes are an English people rock and roll musical ensemble, founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex. The Tremeloes are one of the longest surviving, still playing regularly more than 50 years after the group's founding....
  
• Moondance
  Moondance
  
  Moondance is the third solo album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released in February 1970 on Warner Bros. Records and peaked at #29 on Billboard Music Charts's Pop Albums chart....
  - Van Morrison
  Van Morrison
  
  George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
  
• Morrison Hotel
  Morrison Hotel
  
  Morrison Hotel is The Doors' fifth album. It was released in 1970. After their experimental work The Soft Parade was not as well received as anticipated, the group went back to basics and back to their roots....
  - The Doors
  The Doors
  
  The Doors were an United States rock music band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by Singer Jim Morrison, keyboard instrument Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger....
  
• Mr. Fox - Mr. Fox
  Mr. Fox
  
  Mr Fox were an early 1970s electric folk or folk rock band. They were seen as in the ?second generation? of electric folk performers and for a time were compared with Steeleye Span and Sandy Denny?s Fotheringay....
  
• Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry
  
  Mungo Jerry are an England folk/classic rock band whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset....
  - Mungo Jerry
  Mungo Jerry
  
  Mungo Jerry are an England folk/classic rock band whose greatest success was in the early 1970s, though they have continued throughout the years with an ever-changing line-up, always fronted by Ray Dorset....
  
• Naturally
  Naturally (Three Dog Night album)
  
  Naturally is the fifth album by United States rock music band Three Dog Night, released in 1970 . The album produced two Top 40 hits: "Joy to the World " and "Liar" ....
  - Three Dog Night
• New Morning
  New Morning
  
  New Morning is the 11th studio album by Bob Dylan, released by Columbia Records in 1970.Coming only four months after the controversial Self Portrait , the more concise and immediate New Morning won a much warmer reception from fans and critics....
  - Bob Dylan
• No Dice
  No Dice
  
  No Dice is a pop album by Badfinger, issued by Apple Records and released on November 9, 1970. Their second album under the Badfinger name, No Dice significantly expanded the British group's popularity, especially abroad....
  - Badfinger
  Badfinger
  
  Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
  
• On Stage
  On Stage (Elvis Presley album)
  
  On Stage is an Elvis Presley live album recorded in 1970 at the International Hotel , Las Vegas, Nevada. It features the world-wide #1 single "The Wonder of You", which topped both the United States AC tracks chart and the United Kingdom music chart....
  (live) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Open Road - Donovan
  Donovan
  
  Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
  
• Osmium
  Osmium (album)
  
  Osmium is the 1970 in music debut album by the funk band Parliament , led by George Clinton . The album has a psychedelic soul sound with a spirit of experimentation that is more similar to early Funkadelic than the later R&B-inspired Parliament albums....
  - Parliament
  Parliament (band)
  
  Parliament was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton , began the funk culture of that decade....
  
• Paranoid
  Paranoid (album)
  
  Paranoid is the second album by the British heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, released in September 1970 through Vertigo Records. The album consists of some of the band's most readily identifiable work including "Iron Man ", "War Pigs " and the Paranoid ....
  - Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  
  Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
  
• Pearl
  Pearl (album)
  
  Pearl is an album by Janis Joplin, released on February 1, 1971 - four months after her death from a heroin overdose. It is her fourth album and the first album she recorded with Full Tilt Boogie....
  - Janis Joplin
  Janis Joplin
  
  Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
  
• Pendulum
  Pendulum (album)
  
  Pendulum is the sixth album by United States band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1970 . It was also the final Creedence album with rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty who left the group shortly after this album was released....
  - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
  
• Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas
  Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas
  
  Perry Como In Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas was Perry Como 18th RCA Victor 12" long-play album, the 16th recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound and his first live album....
  - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band - Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  
  , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  
• The Point!
  The Point!
  
  The Point! is a fable by United States songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson about a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in The Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything had to have a point....
  - Harry Nilsson
  Harry Nilsson
  
  Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American songwriter, singer, pianist, and guitarist who achieved the height of his fame during the 1960s and 1970s....
  
• Portrait - Fifth Dimension
  Fifth dimension
  
  In physics and mathematics, a tuple of N real numbers can be understood to represent a coordinate system in an N-dimensional Euclidean space. When N=5, the space consisting of all locations with a nonzero fifth number is called the fifth dimension....
  
• Rides Again
  Rides Again
  
  Rides Again is an album released by country music musician David Allan Coe. It was released in 1977 on Columbia Records.Track listing...
  - The James Gang
• Self Portrait - Bob Dylan
• Sex Machine
  Sex Machine (album)
  
  Sex Machine is a 1970 in music double album by James Brown. It showcases the playing of the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy Collins and Catfish Collins, and includes an 11-minute live rendition of the album's Get Up Sex Machine....
  - James Brown
• Share the Land
  Share the Land
  
  Share the Land is an album released in 1970 in music by the Canada rock band The Guess Who. After the departure of Randy Bachman, the band brought in two guitarists, Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw....
  - The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  
  The Guess Who is a Canada rock music band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was one of the first to establish a major successful following in their own country while still residing there....
  
• Shooting at the Moon
  Shooting at the Moon (album)
  
  Shooting at the Moon is the second solo album of Kevin Ayers.In early 1970, Ayers assembled a band he called The Whole World to tour his debut LP Joy of a Toy that included, a young Mike Oldfield, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Mick Fincher, the folk singer Bridget St....
  - Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  
  Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."...
  
• Sit Down Old Friend - Dion DiMucci
• Skid - Skid Row
  Skid Row (blues-rock band)
  
  Skid Row was a Dublin Rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s fronted by Brush Shiels . It was guitarist Gary Moore's first professional band....
  
• Small Talk at 125th and Lenox - Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  
  Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
  
• A Song For Me - Family
  Family (band)
  
  Family were an England rock band that formed in 1967 and disbanded in 1973. Their style has been characterised as progressive rock, although their sound often explores other genres, incorporating elements of such styles as folk music, psychedelic music, acid rock, jazz fusion and basic rock 'n' roll....
  
• Soul Rebels
  Soul Rebels
  
  Soul Rebels is an album by The Wailers , their first album to be released outside of Jamaica. The Wailers approached producer Lee Perry in August 1970 to record an entire album, and the sessions took place at Randy's Recording Studio in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica until November....
  - The Wailers
  The Wailers (reggae)
  
  The Wailers was a ska, rocksteady, and reggae group formed in Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica in 1963, consisting of Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Bunny Wailer, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Cherry Smith....
  
• Spirit in the Dark
  Spirit in the Dark (Aretha Franklin album)
  
  Spirit in the Dark is an album by United States soul music artist Aretha Franklin, released in 1970....
  - Aretha Franklin
• Stranded - Edwards Hand
  Edwards Hand
  
  Formerly known as Piccadilly Line, Edwards Hand are a musical group formed by England Rod Edwards and Roger Hand . After a 1968 in music album released under their former name, in 1969 in music Edwards Hand released an eponymous album produced by George Martin who, taking a break from working on The Beatles' The Beatles , described their...
  
• Sunflower
  Sunflower (album)
  
  Sunflower is The Beach Boys' thirteenth studio album, twenty-first official album release, and their first under their contract with Reprise Records....
  - The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close harmony and lyrics reflecting a California youth culture of cars and surfing....
  
• Sweet Baby James
  Sweet Baby James
  
  Sweet Baby James is singer-songwriter James Taylor's second album, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, it showcased Taylor's talents and showed the direction he would take in the early 1970s with the expansion of his career....
  - James Taylor
  James Taylor
  
  James Vernon Taylor is a Grammy Award winning United States singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  
• Tea for the Tillerman
  Tea for the Tillerman
  
  Tea for the Tillerman is a highly-regarded album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. This album, Stevens' second during 1970, includes many of Stevens' most memorable and beloved songs by his fans, including "Where Do the Children Play?," "Hard Headed Woman," "Wild World," "Sad Lisa," "Into White" and "Father and Son ." Four of the tracks...
  - Cat Stevens
  Cat Stevens
  
  Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a Great Britain musician of Greek Cypriot and Sweden ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent Religious conversion to Islam....
  
• Thank Christ for the Bomb - The Groundhogs
  The Groundhogs
  
  The Groundhogs were a British blues band founded in late 1963, which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day....
  
• That's the Way It Is
  That's the Way It Is (album)
  
  Elvis: That's the Way It Is is the thirty-sixth LP album, not counting budget compilations on the RCA Camden subsidiary, by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Records, LSP 4445, in November 1970....
  - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be is a 1970 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald....
  - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  
• This Girl's In Love With You
  This Girl's in Love with You
  
  This Girl's In Love With You is a 1970 album by soul music musician Aretha Franklin....
  - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• Tide
  Tide (album)
  
  Tide is a 1970 album by Antonio Carlos Jobim.Track listing# "The Girl from Ipanema" ?4:53# "Carinhoso" ?2:49# "Tema Jazz" ?4:36...
  - Antonio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Jobim
  
  Ant?nio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim, was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist....
  
• 'Til the Band Comes In
  'Til The Band Comes In
  
  'Til The Band Comes In is a Scott Walker album, released in 1970....
  - Scott Walker
  Scott Walker (singer)
  
  Scott Walker is the stage name of the American musician Noel Scott Engel , former lead singer with The Walker Brothers. He has been living in England since the 1960s, and continues to release new solo material....
  
• Time and a Word
  Time and a Word
  
  Time and a Word is the second album by progressive rock band Yes , released in mid-1970 in the UK and November 1970 in the US. This was the last Yes album to feature the group's original line-up, as Peter Banks was fired before the album's release....
  - Yes
  Yes (band)
  
  Yes are an England progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968 in music. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess....
  
• Tin Tin - Tin Tin
  Tin Tin
  
  Tin Tin is Cartoon Network 's French/American 30 minute TV show from 1993 to 1994. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios based on a series of comic called The Adventures of Tintin....
  
• Trespass
  Trespass (album)
  
  Trespass is the second studio album by Genesis and was recorded and released in 1970. The only album with drummer John Mayhew and the last with guitarist Anthony Phillips, Trespass had a folk-flavoured progressive rock sound that was a marked departure from their earlier work, and foreshadowed the path the band would follow through...
  - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  
  Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
  
• A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World - Merle Haggard
  Merle Haggard
  
  Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  
• Tumbleweed Connection
  Tumbleweed Connection
  
  Tumbleweed Connection is the third album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1970 in music. With the exception of "Love Song," written and composed by Lesley Duncan, the albums lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, while the music was composed by John....
  - Elton John
  Elton John
  
  Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  
• 12 Songs
  12 Songs (Randy Newman album)
  
  12 Songs is a 1970 album by singer/songwriter Randy Newman. His second album, 12 Songs received much better reviews than Randy Newman ....
  - Randy Newman
  Randy Newman
  
  Randall Stuart ?Randy? Newman is an Academy Award?winning United States singer/songwriter, arrangement, composer, singer and pianist who is notable for his wiktionary:mordant pop songs and for his many film scores....
  
• Vintage Violence
  Vintage Violence
  
  Vintage Violence was the first solo album from former Velvet Underground member John Cale. Produced for a mere $15,000, Cale stated in his autobiography What's Welsh for Zen? that there wasn't "much originality on that album, it's just someone teaching himself to do something"....
  - John Cale
  John Cale
  
  John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
  
• Warhorse
  Warhorse (album)
  
  Warhorse is the debut album by English Hard Rock band Warhorse .The album was re-released on vinyl in 1984 under the name "Vulture Blood"....
  - Warhorse
  Warhorse (70s band)
  
  Warhorse were a band formed by former Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper. He had left Deep Purple in 1969 and joined Marsha Hunt 's backup band. Not long after, Nick Simper replaced her backing band with Ged Peck on guitar and Mac Poole on drums....
  
• Watertown
  Watertown (album)
  
  Watertown is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1970 .It is Sinatra's most ambitious concept album, an experiment perhaps first started on the 1966 album That's Life ....
  - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Wailing Wall - Wailing Wall
  Wailing Wall (band)
  
  Wailing Wall was a 1970s psychedelic rock band.Personnel*Mike Cancellari *Doug Adams *Darrel Adams *David Rutledge Discography...
  
• Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  
  Weasels Ripped My Flesh is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1970 .Conceptually, the album could be considered Phase Two of Burnt Weeny Sandwich....
  - The Mothers of Invention
  The Mothers of Invention
  
  The Mothers of Invention was an American rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975. They mainly performed works by and were the original recording group of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa, although other members have an occasional writing credit....
  
• Well Now Dig This - The Jodimars
  The Jodimars
  
  The Jodimars was an United States rock and roll band that was formed in the summer of 1955 and remained active until 1958. The band was created by former members of Bill Haley & His Comets who had quit that group in a salary dispute....
  
• Wishbone Ash
  Wishbone Ash (album)
  
  Wishbone Ash is the first album by Wishbone Ash. The band's debut album became a reality when they were opening for Deep Purple in early 1970....
  - Wishbone Ash
  Wishbone Ash
  
  Wishbone Ash are a United Kingdom Rock music band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s with their distinctive mellow sound, and popular records including Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub and New England ....
  
• Woodstock - Various
• Workingman's Dead
  Workingman's Dead
  
  Workingman's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded in February 1970 and originally released on June 14, 1970....
  - Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  
• The World of Johnny Cash
  The World of Johnny Cash
  
  The World of Johnny Cash is a compilation album released by country music singer Johnny Cash on Columbia Records in 1970 . It contains some of Cash's minor hits, as well as several songs that were never released as singles....
  - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Yeti
  Yeti (album)
  
  Yeti is a double album Gramophone record by rock musicians Amon D??l II which was released in 1970....
  - Amon Düül II
  Amon Düül II
  
  Amon D??l II is a Germany rock music. The group is generally considered to be one of the founders of the German rock music scene and a seminal influence on the development of Krautrock....
  

• "An American Trilogy
  An American Trilogy
  
  "An American Trilogy" is a song arranged by country songwriter Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley. Presley began performing the song in concert in 1972—a February recording was released by RCA as a single....
  " medley written & arranged by Mickey Newbury
  Mickey Newbury
  
  Mickey Newbury was an United States songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame....
  
• "Bein' Green" w.m. Joe Raposo
  Joe Raposo
  
  Joseph Guilherme Raposo Jr., Order of Infante D. Henrique was a Portugal-United States composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the Sesame Street Theme, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C i...
  , from the TV series Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" w.m. John C. Fogerty
• "I Love youuuuuu" w.m. Jeff Moss
  Jeff Moss
  
  Jeffrey Arnold Moss was a composer, lyricist and television writer, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street....
  , from the TV series Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• "If Not For You" w.m. Bob Dylan
• "Kentucky Rain" w.m. Eddie Rabbitt
  Eddie Rabbitt
  
  Edward Thomas Rabbitt was a country music singer. He enjoyed much pop success in his career, helping develop the Crossover -influenced sound in country music during the 1970s and 80s....
   & Dick Heard
• "The Ladies Who Lunch" w.m. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
  . Introduced by Elaine Stritch
  Elaine Stritch
  
  Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist, best known for her trademark performance of "The Ladies Who Lunch" in Company , her 2001 one-woman show #Return to stage, and most recently for her role as Jack Donaghy's mother List of recurring characters on 30 Rock on NBC's 30 Rock....
   in the musical Company
  Company (musical)
  
  Company is a Musical theatre with a book by George Furth and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Originally entitled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby , the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends....
  .
• "Lookin' Out My Back Door" w.m. John C. Fogerty
• "People in Your Neighborhood" w.m. Jeff Moss
  Jeff Moss
  
  Jeffrey Arnold Moss was a composer, lyricist and television writer, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street....
  , from the TV series Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• "Rubber Duckie" w.m. Jeff Moss
  Jeff Moss
  
  Jeffrey Arnold Moss was a composer, lyricist and television writer, best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street....
  , from the TV series Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  
  Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
  
• "Teach Your Children" w.m. Graham Nash
  Graham Nash
  
  Graham William Nash is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills & Nash ....
  
• "(They Long to Be) Close to You
  (They Long to Be) Close to You
  
  " Close to You" is a popular song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was first recorded by Richard Chamberlain and released as a single in 1963 in music as "They Long to Be Close to You," without parentheses....
  " w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  
• "Who'll Stop The Rain?" w.m. John C. Fogerty
• "Where Do I Begin
  (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
  
  " Love Story" is a popular music song published in 1970 in music, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. The song was introduced in the movie Love Story ....
  " (Love Story
  Love Story (1970 film)
  
  Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....
  ) - w. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  
  Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
  , m. Francis Lai
  Francis Lai
  
  Francis Lai is a composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene....
  

• Sir Arthur Bliss
  Arthur Bliss
  
  Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Companion of Honour, Royal Victorian Order was a British composer....
   - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
  
• Ancient Voices of Children for mezzo-soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players)
• Black Angels (Images I) for electric string quartet
• Charles Dodge
  Charles Dodge
  
  Charles Dodge may refer to:* Charles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General during the American Civil War at the age of twenty-one* Charles Dodge , composer of electronic music...
   - Earth's Magnetic Field
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
   - Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and electronic sound
• Luc Ferrari
  Luc Ferrari
  
  Luc Ferrari, French composer born on February 5, 1929 in Paris - deceased on August 22, 2005 in Arezzo in Italy....
   - Presque rien No. 1 "Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer"
• Miloslav Kabelác
  Miloslav Kabelác
  
  Miloslav Kabel?c was a prominent Czech people composer and Conducting. Miloslav Kabel?c belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work can be compared with Anton?n Dvor?k or Bohuslav Martinu....
   - Symphony No. 8 "Antiphonies"
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  
  Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
   - Continuum

• Herman D. Koppel - Macbeth

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