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• January - The Ramones
  Ramones
  
  The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
   form.
• January - 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....
   releases her monumental album Court and Spark
  Court and Spark
  
  Court and Spark is Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell's 1974 full-length release. Her most commercially successful album, Court and Spark infused her folk-rock style with jazz inflections....
  , supported by the single "Help Me" reaching the highest moment of commercial success.
• February 1 - 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....
   release their album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
  What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
  
  What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits is the fourth studio album by United States Rock music band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1974 in music....
   featuring their signature and hit song "Black Water".
• February 8 - KISS
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
   releases their self-titled debut album
  KISS (album)
  
  Kiss is the self-titled debut album from the United States hard rock band Kiss . When it was released, on February 18, 1974, Kiss had been a band for little more than one year....
  .
• February 10 - record producer
  Record producer
  
  In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
   Phil Spector
  Phil Spector
  
  Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
   is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret.
• February 12 - New York
  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....
  's rock club, Bottom Line
  Bottom Line
  
  The Bottom Line was an intimate music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village, at 15 West Fourth Street between Broadway and Washington Square Park....
  , opens in Greenwich Village
  Greenwich Village
  
  Greenwich Village , often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the lower west side of southern Manhattan in New York City....
  .
• February 14 - The Captain & Tennille
  Captain & Tennille
  
  Captain & Tennille are United States pop music recording artists who achieved recording chart success from 1975-80 with a repertoire of romance and novelty hit songs....
   are married in Virginia City, Nevada
  Virginia City, Nevada
  
  Virginia City is an unincorporated area that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, Nevada, United States. It is part of the Reno, Nevada–Sparks, Nevada Reno-Sparks metropolitan area....
  .
• February 18 - 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....
   sells out the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden
  
  Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City....
  , without a bit of advertising for the show.
• February 20 - Cher
  Cher
  
  Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
   files for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Sonny Bono
  Sonny Bono
  
  Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an United States record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades....
  .
• March 12 - 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....
   is involved in an altercation with a photographer outside the Troubadour Club
  The Troubadour
  
  The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, USA, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Doheny Drive and the border of Beverly Hills, California....
   in Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  . Lennon and friend 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....
   had been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and were forced to leave the club.
• March 16 - Country music's Grand Ole Opry moves to a new location at the Opryland USA theme park
  Opryland USA
  
  Opryland USA was a amusement park located in Nashville, Tennessee. It operated from 1972 until 1997. During the late 1980s nearly 2.5 million people visited the park annually....
   in Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  
  Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  
• March 30 - The Ramones
  Ramones
  
  The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
   play their first concert at the Performance Studio in 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....
  .
• April 4 - Van Halen
  Van Halen
  
  Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
   play their first gig on the Sunset Strip
  Sunset Strip
  
  The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile and a half strip of land of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with Hollywood, Los Angeles, California at Crescent Heights Boulevard, to its western border with Beverly Hills, California at Doheny Drive....
   in Hollywood at Gazzarri's
  Gazzarri's
  
  Gazzarri's was a nightclub on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, California, United States. The Key Club opened in 1996 at the same location after Gazzari's was demolished....
  .
• April 6 - 200,000 music fans attend The California Jam rock festival. Artists performing at the event include Emerson, Lake and Palmer, 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....
  , 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....
  , Black Oak Arkansas
  Black Oak Arkansas
  
  Black Oak Arkansas is an United States Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade....
  , and the Eagles.
• April 6 - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
   win the Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....
   in Brighton, England, kickstarting their stellar international career.
• April 25 - Pam Morrison
  Pamela Courson
  
  Pamela Susan Courson was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, vocalist of The Doors. After the deaths of Morrison and Courson, her parents petitioned an out-of-state court to declare that the couple had a Common-law marriage....
  , 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....
  's widow, is found dead in her Hollywood, California apartment from an apparent heroin overdose.
• August 7 - Peter Wolf
  Peter Wolf
  
  File:PeterWolfPerforming.jpgFor the Austrian-born composer, producer, songwriter and arranger, see Peter Wolf .Peter Wolf is an United States rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J....
  , lead singer of The J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway
  Faye Dunaway
  
  Dorothy Faye Dunaway , known as Faye Dunaway, is an United States actor. She has starred in a variety of films, from blockbusters such as The Towering Inferno and the camp classic Mommie Dearest , to the most critically acclaimed including Bonnie and Clyde , Chinatown , and Network ....
  .
• August 17 Ramones play their first concert at CBGB
  CBGB
  
  CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk rock and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Misfits , Television , the Patti Smith, Willy Deville, The...
  . The venue would help establish their place at the forefront of punk rock
  Punk rock
  
  Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
  .
• December 12- Mick Taylor
  Mick Taylor
  
  Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor and another performance from the Old Grey Whistle Test seem to be the only material available from this brief collaboration....
   leaves 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....
   after 6 years
• December 31- Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
  
  Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being a member of the musical group Fleetwood Mac....
   and Stevie Nicks
  Stevie Nicks
  
  Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million albums....
   join Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
   releases her debut recording, "Hey Joe
  Hey Joe
  
  "Hey Joe" is an United States popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock and roll standard, and as such has been performed in a multitude of musical styles....
  ", which many consider to be the first punk rock single.
• Lord Shorty's Endless Vibrations is the first soca
  Soca music
  
  Soca is a form of dance music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from calypso music. It originally combined the melodic lilting sound of calypso with insistent percussion and local chutney music....
   LP and the first major soca hit worldwide.
• Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  
  Peter Brian Gabriel is a Grammy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated England musician and songwriter. He first rose to fame as the lead vocals and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis ....
   leaves 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....
   and begins solo career.
• Rover Thomas
  Rover Thomas
  
  Rover Thomas Joolama was an Indigenous Australian artist. He was born at Gunawaggi in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. At the age of ten Rover and his family moved to the Kimberley region of Western Australia where, as was usual at the time, he began work as a stockman....
   claims to have been visited in a dream by a deceased friend near Warmun, Australia
  Australia
  
  Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
   and receives the Krill Krill song cycle.
• Dino Martin
  Dean Paul Martin
  
  Dean Paul Martin was an United States singer and actor.The son of the performer Dean Martin, he was "Dino" in the pop group Dino, Desi, & Billy....
  , singer and son of Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  , is arrested on suspicion of possession and sale of two machine guns.
• Journey
  Journey (band)
  
  Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
   signs to Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  
  Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
  .
• Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
   forms.
• The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  
  The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
   form with original line up.
• Daniel Amos
  Daniel Amos
  
  Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
   forms out of the remnants of Jubal's Last Band
  Daniel Amos
  
  Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
  .
• Twenty years after it was recorded, "Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar blues from 1952 in music, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers . The song is ranked #158 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
  " by Bill Haley and His Comets returns to the Billboard Top 40, after it gains renewed popularity from its use in the film American Graffiti
  American Graffiti
  
  American Graffiti is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....
   and the TV series Happy Days
  Happy Days
  
  Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
  .
• Robin Zander
  Robin Zander
  
  Robin Zander is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick....
   joins with Tom Petersson
  Tom Petersson
  
  Tom Petersson is the bass guitar for the rock band Cheap Trick....
  , Bun E. Carlos
  Bun E. Carlos
  
  Bun E. Carlos is the drummer for United States of America rock band Cheap Trick. He is the band's chief setlister and archivist, and maintains recordings of all the band's shows, some of which have been released under the name 'Bun E's Bootlegs'....
   and Rick Nielson and the "real" Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  
  Cheap Trick is a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
   band line up as we have come to know is formed.
• The original Alice Cooper group breaks up. The band's leader, Vincent Furnier, changes his name to 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...
   and goes on to a solo career.

Bands formed

• Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
   (originally Angel and the Snake, changed name in 1975)
• Japan
  Japan (band)
  
  Japan were a United Kingdom pop/rock group, formed in 1974 in Lewisham, southeast London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement ....
  
• The Nits
  The Nits
  
  The Nits are a Dutch art rock group, founded in 1974. Their musical style has varied considerably over the years, as has their line-up with the core of Henk Hofstede , Rob Kloet, drummer, Robert Jan Stips , keyboards....
  
• The Ramones
  Ramones
  
  The Ramones were an American Rock music band often regarded as the first punk rock group. Formed in Forest Hills, Queens, Queens, New York, in 1974, all of the band members adopted stage names ending with "Ramone", though none of them were actually related....
  
• Talking Heads
  Talking Heads
  
  Talking Heads was an American rock music rock band formed in 1974 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison....
  
• The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  
  The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
  
• Van Halen
  Van Halen
  
  Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
  

Albums released

• Alvorecer - Clara Nunes
  Clara Nunes
  
  Clara Francisca Nunes Pinheiro was a Brazilian samba musician who had worked in a factory in her teens. Her first album, in 1965, had a mix of boleros and sambas....
  
• Apostrophe - 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....
  
• Autobahn
  Autobahn (album)
  
  Autobahn is an album by Kraftwerk, released in 1974. The album?s Autobahn was edited to about 3 minutes for single release and reached #25 on the United States Billboard magazine charts, charting even higher around Europe, including #11 in the UK....
   - Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk
  
  Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from D?sseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, Repetitive music rhythms with catchy melody, mainly following a Western classical music style of harmony, with a minimalism and strictly electronic instrumentation....
  
• Bad Company
  Bad Company (album)
  
  Bad Company is the eponymous debut album by hard rock band Bad Company.The album was recorded at Headley Grange with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio in November 1973....
   - Bad Company
  Bad Company
  
  Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
   (debut)
• Badfinger
  Badfinger (album)
  
  Badfinger is the fifth album by the rock music Badfinger. The album was recorded in the autumn of 1973 and released in 1974 on Warner Bros. Records....
   - 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....
  
• Before The Flood
  Before the Flood
  
  Before the Flood is a 1974 live album by Bob Dylan and The Band, documenting the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour....
   - Bob Dylan & The Band
  The Band
  
  The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
  
• The Best of Top of the Pops '74
  The Best of Top of the Pops '74
  
  The Best Of Top Of The Pops '74 is a 1974 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 Bad Bo - 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....
  
• Breakaway
  Breakaway (Kris Kristofferson album)
  
  Breakaway is the second duet album by Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge, released in 1974 on Monument Records. It is one of three duet albums by the couple....
   - 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"....
   & Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  
  Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  
• Burn
  Burn (album)
  
  Burn is the eighth studio album by hard rock group Deep Purple. It was recorded in Montreux in November 1973 with the The Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, and released in February 1974....
   - 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....
  
• Can't Get Enough
  Can't Get Enough (Barry White album)
  
  Can't Get Enough is Soul music singer Barry White's third album. Released in 1974 it is one of White's most successful albums, featuring the hit "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" which placed #1 on US charts....
   - Barry White
  Barry White
  
  Barry White DBE was an United States record producer and singer-songwriter.A multiple Grammy Award-winner known for his rich basso voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s with the the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul music, funk, and disco songs....
  
• Caribou
  Caribou (album)
  
  Caribou is the 8th studio album by Great Britain singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1974 . It was John's 4th chart-topping album 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....
  
• The Civil Surface
  The Civil Surface
  
  The Civil Surface is Egg ?s third and final album. It was released in 1974. The band had broken up in 1972, not before performing some new material during their last concerts....
   - 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....
  
• The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories
  The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories
  
  The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories is the fifth studio album by Kevin Ayers. Ayers moved to Island Records for this release which employed a vast array of session musicians....
   - 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."...
  
• Country Life
  Country Life (album)
  
  Country Life is the fourth album by United Kingdom Rock and Roll band Roxy Music, released in 1974 and reaching #3 in the UK charts. It also made #37 in the United States, their first record to crack the Top 40 there....
   - Roxy Music
  Roxy Music
  
  Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry . The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson ....
  
• Court and Spark
  Court and Spark
  
  Court and Spark is Canadian singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell's 1974 full-length release. Her most commercially successful album, Court and Spark infused her folk-rock style with jazz inflections....
   - 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....
  
• Crime of the Century - Supertramp
  Supertramp
  
  Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
  
• Dandruff
  Dandruff (album)
  
  Dandruff is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1974. It was the first of three LPs that Cutler released through Virgin Records in the mid-1970s; Cutler had signed to the label after an appearance on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, which Virgin had released earlier that year....
   - Ivor Cutler
  Ivor Cutler
  
  Ivor Cutler was a Scotland poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme....
  
• Dark Horse
  Dark Horse (album)
  
  Dark Horse is an album by George Harrison, released as the follow-up to Living in the Material World in 1974. Dark Horse is notable for the well-attended, but ultimately infamous North American tour that supported it, which would turn out to be Harrison's only set of performances there as a solo artist....
   - 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"....
  
• David Live
  David Live
  
  David Live is David Bowie?s first official live album, originally released by RCA in 1974. Recorded on the initial leg of Bowie?s US tour supporting Diamond Dogs in July of that year , it is generally held by critics, fans, and Bowie himself alike to be a commercial stopgap lacking in energy....
   - 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....
  
• Diamond Dogs
  Diamond Dogs
  
  Diamond Dogs is a concept album by David Bowie, originally released by RCA Records in 1974. Thematically it was a marriage of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Bowie's own glam-tinged vision of a post-apocalyptic world....
   - David Bowie
• Desolation Boulevard
  Desolation Boulevard
  
  Desolation Boulevard, released in 1974, is the second album by Sweet that year. It contains one of the band's best known songs, "Fox on the Run "....
   - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  
  Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  
• Eldorado - 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....
  
• Elis & Tom
  Elis & Tom
  
  Elis & Tom is a 1974 album by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina recorded in Los Angeles, California....
   - Elis Regina
  Elis Regina
  
  Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was a singer of M?sica Popular Brasileira who achieved great success and recognition during her lifetime....
   & Tom 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....
  
• Ella in London
  Ella in London
  
  Ella in London is a 1974 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a quartet led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan.It is significant as Fitzgerald's only live album recorded in England, although a decade earlier she had recorded three songs for her 1964 album Hello, Dolly! in London....
   - 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....
  
• Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1
  Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1
  
  DetailsElvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 is a Greatest Hits collection from the rock star Elvis Presley issued in 1974 by RCA Records. It features 14 tracks, which includes twelve songs and two interviews with Presley....
   - 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"....
  
• Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
  Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis
  
  Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis is an album of recordings by Elvis Presley released by RCA Records in 1974 and recorded on March 20, 1974, in front of a live audience in Memphis, Tennessee, Presley's hometown....
   (live) - Elvis Presley
• The End
  The End (Nico album)
  
  The End is the fourth studio album by Nico, released in 1974. The album was her fifth collaboration with John Cale and third with him as producer....
   - Nico
  Nico
  
  Christa P?ffgen was a German musician, Model , actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo artist....
  
• Endless Summer
  Endless Summer (album)
  
  Endless Summer is a pop music compilation album by The Beach Boys, released on June 24, 1974 .A collection of hits from the pre-Pet Sounds period, Endless Summer , was compiled by their old label Capitol Records while The Beach Boys were contracted 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....
  
• Faust IV
  Faust IV
  
  Faust IV is a 1974 album by the pioneering Germany krautrock group Faust .Opener "Krautrock" is a drone-based instrumental where the drums kick in only after seven minutes, whilst later tracks such as "The Sad Skinhead" and "Jennifer" employ more conventional songwriting techniques....
   - Faust
  Faust (band)
  
  Faust is a Germany krautrock band, originally comprising Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Herv? P?ron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter W?sthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner....
  
• Fall Into Spring
  Fall Into Spring
  
  Fall Into Spring is a 1974 album by Rita Coolidge and was released on the A&M Records label....
   - Rita Coolidge
  Rita Coolidge
  
  Rita Coolidge is a Grammy Award winning United States singing. She is of Cherokee Native Americans in the United States and Scotland descent....
  
• Fear
  Fear (John Cale album)
  
  Fear is a 1974_in_music album by John Cale. It was the first of three albums for Island Records, all of which were released in a period of just over a year....
   - 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....
  
• Feats Don't Fail Me Now
  Feats Don't Fail Me Now
  
  Feats Don't Fail Me Now is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1974. ....
   - Little Feat
  Little Feat
  
  Little Feat is an United States Rock music formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboard player Bill Payne in 1969 in music in Los Angeles, California....
  
• Fine and Mellow - Ella Fitzgerald
• Floating World - Jade Warrior
  Jade Warrior (band)
  
  Jade Warrior are a British music group that were formed in 1970, evolving out of the band July. The founding members were Tony Duhig , Jon Field and Glyn Havard ....
  
• Fly to the Rainbow
  Fly to the Rainbow
  
  Fly To The Rainbow is the second studio album by Germany hard rock/heavy metal music band Scorpions , released in 1974. In support of their Lonesome Crow album, Scorpions landed a spot as the opening act for the band UFO ....
   - Scorpions
  Scorpions (band)
  
  Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
  
• 461 Ocean Boulevard
  461 Ocean Boulevard
  
  461 Ocean Boulevard is a 1974 in music album by blues rock musician Eric Clapton. In creating his first album after quitting heroin and his second after the dissolution of Derek & the Dominos, Clapton was under pressure during the recording of 461 Ocean Boulevard, but the album received rave reviews upon its release....
   - Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  
• Free and Easy - Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy
  
  Helen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award, been a theatrical stage performer appearing on Broadway theatre, an actress in feature films and credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman"....
  
• Fulfillingness' First Finale
  Fulfillingness' First Finale
  
  Fulfillingness' First Finale is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on July 22, 1974. It was the fourth of five consecutive albums widely hailed as his "classic period", along with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key of Life....
   - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  
• Good Old Boys
  Good old boys
  
  Good old boys or "good ole boys/good ol' boys" is an United States slang term that can have both positive and negative meanings, depending on context and usage....
   - 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....
  
• Good Things Happening
  Good Things Happening
  
  Good Things Happening is the first album released by the new line-up of pop group Brotherhood of Man. This line up consisted of Martin Lee , Lee Sheriden, Nicky Stevens and Sandra Stevens and was to be the main line-up of the group's history and would hold for the next ten albums....
   - Brotherhood of Man
  Brotherhood of Man
  
  Brotherhood of Man are a United Kingdom pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me"....
  
• Good Times
  Good Times (Elvis Presley album)
  
  Good Times is a 1974 album by Elvis Presley.The album was constructed by the first pick of a session held by Elvis in Memphis, it includes a collection of songs that vary in style and genre....
   - Elvis Presley
• Goodbye - Gene Ammons
  Gene Ammons
  
  Eugene "Jug" Ammons was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18....
  
• Goodnight Vienna
  Goodnight Vienna
  
  Goodnight Vienna is the fourth solo album by Ringo Starr. It was recorded in the summer of 1974 in Los Angeles, and released later that year....
   - 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....
  
• Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel
  Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel
  
  Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album by the Grateful Dead. The album is generally regarded as one of the group's best mid-1970s studio releases....
   - 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...
  
• Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
• Greatest Hits - 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...
  
• Grievous Angel
  Grievous Angel
  
  Grievous Angel was the second solo album by Gram Parsons, compiled from 1973 sessions and posthumously released four months after his death....
   - Gram Parsons
  Gram Parsons
  
  Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons was a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers....
  
• Hall of the Mountain Grill
  Hall of the Mountain Grill
  
  Hall of the Mountain Grill is a 1974 album by space rock band Hawkwind, regarded by many critics and fans as a career highlight....
   - 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....
  
• Hamburger Concerto
  Hamburger Concerto
  
  Hamburger Concerto, is a 1974 studio album by the band Focus . It rose to #17 in the UK charts....
   - Focus
  Focus (band)
  
  Focus is a Netherlands progressive rock band. It was founded by classically trained organ /flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969. It is most famous for the songs "Hocus Pocus " and "Sylvia"....
  
• The Heart of Saturday Night
  The Heart of Saturday Night
  
  The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. It is generally considered the peak of his melodic early years, before his voice became gruffer and he embarked on an experimental musical direction....
   - Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  
  Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
  
• Here Come the Warm Jets
  Here Come the Warm Jets
  
  Here Come the Warm Jets is the debut solo album by Brian Eno. Produced by Eno, it was released on Island Records in 1973. The musical style of Here Come the Warm Jets is a hybrid of glam rock and art rock, similar to Eno's previous album work with Roxy Music but with songs that are more quirky and experimental....
   - Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
  
• Hergest Ridge
  Hergest Ridge (album)
  
  Hergest Ridge is a vinyl record, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield released in 1974 . It was his second album and like its predecessor, Tubular Bells, was number 1 in the UK album charts, but unlike its predecessor, it went straight in at the top spot....
   - Mike Oldfield
  Mike Oldfield
  
  Mike Oldfield is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk music, ethnic or world music, European classical music, electronic music, New Age music and more recently dance music....
  
• Heroes Are Hard to Find
  Heroes Are Hard to Find
  
  Heroes Are Hard to Find is a studio album by Great Britain rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1974 . This is the last album with Bob Welch , who left at the end of 1974, and was replaced by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks....
   - Fleetwood Mac
  Fleetwood Mac
  
  Fleetwood Mac are a United Kingdom/United States rock music band formed in 1967 which have experienced a high turnover of personnel and varied levels of success....
  
• The Hoople
  The Hoople
  
  The Hoople is a 1974 album by Great Britain band Mott the Hoople. Its highest chart rating in the US was #28. A remastered and expanded version was released by Sony BMG on the Columbia Legacy label in Europe in 2006....
   - Mott the Hoople
  Mott the Hoople
  
  Mott the Hoople were a 1970s England rock music musical ensemble with strong Rhythm and blues roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s....
  
• Hotcakes
  Hotcakes (Carly Simon)
  
  Hotcakes is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's fourth studio album, released in 1974.Hotcakes became one of Simon's biggest selling albums....
   - Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  
• Hotter Than Hell
  Hotter Than Hell
  
  Hotter Than Hell is the second album from the rock group Kiss . It was certified Gold album on June 23, 1977, having sold 500,000 copies. The album was Reissue in 1997 in a remastered version....
   - Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
  
• I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
  I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
  
  After the marked lack of success achieved by his first album, Henry The Human Fly, British singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson struck up a personal and professional relationship with Linda Thompson , a Session musician singer....
   - Richard and Linda Thompson
  Linda Thompson (singer)
  
  Linda Thompson is a United Kingdom singer. Born Linda Pettifer in the London Borough of Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock legend, guita...
  
• If You Love Me, Let Me Know
  If You Love Me, Let Me Know
  
  If You Love Me, Let Me Know was a United States and Canada-only album by singer Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974....
   - Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  
  Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
  
• I'm Leaving It All Up to You
  I'm Leaving It All Up to You
  
  I'm Leaving It All Up To You is a debut album by Donny Osmond & Marie Osmond, released in 1974 . Two singles were released from the album: "I'm Leaving It Up To You" and "Morning Side Of The Mountain" ....
   - Donny
  Donny Osmond
  
  Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an United States singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author....
   and Marie Osmond
  Marie Osmond
  
  Olive Marie Osmond is an United States actress, singer, doll designer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s....
  
• It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - 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....
  
• It's Too Late to Stop Now
  It's Too Late to Stop Now
  
  It's Too Late to Stop Now is a live album by Northern Ireland singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1974 . Frequently named as one of the best live albums ever recorded, It's Too Late to Stop Now was recorded during what has often been said to be Morrison's greatest phase as a live performer....
   - 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....
  
• Jolene
  Jolene (album)
  
  Jolene is a 1974 Dolly Parton album, produced by Bob Ferguson .The title track "Jolene " tells the tale of a housewife confronting a beautiful seductress who she believes is having an affair with her husband....
   - Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music....
  
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  Journey to the Centre of the Earth (album)
  
  Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is Rick Wakeman's second solo album, released in 1974. It is loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth....
   - Rick Wakeman
  Rick Wakeman
  
  Richard Christopher Wakeman is an England keyboard player best known as the keyboardist for progressive rock group Yes . Originally a classically trained pianist, he was a pioneer in the use of electronic keyboards and in the use of a rock band in combination with orchestra and choir....
  
• June 1, 1974 - Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico
  Nico
  
  Christa P?ffgen was a German musician, Model , actress, and Warhol Superstar who is best known by her stage name Nico. She is renowned for both her tenure in The Velvet Underground and for her work as a solo artist....
  
• Kansas
  Kansas (album)
  
  Kansas is the self-titled debut album by American progressive rock band Kansas , released in 1974.Kansas's debut album is the result of a merger between two Topeka musical camps: Kerry Livgren, from a previous Kansas line-up, and White Clover, a more traditional southern-style rock band in the vein of Lynyrd Skynyrd....
   - Kansas
  Kansas (band)
  
  Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
   (debut)
• Kimono My House
  Kimono My House
  
  Kimono My House is the third album by Sparks .The album title is generally assumed to be a pun on the Rosemary Clooney hit Come on-a My House....
   - Sparks
  Sparks (band)
  
  Sparks is an American rock music and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron Mael and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson ....
  
• Kiss
  KISS (album)
  
  Kiss is the self-titled debut album from the United States hard rock band Kiss . When it was released, on February 18, 1974, Kiss had been a band for little more than one year....
   - Kiss
  KISS (band)
  
  Kiss is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in New York City in December 1972. Easily identified by its members' trademark face paint and stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid and late-1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and...
   (debut)
• Late for the Sky
  Late for the Sky
  
  Late for the Sky is the third album by United States singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1974 .Late for the Sky was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975, but did not win....
   - Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne
  
  Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock music singer-songwriter and musician. His introspective lyrics made him the poster boy of the Southern California confessional singer-songwriter movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s....
  
• The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
  The Lamb Lies down on Broadway
  
  The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is a concept album recorded and released in 1974 by the United Kingdom progressive rock band Genesis . It was their sixth studio album and the last album by the group to feature the involvement of lead singer Peter Gabriel....
   - 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....
  
• L'isola di niente
  L'isola di niente
  
  L'isola di niente is the fourth album of the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi, published in 1974....
   - Premiata Forneria Marconi
  Premiata Forneria Marconi
  
  Premiata Forneria Marconi is an Italy progressive rock band. They were the first Italian band to have success abroad, entering both the United Kingdom and United States charts....
  
• Live! - April Wine
• Live in London '74 - 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...
  
• Live in Japan - 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 ....
  
• Live Rhymin' - Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  
  Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  
• Living In The 70's - Skyhooks
  Skyhooks
  
  Skyhooks were an Australian rock music band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band,although this is mainly the result of the band's flamboyant costumes and make-up....
  
• Love Song for Jeffrey - Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy
  
  Helen Reddy is an Australian/American singer-songwriter. She has won a Grammy Award, been a theatrical stage performer appearing on Broadway theatre, an actress in feature films and credited with writing and singing one of the most iconic and culturally significant songs of the 1970s, "I Am Woman"....
  
• Loud 'n' Proud
  Loud 'n' Proud
  
  Loud 'n' Proud was the fourth studio album by album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth , and their second to be released in 1973....
   - Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  
  Nazareth are a Scottish rock music band that had several hard rock chart-topper in the mid 1970s, including the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songwriter ballad, "Love Hurts."...
  
• The Main Event – Live
  The Main Event – Live
  
  The Main Event ? Live is a 1974 live album and television special by Frank Sinatra.Sinatra embarked on a six-concert tour in 1974, working with Woody Herman & the Young Thundering Herd, which was conducted by Bill Miller , Sinatra's longtime pianist....
   - 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"....
  
• Manifiesto
  Manifiesto (album)
  
  Manifiesto was the incomplete music album recorded by V?ctor Jara before he was murdered in 1973. It was intended for release in 1974, it was however released posthumous workly that year in Europe with numerous earlier songs added to complete the album....
   - 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...
  
• Man of Miracles
  Man of Miracles
  
  Man of Miracles is the fourth album by Styx , released in November of 1974 in music. Produced by John Ryan and Bill Traut, who had produced the band's first two albums, this would be the band's last original album on the independent Chicago-based label Wooden Nickel Records before moving to the major label A&M....
   - Styx
  Styx (band)
  
  Styx is an American Rock band. Their hit songs have included "Come Sail Away", "Mr. Roboto", "Babe ", "Lady ", "Blue Collar Man" and "The Best of Times ." Styx is the first band to have four consecutive albums certified multi-platinum by the RIAA....
  
• Manuel
  Manuel (album)
  
  Track listing* Manuel* Seule avec moi* Justine* Ta femme* Anima mia* Nous sommes tous morts ? 20 ans* Ma vie je la chante* La consultation...
   - 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....
  
• Meet the Residents
  Meet the Residents
  
  Meet the Residents is the first full-length release from avant garde group The Residents. It was released in 1973 on Ralph Records. The cover was a parody of Meet the Beatles! ; Later re-releases of the record changed the cover, though still kept a Beatles parody on the back, listing The Residents as "John Crawfish, George Crawfish, P...
   - The Residents
  The Residents
  
  The Residents are an United States avant-garde music and visual arts group who have created over sixty albums, created numerous musical short films, designed three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs, and undertaken seven major world tours....
   (debut)
• Miles of Aisles
  Miles of Aisles
  
  Miles of Aisles is a 1974 double album live album by Joni Mitchell backed by the L.A. Express, recorded on the Court and Spark tour. The release became famous for the quality of the performances and some of Mitchell's onstage banter, particularly the "Van Gogh" speech before going into "The Circle Game"....
   - Joni Mitchell
• Mr. Natural
  Mr. Natural (album)
  
  Mr. Natural is the Bee Gees' tenth album, released in May 1974. It was the first Bee Gees release produced by Arif Mardin, who was partially responsible for the group's mega success with Main Course....
   - The Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
  
  The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
  
• Musik Von Harmonia
  Musik Von Harmonia
  
  Musik Von Harmonia is the debut album from the highly influential Krautrock/Kosmische Musik group Harmonia . Harmonia, was formed by the addition of Neu! guitarist Michael Rother to Cluster , the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius....
   - Harmonia
  Harmonia (band)
  
  Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster and later included British ambient music artist Brian Eno....
   (debut)
• Mysterious Traveller
  Mysterious Traveller
  
  Mysterious Traveller is the fourth release of Weather Report. This album marked the end of bassist Miroslav Vitous's tenure with the band. Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson....
   - Weather Report
  Weather Report
  
  Weather Report was an influential jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s combining jazz and latin jazz with art music, ethnic music, r&b, funk and Rock music elements ....
  
• Natty Dread
  Natty Dread
  
  Natty Dread is a 1974 in music reggae album by Bob Marley & the Wailers.An important transition in Marley's discography, Natty Dread was the first album released as Bob Marley & the Wailers and the first recorded without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer....
   - Bob Marley
  Bob Marley
  
  Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
  
• A Nice Pair
  A Nice Pair
  
  A Nice Pair is a compilation album by Pink Floyd, re-issuing their first 2 albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets in a new gatefold sleeve....
   - 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....
  
• The Night the Light Went On (In Long Beach)
  The Night the Light Went On (In Long Beach)
  
  The Night the Light Went On is a 1974 live album by the Electric Light Orchestra recorded at the Long Beach Auditorium in Long Beach, California and its title lampoons The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence from '73....
   - 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....
  
• Nightlife
  Nightlife (Thin Lizzy album)
  
  Nightlife is the fourth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1974 , and produced by Ron Nevison and Philip Lynott. The album cover contains a panther-like creature in a city scene, and the panther was intended to represent Lynott....
   - Thin Lizzy
  Thin Lizzy
  
  Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Republic of Ireland in 1969. The band were led throughout their recording career by Bass guitar, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott, and are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak " and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regula...
  
• 1969: The Velvet Underground Live
  1969: The Velvet Underground Live
  
  1969: The Velvet Underground Live is a live album by The Velvet Underground. It was originally released as a double album in September 1974 by Mercury 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....
  
• Not Fragile
  Not Fragile
  
  Not Fragile is the third album by Canada rock music band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1974 . The title could be thought of as a response to Yes ' Fragile ....
   - 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....
  
• Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces
  Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces
  
  Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces is the seventh studio album by British jazz-rock band If , released in 1974....
   - 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....
  
• Olympia 74
  Olympia 74
  
  Track listing* Entrez sans frapper* Pour ne pas vivre seul* Nous sommes tous morts ? 20 ans* Que sont devenues les fleurs?* ? Seigneur Dieu* ll venait d'avoir 18 ans...
   - Dalida
• On the Beach - 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....
  
• On the Border
  On the Border
  
  On the Border is the third studio album by the American rock band Eagles, released in 1974 . Don Felder joined the band during the recording of this album.The song "My Man" is a tribute to country musician Gram Parsons....
   - Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• Odds & Sods - 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....
  
• Perfect Angel
  Perfect Angel
  
  Perfect Angel is the second studio album by Minnie Riperton, released in 1974 by Epic Records. It was re-released on Compact Disc on October 25, 1990....
   - Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Riperton
  
  Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her five-and-a-half octave vocal range and her 1975 single "Lovin' You"....
  
• Phaedra
  Phaedra (album)
  
  Phaedra is an album by the Germany electronic music group Tangerine Dream.This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic Music sequencer-driven sound, which kicked off the whole Berlin School of electronic music genre....
   - 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....
  
• Phenonmenon
  Phenomenon (UFO album)
  
  Phenomenon is the fourth album by the British rock band UFO , released in May, 1974....
   - UFO
  UFO (band)
  
  UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
  
• Planet Waves
  Planet Waves
  
  Planet Waves is Bob Dylan's 14th studio album, released by Asylum Records in 1974.Dylan is supported on the album by longtime collaborators The Band, with whom he embarked on a major reunion tour following its release Despite the successful tour and a host of publicity, Planet Waves was only moderately successful, enjoying a brie...
   - Bob Dylan
• The Power and the Glory
  The Power and the Glory (album)
  
  The Power and the Glory is an album by the United Kingdom progressive rock group Gentle Giant released in 1974. Both the title of the album and many lyrical themes were inspired by author Graham Greene's novel of the same name....
   - Gentle Giant
  Gentle Giant
  
  Gentle Giant was a United Kingdom progressive rock band , one of the most experimental of the 1970s. Textually inspired by philosophy, personal events and the works of Fran?ois Rabelais, the group was noted for their collective multi-instrumental virtuosity and the particular complexity and sophistication of their musical material ....
  
• Pretzel Logic
  Pretzel Logic
  
  Pretzel Logic is the third Steely Dan album, originally released in 1974. The album's opening song, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", became the band's biggest hit, reaching #4 on the charts soon after the release of the album....
   - Steely Dan
  Steely Dan
  
  Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  
• Queen II
  Queen II
  
  Queen II is the second album by England Rock music Musical ensemble Queen , originally released in 1974. It was recorded at Trident Studios, London, England in August 1973, and engineered by Mike "Clay" Stone....
   - 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....
  
• Quo - 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....
  
• Rampant
  Rampant (album)
  
  Rampant was the fifth studio album by album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth , released in 1974....
   - Nazareth
• Red
  Red (album)
  
  Red is a 1974 album by progressive rock group King Crimson. It was their last recording of the 1970s and the last before the lead member Robert Fripp temporarily disbanded the group....
   - 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...
  
• Relayer
  Relayer
  
  Relayer is the seventh studio album by the progressive rock band Yes . Recorded and released in 1974, it is the only Yes studio album to feature Patrick Moraz, who replaced keyboardist Rick Wakeman earlier in the year....
   - 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....
  
• Remember Me This Way - Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  
• Ride 'Em Cowboy - Paul Davis
  Paul Davis (singer)
  
  Paul Davis was an United States singer, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul music, country music and pop music, and he wrote many memorable country music hits....
  
• Rock Bottom
  Rock Bottom (album)
  
  Rock Bottom is the second solo album by Robert Wyatt.Although Rock Bottom is technically Wyatt's second solo LP, he has stated in several interviews that he considers its predecessor The End of an Ear as juvenilia and not part of the recognised "canon" of Wyatt solo records....
   - 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....
  
• Rocka Rolla
  Rocka Rolla
  
  Rocka Rolla is the debut album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1974. It was produced by Rodger Bain, who had made a name for himself as the producer of Black Sabbath first three albums....
   - Judas Priest
  Judas Priest
  
  Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
  
• Rock 'n' Roll Animal
  Rock 'n' Roll Animal
  
  Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by Lou Reed, released in 1974. In its original form, it features five songs from different periods of his creative career, including several songs by the Velvet Underground....
   - Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
  
• Röda Kapellet - Röda Kapellet
• Rub It In
  Rub It In (album)
  
  Rub It In is a country music album by Billy "Crash" Craddock. It was released in 1974 on ABC Records. It was produced by Ron Chancey. The album yielded two singles that went to #1 on the country music charts, Rub It In and Ruby Baby....
   - Billy "Crash" Craddock
• Rush
  Rush (album)
  
  Rush is the first studio album by Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1974 and remastered in 1997. Rush's first release shows much of the heavy metal music sound similar of many of the popular rock bands emerging from Britain earlier in the decade....
   - Rush
  Rush (band)
  
  Rush is a Canadian Rock music band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale, Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently composed of bass guitar, keyboard instrument, and singer Geddy Lee; electric guitar Alex Lifeson; and drum kit and lyricist Neil Peart....
   (debut)
• Sally Can't Dance
  Sally Can't Dance
  
  Sally Can't Dance is a Top 40 album by Lou Reed. Released in 1974, it is Reed's highest-charting album. It is also the first solo Lou Reed album not to feature any songs originally recorded by Reed's earlier band, The Velvet Underground, as well as the first of Reed's solo studio albums to be recorded in America ....
   - Lou Reed
• Second Helping
  Second Helping
  
  Second Helping is a 1974 in music album by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was the band's second album, and featured their biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama ", an answer song to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama "....
   - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  
• 7-Tease
  7-Tease
  
  7-Tease is the twelfth studio album, and fourteenth album overall, from Scotland singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in November 1974 and in the United Kingdom in January 1975....
   - 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....
  
• Sheer Heart Attack
  Sheer Heart Attack
  
  Sheer Heart Attack is a Queen album from 1974. It was their third studio album, and was produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker for EMI in the UK, and Elektra Records in the US....
   - Queen
• Sheet Music
  Sheet Music (album)
  
  Sheet Music is the second album by Manchester rock music band 10cc. It was released in 1974 and yielded the hit singles "The Wall Street Shuffle" and "Silly Love"....
   - 10cc
  10cc
  
  10cc were an England art rock rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians ? Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme ? who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the ?10cc? name in 1972....
  
• Shinin' On
  Shinin' On
  
  Shinin' On is a 1974 album by Grand Funk Railroad. Although not as successful as its predecessor, We're an American Band, it did go gold in the U.S and peaked at 5....
   - 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....
  
• The Singles: 1969-1973
  The Singles: 1969-1973
  
  The Singles 1969-1973 is an album by the brother/sister pop duo The Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s....
   - The Carpenters
• Slapp Happy
  Slapp Happy (album)
  
  Slapp Happy is an album by Germany/United Kingdom avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor studios in 1974.This album was originally recorded in 1973 in Germany under a working title of Casablanca Moon with Faust as Slapp Happy's backing band, but Polydor Germany rejected it....
   - Slapp Happy
  Slapp Happy
  
  Slapp Happy was a Germany/England avant-pop group consisting of Anthony Moore , Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause . They formed in Germany in 1972, moved to England in 1974 where they merged with Henry Cow, but the merger ended soon afterwards and Slapp Happy split up....
  
• Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley
  Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley (album)
  
  Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley is Robert Palmer 's debut solo album, released in 1974. Palmer is backed by The Meters and Lowell George of Little Feat....
   - Robert Palmer (solo debut)
• Solid - 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....
  
• Some Nice Things I've Missed
  Some Nice Things I've Missed
  
  Some Nice Things I?ve Missed is a 1974 album by the American singer Frank Sinatra.As the title suggests, the bulk of the album consists of songs that became popular during Sinatra's brief retirement, including hits by Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Jim Croce, and Bread ....
   - Frank Sinatra
• Soon Over Babaluma
  Soon Over Babaluma
  
  Soon Over Babaluma is a 1974 album by the rock music group Can . This is the band's first album without a lead vocalist who does not play an instrument, following the departure of Damo Suzuki in 1973 during which he married his German girlfriend....
   - Can
  Can (band)
  
  Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
  
• Spooky Lady's Sideshow
  Spooky Lady's Sideshow
  
  Spooky Lady's Sideshow is the fifth solo album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1974 on Monument Records. It was preceded and followed by duet albums with his wife, Rita Coolidge....
   - 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"....
  
• Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
  Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
  
  Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is a 1974 album by Funkadelic, released on Westbound Records.On this album, the lyrics generally take a backseat to the music and the jamming....
   - 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....
  
• Starless and Bible Black
  Starless and Bible Black
  
  Starless and Bible Black is an album released by the British progressive rock band King Crimson in 1974. Most of the vocal pieces on the album are satires on the sleaziness and materialism of society, similar to the track "Easy Money" on their previous 1973 album Larks' Tongues in Aspic....
   - King Crimson
• Starting Over
  Starting Over (Raspberries album)
  
  Starting Over is the fourth and final album by the 1970s Power pop band The Raspberries. It peaked at #143 on the Billboard pop album chart in 1974; it generated the #18 Billboard pop single "Overnight Sensation" in the same year....
   - Raspberries
• Streetlife Serenade
  Streetlife Serenade
  
  Streetlife Serenade was Billy Joel's third album, and his second with Columbia Records.Streetlife Serenade was released in 1974 , after the hit songs "Piano Man " and "Captain Jack " from the album Piano Man ....
   - Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
  
• Sun Secrets - The Eric Burdon Band
  The Eric Burdon Band
  
  The Eric Burdon Band was a hard rock band formed in April 1973....
  
• Sweet Fanny Adams
  Sweet Fanny Adams (album)
  
  Sweet Fanny Adams is the first of two 1974 albums by Sweet ....
   - Sweet
• Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
  Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
  
  Taking Tiger Mountain is the second solo album by Brian Eno. Produced by Eno, it was originally released by Island Records in November 1974 in a gatefold sleeve....
   - Brian Eno
• Tasty
  Tasty (Good Rats album)
  
  Tasty is a 1974 album by Good Rats and was released on the Warner Brothers Records label....
   - Good Rats
• There's the Rub
  There's the Rub
  
  There's the Rub is the fifth studio album by rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the first album to feature guitarist/vocalist Laurie Wisefield, who would be a major part of the band's creative direction for the next 11 years....
   - 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 ....
  
• Todd
  Todd (album)
  
  Todd is a double album by Todd Rundgren, released in 1974. It was an expansion of his experimentation on A Wizard, a True Star. It showed his growing interest in the synthesizer, and its ability to expand the textures of rock music....
   - Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  
  Todd Harry Rundgren , is an United States musician, singer-songwriter and record producer....
  
• Todd Rundgren's Utopia
  Todd Rundgren's Utopia (album)
  
  Todd Rundgren's Utopia is the debut album by the band Utopia . Rundgren was noticing the success of artists like Genesis , Yes and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and decided to take advantage of the current progressive rock trend....
   - Utopia (debut)
• Up for the Down Stroke
  Up for the Down Stroke
  
  Up for the Down Stroke is a 1974 in music album by Parliament . It was the band's second album , and their first to be released on Casablanca Records....
   - 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....
  
• Veedon Fleece
  Veedon Fleece
  
  Veedon Fleece is the eighth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in October, 1974 . Morrison recorded the album shortly after his divorce from wife Janet Rigsbee....
   - Van Morrison
• Walking Man
  Walking Man
  
  Walking Man is singer-songwriter James Taylor's fifth album. Released on June 1, 1974, it was not as successful as his previous efforts, only reaching #13 on the Billboard Album Chart....
   - 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....
  
• War Child
  War Child (album)
  
  War Child is the seventh studio album by Jethro Tull , released in October 1974.Originally meant to accompany a film project , it was reinstated as a ten-song, single-length rock album after failed attempts to find a major movie studio to finance the film....
   - 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....
  
• Waterloo
  Waterloo (album)
  
  Waterloo is Sweden pop group ABBA's second album, originally released in Sweden on March 4, 1974. The title track of the album won ABBA the Eurovision Song Contest 1974....
   - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• We Had It All
  We Had It All
  
  We Had It All is a 1974 Scott Walker album, and his last solo album for ten years. It was re-released, coupled with Stretch_, by BGO Records ? BGOCD358....
   - 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....
  
• What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
  What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
  
  What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits is the fourth studio album by United States Rock music band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1974 in music....
   - 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....
  
• Where Have I Known You Before
  Where Have I Known You Before
  
  Where Have I Known You Before is the fourth album by seminal jazz fusion band Return to Forever.While the style of music has not changed much since the previous album, Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, important changes have taken place in the band's sound and line-up....
   - Return to Forever
  Return to Forever
  
  Return to Forever was the name of a jazz fusion band founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. The band cycled through many members, with only consistent band mate of Corea's bassist Stanley Clarke....
  
• Winter in America
  Winter in America
  
  Winter in America is a studio album by American Soul music musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson , released in May 1974 on Strata-East Records....
   - 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 ....
  
• Winter Light - Oregon
• Wish You Were Here
  Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)
  
  Wish You Were Here is the sixth album by rock music band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas . It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros....
   - Badfinger
• Wrap Around Joy
  Wrap Around Joy
  
  Wrap Around Joy is a 1974 album by Carole King. The album hit #1 on the Billboard album charts in the fall of 1973 and spun off successful singles with "Jazzman" and "Nightingale" ....
   - Carole King
  Carole King
  
  Carole King is an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period....
  
• Zuckerzeit
  Zuckerzeit
  
  Zuckerzeit is the third full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster . It was co-produced by Michael Rother, their bandmate in Harmonia ....
   - Cluster
  Cluster (band)
  
  Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
  

Biggest hit singles

Other Hit Singles

• "Ain't Too Proud to Beg
  Ain't Too Proud to Beg
  
  "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 hit single by The Temptations for Motown Records' Gordy label, produced by Norman Whitfield and written by Whitfield and Edward Holland, Jr....
  " - 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....
  
• "After The Gold Rush" - Prelude
  Prelude (band)
  
  Prelude are an England based folk music Trio , who in their most famous line-up consisted of Brian Hume , his wife Irene Hume and Ian Vardy . They formed in their native Gateshead in 1970 in music....
  
• "Already Gone
  Already Gone
  
  "Already Gone" is a song written by Jack Tempchin and Robb Strandlin and recorded by the American rock band Eagles for their 1974 album On the Border....
  " - Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• "Always Yours" - Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  
• "Another Park, Another Sunday" - 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....
  
• "Another Saturday Night" - 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....
  
• "Are You Ready to Rock - Wizzard
  Wizzard
  
  Wizzard were a Birmingham-based musical ensemble formed by Roy Wood, former member of The Move and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits states, "Wizzard was Roy Wood just as much as Wings were Paul McCartney."...
  
• "Band on the Run" - Paul McCartney & Wings
  Wings (band)
  
  Wings was a rock music group formed in August 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of the Beatles joined after their break-up....
  
• "Beach Baby" - The First Class
  The First Class
  
  The First Class was a United Kingdom pop music recording studio-based band , put together by songwriter and record producer John Carter ....
  
• "Best of My Love" - Eagles
  Eagles
  
  The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
  
• "Billy Don't Be a Hero
  Billy Don't Be a Hero
  
  "Billy Don't Be a Hero" is a 1974 anti-war pop music song by Paper Lace and was also recorded by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. It was written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander....
  " - Paper Lace
  Paper Lace
  
  Paper Lace was a Nottingham, England based pop music band , formed in 1969. They are known to United States as a one-hit wonder; however, in the United Kingdom they were a "classic two and a half hit wonder" ....
  
• "The Bitch Is Back
  The Bitch Is Back
  
  "The Bitch is Back" is a song by Elton John, written with Bernie Taupin. It was the second single released from his 1974 album Caribou , and reached number 4 in the United States and number 15 in the United Kingdom....
  " - 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....
  
• "Black Water" - 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....
  
• "Break the Rules" - 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 Bump" - Kenny
  Kenny (band)
  
  Kenny were a mid 1970s, England pop music and glam rock band ....
  
• "Bungle in the Jungle
  Bungle in the jungle
  
  The Bungle in the jungle is an epithet, given to a cricket match played on 18 November, 2003. It was an "unmitigated disaster" for England.Played at the Dambulla stadium, in the Sri Lankan jungle, this One Day International is notable for the dismissal of the England cricket team for just 88 runs....
  " - 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....
  
• "Can't Get Enough" - Bad Company
  Bad Company
  
  Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
  
• "Cat's in the Cradle
  Cat's in the Cradle
  
  "Cat's in the Cradle" is a 1974 folk rock song by Harry Chapin from the album Verities & Balderdash. The single topped the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974 and was Chapin's only #1 hit song and became the best known of Chapin's work and a staple for folk rock music....
  " - Harry Chapin
  Harry Chapin
  
  Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for folk rock songs such as "Taxi ," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger, with his work being widely recognized as a key player in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World H...
  
• "Devil Gate Drive" - Suzi Quatro
  Suzi Quatro
  
  Suzi Quatro is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actress....
  
• "Diamond Dogs
  Diamond Dogs (song)
  
  "Diamond Dogs" is a 1974 single by David Bowie, and the title track of the Diamond Dogs.The lyric introduces the listener to Bowie?s latest persona and his environment; Halloween Jack dwells on top of tenement buildings in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan....
  " - 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....
  
• "Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me
  Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  
  "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is the first single from United Kingdom musician Elton John's 1974 album Caribou ; it was released that year during the latter half of May in the United Kingdom, and on June 10 in the United States....
  " - 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....
  
• "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  
  Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
  
• "Down Down
  Down Down
  
  "Down Down" is a popular song by the English rock band, Status Quo.Songwriter by Francis Rossi and Bob Young and record producer by Status Quo, "Down Down" was one of Status Quo's two chart-topper single in the UK Singles Chart so far ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Free Man in Paris" - 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....
  
• "Going Down the Road" - 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....
  
• "Gonna Make You a Star" -David Essex
  David Essex
  
  David Essex Order of the British Empire is an England actor and singer, who has enjoyed a varied show business career....
  
• "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" - Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  
• "Help Me" - 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....
  
• "Honey, Honey" - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• "How Long" - Ace
  Ace (band)
  
  Ace were a United Kingdom rock music band , who enjoyed moderate success in the 1970s. They are notable for their part in the early career of Paul Carrack, who later became famous as a solo musician, and as a member of several other groups....
  
• "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" - 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....
  
• "I Honestly Love You
  I Honestly Love You
  
  "I Honestly Love You" was a worldwide pop music hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-John's first number-one single in the United States and Canada, thus cementing her as a household name in North America....
  " - Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  
  Olivia Newton-John Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire is an England, Australian singer and actor. She is an avid activist for both environmentalism issues and breast cancer awareness....
  
• "I Shot the Sheriff
  I Shot the Sheriff
  
  "I Shot the Sheriff" is a song written by Bob Marley. The song was first released on The Wailers ' album Burnin' .Eric Clapton recorded a cover version that was included on his album, 461 Ocean Boulevard....
  " - Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  
  Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
  
• "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
  I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song
  
  "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" is the title of a posthumously-released single by the United States singer-songwriter Jim Croce. The song was written by Croce and was originally found on his album I Got a Name....
  " - Jim Croce
  Jim Croce
  
  James Joseph Croce , popularly known as Jim Croce, was an United States singer-songwriter.Croce scored a handful of hit songs in the first of half of the '70s, but died in an airplane crash just as he was beginning to capitalize on his success....
  
• "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" - 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....
  
• "Jet
  Jet (song)
  
  "Jet" is a song from Paul McCartney and Wings ' Band on the Run album. The song peaked at #7 in both the UK and U.S. charts on March 30, 1974....
  " - Paul McCartney and Wings
• "Jungle Boogie
  Jungle Boogie
  
  "Jungle Boogie" is a funk song recorded by Kool & the Gang for their 1973 album Wild and Peaceful . It soared to number four as a single and became hugely popular in the clubs....
  " - Kool and the Gang
• "Junior's Farm" - Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Killer Queen" - 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....
  
• "Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies" - The Drifters
  The Drifters
  
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
  
• "Kung Fu Fighting
  Kung Fu Fighting
  
  "Kung Fu Fighting" is a song written and performed by Carl Douglas and Vivian Hawke. It was released as a single in 1974 in music, at the cusp of a chopsocky film bandwagon effect, and quickly rose to the top of Great Britain and United States charts....
  " - Carl Douglas
  Carl Douglas
  
  Carl Douglas is a Jamaica born singing, most famous for his song "Kung Fu Fighting", which reached Chart-topper on both the United States Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1974....
  
• "Let It Ride" - 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....
  
• "The Loco-Motion
  The Loco-Motion
  
  "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop music written by United States songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. The song is notable for making the American Top 5 three times – each time in a different decade: for Little Eva in 1962 ; for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974 ; and for Kylie Minogue in 1988 ....
  " - 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....
  
• "Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black" - 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....
  
• "The Love I Lost" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
• "Love's Theme
  Love's Theme
  
  "Love's Theme" is an instrumental piece recorded by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra and released in 1973. It is one of the few instrumental and purely orchestral singles to reach number one on Billboard 's Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, in early 1974....
  " - Love Unlimited Orchestra
• "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle" - 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....
  
• "Machine Gun" - The Commodores
• "Magic" - Pilot
  Pilot (band)
  
  Pilot was a pop rock group formed in 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by former Bay City Rollers members David Paton and Billy Lyall. This was prior to the Bay City Rollers 'hitting the big time'....
  
• "The Man Who Sold the World" - Lulu
  Lulu (singer)
  
  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
  
• "Midnight at the Oasis" - Maria Muldaur
  Maria Muldaur
  
  Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
  
• "Mockingbird" (with 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....
  ) - Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an United States singer-songwriter, actress, writer of children's books and musician. Simon has risen to fame with Hit single that have nominated or won many Grammy Awards for her over a period of several decades....
  
• "Money
  Money (Pink Floyd song)
  
  "Money" is the sixth track from United Kingdom progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Written by bassist Roger Waters, it opened side two of the original Gramophone record, and is the only song on the album to make it into the top 20 on the United States Single record charts....
  " - 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....
  
• "Mr Soft" - Cockney Rebel
• "My Melody of Love
  My Melody of Love
  
  "My Melody of Love" is the title of a popular song from 1974 by the United States singer Bobby Vinton. Vinton adapted his song from a Germany song composed by Henry Mayer, and it appears on Vinton's album Melodies of Love....
  " - Bobby Vinton
  Bobby Vinton
  
  Bobby Vinton...
  
• "The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
• "Oh Very Young" - 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....
  
• "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" -The Raspberries
  The Raspberries
  
  Raspberries are a power pop/rock and roll band from Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. They had a brief run of success in the 1970s with Beatleesque songs, recalling the heyday of the 1960's "British Invasion"....
  
• "Queen of Clubs" - KC and the Sunshine Band
  KC and the Sunshine Band
  
  KC and the Sunshine Band is an United States musical group. Founded in 1973, their style has included funk, rhythm and blues, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give It Up", and "Please Don't Go"....
  
• "Rebel Rebel
  Rebel Rebel
  
  "Rebel Rebel" is a song by David Bowie, released in 1974 as a single and on the album Diamond Dogs. Cited as his most-covered track, it was effectively Bowie's farewell to the Glam rock movement that had made him a star....
  " - 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....
  
• "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - Steely Dan
  Steely Dan
  
  Steely Dan is an United States jazz-Rock music band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. The band reached a peak of popularity in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock and roll, funk, rhythm and blues, and Pop music....
  
• "Rock'n'Roll Winter" - Wizzard
  Wizzard
  
  Wizzard were a Birmingham-based musical ensemble formed by Roy Wood, former member of The Move and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits states, "Wizzard was Roy Wood just as much as Wings were Paul McCartney."...
  
• "Rock On" - David Essex
  David Essex
  
  David Essex Order of the British Empire is an England actor and singer, who has enjoyed a varied show business career....
  
• "Rock The Boat" - Hues Corporation
  Hues Corporation
  
  The Hues Corporation was a Pop music and soul trio formed at Santa Monica, California California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 hit record, "Rock the Boat "....
  
• "Ride 'Em Cowboy" - Paul Davis
  Paul Davis (singer)
  
  Paul Davis was an United States singer, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul music, country music and pop music, and he wrote many memorable country music hits....
  
• "Sad Sweet Dreamer
  Sad Sweet Dreamer
  
  "Sad Sweet Dreamer" was a UK number one single for one week in October 1974 for Sweet Sensation .The second single from the British soul group , a soaring soul ballad heavily influenced by the The Stylistics, and led by lead vocalist Marcel King's falsetto, "Sad Sweet Dreamer" became their first hit....
   - Sweet Sensation (band)
  Sweet Sensation (band)
  
  Sweet Sensation was an eight piece United Kingdom soul music group who had some success between 1974 and 1977. Cast very much in the then-popular mould of the Philadelphia soul sound, they broke through in 1974 following an appearance on a United Kingdom television program talent show, New Faces....
  
• "Seasons in the Sun
  Seasons in the Sun
  
  "Seasons in the Sun" is the English language translation of the song "Le Moribond" by Belgian singer Jacques Brel. It was made famous as a worldwide hit song for Terry Jacks in 1974, and again as a hit single for Westlife in late 1999 / early 2000....
  " - Terry Jacks
  Terry Jacks
  
  Terry Jacks is a Canada singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist....
  
• "Shang-A-Lang" - Bay City Rollers
  Bay City Rollers
  
  The Bay City Rollers were a Scotland pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinct styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time....
  
• "The Six Teens" - The Sweet
• "Smokin' in the Boys Room" - Brownsville Station
  Brownsville Station (band)
  
  Brownsville Station was a musical ensemble from Michigan that was popular in the 1970s. One of its earliest hit record was called "Bebop Confidential" with songwriter credits given to band founder Cub Koda....
  
• "Star" - Stealer's Wheel
• "Stop and Smell the Roses
  Stop and Smell the Roses (song)
  
  "Stop and Smell the Roses" is the title of a 1974 song by the United States singer-songwriter Mac Davis. The song was written by Davis and the noted bandleader and trumpeter Doc Severinsen....
  " - Mac Davis
  Mac Davis
  
  Morris Mac Davis, known as Mac Davis , is a country music singer and songwriter originally from Lubbock, Texas, Texas who has enjoyed much pop music Crossover success....
  
• "Streets of London
  Streets of London (song)
  
  "Streets of London" is a song written by Ralph McTell. It was first recorded for McTell's 1969 album Spiral Staircase but was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974....
  " - Ralph McTell
  Ralph McTell
  
  Ralph McTell is an English singer/songwriter and acoustic guitar player who has been an influential figure on the United Kingdom folk scene since the 1960s....
  
• "Sugar Baby Love" - The Rubettes
  The Rubettes
  
  The Rubettes were an England pop music musical band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriter team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s United states pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts....
  
• "Sweet Home Alabama
  Sweet Home Alabama (song)
  
  "Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.Despite controversy, it reached #8 on the US charts in 1974, and was the band's second hit single....
  " - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
  
• "Takin' Care of Business" - 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....
  
• "Teenage Lament '74" - 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...
  
• "Teenage Rampage" - The Sweet
• "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us" - Sparks
  Sparks (band)
  
  Sparks is an American rock music and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron Mael and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson ....
  
• "Tiger Feet" - Mud
  Mud (band)
  
  Mud were an England glam rock musical ensemble, formed in 1968, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet" which was the United Kingdom's best-selling single of 1974....
  
• "Tin Man" - America
  America (band)
  
  America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972....
  
• "Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do) - Bill Amesbury
• "Wall Street Shuffle" - 10cc
  10cc
  
  10cc were an England art rock rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians ? Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme ? who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the ?10cc? name in 1972....
  
• "Waterloo
  Waterloo (album)
  
  Waterloo is Sweden pop group ABBA's second album, originally released in Sweden on March 4, 1974. The title track of the album won ABBA the Eurovision Song Contest 1974....
  " - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" - 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....
  
• "Who Do You Think You Are"- Bo Donaldson& The Haywoods
• "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" - 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....
  
• "(You're) Having My Baby" Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
   & Odia Coates
  Odia Coates
  
  Odia Coates was an United States singer, best known for her work with Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka....
  
• "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" - Barry White
  Barry White
  
  Barry White DBE was an United States record producer and singer-songwriter.A multiple Grammy Award-winner known for his rich basso voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s with the the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring hit soul music, funk, and disco songs....
  
• "School Love" - Barry Blue
  Barry Blue
  
  Barry Blue , is a singer / Record producer / songwriter from the United Kingdom. He is best known for his hit single songs, "Dancin' " , which he co-wrote with Lynsey De Paul, and "Do You Wanna Dance" ....
  
• "Oh Yes! You're Beautiful" - Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  
• "Angel Face" - Glitter Band
• "The Cat Crept In" - Mud
  Mud (band)
  
  Mud were an England glam rock musical ensemble, formed in 1968, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet" which was the United Kingdom's best-selling single of 1974....
  
• "The Wild One" - Suzi Quatro
  Suzi Quatro
  
  Suzi Quatro is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actress....
  
• "Remember Me This Way" - Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter
  
  Paul Francis Gadd is an England glam rock singer and songwriter, better known by his stage name Gary Glitter.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s....
  
• "Jealous Mind" - Alvin Stardust
  Alvin Stardust
  
  Alvin Stardust is an England pop singer and stage actor....
  
• "Heartless
  Heartless
  
  Heartless is a term that means to be without a heart or uncaring. It can also refer to:...
  " - Heart

Published popular music

• "Annie's Song" w.m. John Denver
  John Denver
  
  John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  
• "Happy Days" w.m. Pratt & McClain from the ABC-TV
  American Broadcasting Company
  
  The American Broadcasting Company is an United States television network. Created in 1943 from the former National Broadcasting Company Blue Network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group....
   Series Happy Days
  Happy Days
  
  Happy Days is an Television in the United States television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 in television to 1984 in television on American Broadcasting Company....
  
• "Hasta Manana" w.m. B Andersson, S Anderson, B Ulvaeus
• "I Honestly Love You" w.m. Peter Allen
  Peter Allen
  
  Peter Allen was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, Elkie Brooks, and one, Arthur's Theme, won the Academy Award....
   & Jeff Barry
  Jeff Barry
  
  Jeff Barry is an United States popular music songwriter, singer, and record producer.Barry was born Joel Adelberg in Brooklyn, New York City....
  
• "I Won't Send Roses" w.m. Jerry Herman
  Jerry Herman
  
  Jerry Herman is an United States composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly! , Mame, and La Cage aux Folles....
   from the musical Mack & Mabel
  Mack & Mabel
  
  Mack & Mabel is a musical theatre with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars....
  
• "I've Got The Music In Me"     w.m. Bias Boshell
  Bias Boshell
  
  Tobias "Bias" Boshell is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the founder of folk rock band Trees .He was born in Wye, Kent, was educated at Bedales and the Royal College of Music....
  
• "Midnight At The Oasis"     w.m. David Nichtern
• "Murder On The Orient Express" m. Richard Rodney Bennett
  Richard Rodney Bennett
  
  Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an England composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works....
   from the film Murder on the Orient Express
  Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
  
  Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 in film UK mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet and based on the 1934 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie....
  
• "Freebird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "No Goodbyes" w.m. Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  
  Richard Morton Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, "...
   & Robert B. Sherman
  Robert B. Sherman
  
  Robert Bernard Sherman is an United States songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins , The Jungle Book , The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , The Slipper and the Rose and the them...
   from the musical Over Here
  Over Here
  
  Over Here is a 2-part television miniseries made in 1996 by the BBC chronicling the lives of United States Army Air Corps B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crews on a Royal Air Force Supermarine Spitfire base during World War II....
  
• "Pencil Thin Mustache" w.m. 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....
  
• "Ring Ring" - ABBA
  ABBA
  
  ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
  
• "She" w. Herbert Kretzmer m. Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  
  Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
  
• "Southern Nights" w.m. Allen Toussaint
• "Sundown" w.m. Gordon Lightfoot
  Gordon Lightfoot
  
  Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr., Order of Canada, Order of Ontario is a Canada singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music....
  
• "Sunshine On My Shoulder" w.m. John Denver
  John Denver
  
  John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  , Richard Kniss & Michael Taylor
• "Tap Your Troubles Away" w.m. Jerry Herman
  Jerry Herman
  
  Jerry Herman is an United States composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly! , Mame, and La Cage aux Folles....
   from the musical Mack & Mabel
  Mack & Mabel
  
  Mack & Mabel is a musical theatre with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars....
  
• "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" w.m. Don Reid
  Don Reid (music)
  
  Donald Sidney Reid is lead singer and main songwriter of the legendary United States country music vocal group, The Statler Brothers.In the early 1960s, Reid replaced Joe McDorman at lead vocals as the quartet that would go on to become the Statler Brothers changed their name from the Four Star Quartet to the Kingsmen....
  
• "(You're) Having My Baby" w.m. Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "Gigi L'Amoroso" - 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....
  
• "Anima Mia" - 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....
  
• "Ta Femme" - 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....
  

Classical music

• Anne Boyd
  Anne Boyd
  
  Anne Elizabeth Boyd Order of Australia is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney....
   - Angklung for piano
• 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....
   - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for two amplified pianos and percussion (two players).
• 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. 7 for orchestra and tape
• 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. 8 for woodwind quintet and tape
• Einar Englund - Piano Concerto no. 2
• Nicolas Flagello
  Nicolas Flagello
  
  Nicolas Flagello was an United States composer of classical music.Flagello was born in New York City, into a very musical family. His brother Ezio Flagello was a bass who sang at the Metropolitan Opera....
   - The Passion of Martin Luther King (oratorio)
• Joaquin Homs
  Joaquin Homs
  
  Joaquin Homs , was a Spanish composer.He was born in Barcelona, and studied cello until 1922. Afterwards, he self-educated himself in composition before studying on-and-off from 1931 to 1938 studied composition with Roberto Gerhard....
   - Trio
• 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....
   - San Francisco Polyphony for Orchestra (1973-74)
• Wolfgang Regel - Requiem "à la mémoire de César Geoffray"
• Steve Reich
  Steve Reich
  
  File:Steve Reich2.jpgStephen Michael Reich is an United States composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts ....
   - Music for 18 Musicians
  Music for 18 Musicians
  
  Music for 18 Musicians is a seminal work of musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976 at Town Hall, New York....
  
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
   - String Quartet No.15 in E flat minor, Op.144

Opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

• Robert Ashley
  Robert Ashley
  
  Robert Ashley is a contemporary American composer born March 28, 1930 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronic music and extended techniques....
   - Music with Roots in the Aether

Musical theater

• Candide (Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  ) - Broadway revival
• Cole
  Cole
  
  Cole may refer to:*Cole , an early carmaker*CoLe is a scientific magazine which provides rapid publication of new research results in any area of computing...
   London production opened at the Mermaid Theatre
  Mermaid Theatre
  
  The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre at Puddle Dock, in Blackfriars, London, in the City of London and the first built there since the time of Shakespeare....
   on July 2. Cast included Julia McKenzie
  Julia McKenzie
  
  Julia McKenzie is an England Olivier Award-winning actress and theatre director....
  , Bill Kerr
  Bill Kerr
  
  Bill Kerr is an Australian film and television actor. He was born into a performing arts family in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia....
  , Una Stubbs
  Una Stubbs
  
  Una Stubbs is an England actor and former dancer....
   and Rod McLennan
• Gypsy
  Gypsy: A Musical Fable
  
  Gypsy is a 1959 musical theatre with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy....
   (Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
   and 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....
  ) - Broadway revival
• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  
  Hans Christian Andersen , also known as simply H. C. Andersen ); was a Denmark author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Red Shoes "....
       London production
• Lorelei
  Lorelei
  
  The Loreley is a rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine near Sankt Goarshausen, Germany, which soars some 120 meters above the water line....
       Broadway production
• Mack & Mabel
  Mack & Mabel
  
  Mack & Mabel is a musical theatre with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand , who became one of his biggest stars....
       Broadway production
• The Magic Show
  The Magic Show
  
  The Magic Show is a musical theatre in one act composed and with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall . It starred magician Doug Henning....
       off-Broadway production
• Over Here!
  Over Here!
  
  Over Here! is a Musical theater with a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and book by Will Holt. The show was directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, with scenic design by Douglas W....
       Broadway production
• West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
   (Bernstein) - London revival

Musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

• Huckleberry Finn
  Huckleberry Finn (1974 film)
  
  Huckleberry Finn is the 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's American classic boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn....
  
• Lost in the Stars
  Lost in the Stars
  
  Lost in the Stars is a 1949 musical theater with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton ....
  
• Mame
  Mame (film)
  
  Mame is a 1974 United States musical film based on the Mame, and starring Lucille Ball....
  
• Phantom of the Paradise
  Phantom of the Paradise
  
  Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 in film horror film-thriller film-comedy film musical film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted mixture of Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust....
  
• That's Entertainment!
  That's Entertainment!
  
  That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!....
  
• Son of Dracula
  Son of Dracula (1974 film)
  
  Son of Dracula is a musical comedy film released in 1974 by Apple Films, starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr. It is also the title of a Harry Nilsson album released in conjunction with the film....
  

Births

• January 10 - Jemaine Clement
  Jemaine Clement
  
  Jemaine Clement is a musician, actor, director, producer, comedian and writer, best known for being half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie....
   bassist, guitarist, pianist, singer Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  
  Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as "Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo", the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars....
  
• February 11 - D'Angelo
  D'Angelo
  
  Michael D'Angelo Archer , better known by his stage name D'Angelo, is a Grammy Award winning United Statessoul music singing, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer....
  , singer, producer
• February 13 - Robbie Williams
  Robbie Williams
  
  Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
  , singer
• February 23 - Jaime Villarreal
  Jaime Villarreal
  
  Jaime Villarreal Romano , is a M?xico rock and roll musician.His style has been influenced mostly by British rock groups from the 80?s. Among his influences you can find bands like: The Cure, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus , U2, Soda Stereo, Miguel Mateos, Caifanes and Fobia....
  , rock musician
• April 14 - Da Brat
  Da Brat
  
  Shawntae Harris , better known by her stage name Da Brat is an United States of America List of female rappers...
  , rapper
• April 17 - Victoria Beckham
  Victoria Beckham
  
  Victoria Caroline Beckham is an England singer, dancer, fashion designer, author, businesswoman, actress and Model .During her rise to fame with 1990s pop group the Spice Girls, she was dubbed Posh Spice, a nickname first coined by a United Kingdom pop music magazine....
  , singer
• April 18 - Millie Corretjer
  Millie Corretjer
  
  Milagros Ninnete Corretjer Maldonado, known as, Millie Corretjer is a Puerto Rico singer and actress. She is married to boxer Oscar De La Hoya....
  , singer and actress
• April 20 - Tina Cousins
  Tina Cousins
  
  Tina Cousins is an English people singer-songwriter and former fashion model. She has placed five single in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, both as a solo musician, and in collaboration with other artists....
  , singer
• May 16 - Laura Pausini
  Laura Pausini
  
  Laura Pausini is an Italian language pop music singer, popular in several European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries, famed for her powerful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs....
  , singer
• May 17 - Andrea Corr
  Andrea Corr
  
  Andrea Jane Corr is an Irish singer, and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the frontwoman of the Celtic music folk rock and pop rock band , The Corrs, which consists of herself and her three siblings, Caroline Corr, Sharon Corr and Jim Corr....
  , singer The Corrs
  The Corrs
  
  The Corrs are a Celtic music folk rock band from Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea Corr ; Sharon Corr ; Caroline Corr ; and Jim Corr ....
  
• May 18 - Chantal Kreviazuk
  Chantal Kreviazuk
  
  Chantal Kreviazuk is a Canada singer-songwriter of the adult contemporary music genre. She is also a classically trained pianist, and can play the guitar....
  , singer-songwriter
• May 23 - Jewel
  Jewel (singer)
  
  Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide, and almost twenty million in the United States alone....
  , singer
• May 30 - Cee-Lo Green, singer
• June 1 - Alanis Morissette
  Alanis Morissette
  
  Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canada singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She has won eleven Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold over 60 million albums worldwide....
  , singer-songwriter
• July 9 - Nikola Sarcevic
  Nikola Sarcevic
  
  Nikola Sarcevic is the bass guitarist, singer, and primary songwriter in the Skate punk band Millencolin. He lives in Gothenburg, Sweden with his wife Lisa....
  , singer and bassist Millencolin
  Millencolin
  
  Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October of 1992 by Erik Ohlsson, Mathias F?rm and Nikola Sarcevic in ?rebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band....
  
• July 11 - Lil' Kim
  Lil' Kim
  
  Kimberly Denise Jones , better known by her stage name Lil' Kim, is a Grammy Award winning, American multi-platinum rapper and singer. Her 2005 album, The Naked Truth , was awarded the 5 mics award from The Source magazine, making it the first album by any female rapper to achieve that rating....
  , rapper
• July 12 - Sharon den Adel
  Sharon den Adel
  
  Sharon Janny den Adel is a Dutch soprano/mezzo-soprano, and composer, best known as the lead singer and one of the songwriters in Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation....
  , Dutch singer
• July 13 - Deborah Cox
  Deborah Cox
  
  Deborah Cox is a Canada Contemporary R&B singer-songwriter and actor. Her 1998 song "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart , a record held for nearly eight years....
  , R&B singer
• July 16 - Jeremy Enigk
  Jeremy Enigk
  
  Jeremy Enigk is an United States singer-songwriter and guitarist known for being the front man of the Seattle band Sunny Day Real Estate....
  , singer/songwriter Sunny Day Real Estate
  Sunny Day Real Estate
  
  Sunny Day Real Estate was an Independent music band from Seattle, Washington. While not the first band to be classified as emo, they were instrumental in establishing the genre....
  , The Fire Theft
  The Fire Theft
  
  The Fire Theft is an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington. It was formed in 2001 by vocalist/guitarist Jeremy Enigk, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith, all of whom were previously members of Sunny Day Real Estate....
  
• July 21 - Terry Coldwell
  Terry Coldwell
  
  Terrence Mark "Terry" Coldwell is a member of the popular boy band East 17, a group he formed with Brian Harvey, Tony Mortimer and John Hendy. Today he also occasionally works as a club DJ....
  , East 17
  East 17
  
  For the postcode, see E postal area.East 17 are an England pop music boy band founded in 1992.The group name came from the UK postcodes for Walthamstow, an area of London between the old East End and the Essex commuter belt....
  
• August 8:
• Preta Gil
  Preta Gil
  
  Preta Gil is a Brazilian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Gilberto Gil, a famous musician and former Government minister of Ministry of Culture in Brazil....
  , singer
• Brian Harvey
  Brian Harvey
  
  Brian Lee Harvey is an United Kingdom musician and lead singer of pop band East 17....
  , East 17
  East 17
  
  For the postcode, see E postal area.East 17 are an England pop music boy band founded in 1992.The group name came from the UK postcodes for Walthamstow, an area of London between the old East End and the Essex commuter belt....
  
• August 14 - Ana Matronic
  Ana Matronic
  
  Ana Matronic is the female lead singer for the Scissor Sisters. Her stage name is said to be down to "a deep and abiding love of robots". She has a large tattoo on her right shoulder of bionic circuitry....
  , Scissor Sisters
  Scissor Sisters
  
  The Scissor Sisters is a Grammy Award-nominated United States of America band that formed in 2001. Their style draws from disco, glam rock, pop and the nightclub of New York City....
  
• August 17 - Salem Abraha, singer-songwriter
• August 30 - Aaron Barrett
  Aaron Barrett
  
  Aaron Asher Barrett is an American musician. He is the lead singer, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter for the ska-punk band Reel Big Fish....
  , Reel Big Fish
  Reel Big Fish
  
  Reel Big Fish is an United States ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out ." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the Third wave ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off....
  
• September 19 - Jimmy Fallon
  Jimmy Fallon
  
  James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon, Jr., is an American comedian, actor, musician, and talk show host known for his work on Saturday Night Live....
  , comedian & musician
• October 1 - Keith Duffy, Boyzone
  Boyzone
  
  Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
  
• October 5 - Heather Headley
  Heather Headley
  
  Heather Headley is a Trinidad and Tobago contemporary R&B and soul music singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. She has won one Tony Award and received two Grammy Award nominations....
  , soul singer
• October 18 - Peter Svensson
  Peter Svensson
  
  Anders Peter Svensson is a guitarist with the band , The Cardigans.His role in the group is as a guitarist and composer, but he also plays keyboard instrument, vibraphone, and bass guitar, plus he provides some backing vocals....
  , The Cardigans
  The Cardigans
  
  The Cardigans is a Swedish people band formed in the town of J?nk?ping in 1992. The band's musical style has varied greatly from album to album and encompasses their early Indie rock leanings passing through '60s-inspired Pop music and more band-based Rock music....
  
• November 2 - Nelly
  Nelly
  
  Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr. , better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapping, singing, actor and entrepreneur. He has performed with the rap group St....
  , Rapper
• November 4 - Louise Nurding, singer and former member of Eternal
• December 7 - Nicole Appleton
  Nicole Appleton
  
  Nicole Marie Appleton-Gallagher is a pop singer and a member of All Saints . She was formerly a member of Appleton along with her older sister Natalie Appleton....
  , singer
• December 10 - Meg White
  Meg White
  
  Megan Martha White , is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the Detroit rock music band The White Stripes. The two-person band formed in 1997....
  , The White Stripes
  The White Stripes
  
  The White Stripes is an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White and Meg White .After releasing several singles and three albums within the Music of Detroit#1990s independent music underground music, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock#Revival...
  
• December 24 - Julian Rachlin
  Julian Rachlin
  
  Julian Rachlin is a Lithuanian-born violinist and viola.Rachlin, who is Jewish, is a native of Vilnius. He immigrated in 1978 with his musician parents to Austria....
  , violinist

Deaths

• February 15 - Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Sweden composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes....
  , composer
• March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati
  Alberto Rabagliati
  
  Alberto Rabagliati was an italy singer....
  , Italian singer and actor
• March 28
• Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields
  
  Dorothy Fields was an United States libretto and lyrics.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway theatre musical theaters and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters....
  , lyricist
• Dino Ciani
  Dino Ciani
  
  Dino Ciani was an Italian pianist.Ciani was born in Fiume and studied piano with Marta del Vecchio in Genoa. He got his diploma at the Conservatory in Rome at the young age of 14 and later in 1958-1962 he attended the advanced courses of Alfred Cortot, the pianist he admired the most, in Paris, Lausanne and Siena....
  , pianist
• Arthur Crudup
  Arthur Crudup
  
  Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was a delta blues singer and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for songwriter songs later cover version by Elvis Presley , such as "That's All Right " , "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine."...
  , singer, aged 68
• April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi
  Giovanni D'Anzi
  
  Giovanni D'Anzi was an Italian songwriter.D'Anzi was born in Milan. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of "O mia bela Madonina" , a song dedicated to his hometown which soon became very popular and a sort of unofficial city anthem....
  , Italian songwriter
• April 17 - Blossom Seeley
  Blossom Seeley
  
  Blossom Seeley was a singer and entertainer.Seeley was born Minnie Guyer, in San Francisco, California, USA. She made a series of solo records in the 1920s....
  , US singer and vaudeville
  Vaudeville
  
  Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
   entertainer
• April 25 - Pamela Courson
  Pamela Courson
  
  Pamela Susan Courson was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, vocalist of The Doors. After the deaths of Morrison and Courson, her parents petitioned an out-of-state court to declare that the couple had a Common-law marriage....
  , 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....
  's widow, heroin overdose
• May - Paul Gonsalves
  Paul Gonsalves
  
  Paul Gonsalves, was an American jazz saxophone.Gonsalves made his name at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival with an arresting, 27-chorus solo in the middle of Duke Ellington's performance of "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" ....
  , jazz saxophonist
• May 24 - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• June 8 - Rodolfo Lipizer
  Rodolfo Lipizer
  
  Rodolfo Lipizer , was an Italian violinist, professor of music, and orchestra conductor.The International Violin Competition ?Rodolfo Lipizer Prize? is named in his honour....
  , violinist and conductor
• June 22 - Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
  , composer
• June 27 - Cliff Friend
  Cliff Friend
  
  Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series....
  , US composer
• July 29 - "Mama" Cass Elliott, singer The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas
  
  The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and ten hit singles....
  
• August 6 - Gene Ammons
  Gene Ammons
  
  Eugene "Jug" Ammons was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons.Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in 1943, at the age of 18....
  
• September 3 - Harry Partch
  Harry Partch
  
  File:Harry Partch Institute-6.jpgHarry Partch was an United Statesn composer and musical instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonality scale s, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation....
  , composer
• September 23 - Robbie McIntosh
  Robbie McIntosh (drummer)
  
  Robbie McIntosh was a drummer from Dundee, Scotland who was a founder-member of the Average White Band.Before going on to help found AWB in 1971-72, McIntosh had been a member of the late-1960s band The Senate , with Alex Ligertwood and then with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, appearing on the band's early albums, Oblivion Express , '...
  , drummer Average White Band
• October 24 - David Oistrakh
  David Oistrakh
  
  David Fyodorovich Oistrakh , David Fiodorovic Ojstrah; – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works....
  , violinist
• November 11 - Alfonso Leng
  Alfonso Leng
  
  Alfonso Leng was a post-romantic composer of European classical music and dentist. He was born in Santiago, Chile, Chile. He wrote the first important symphony work in Chilean tradition, "La Muerte de Alcino", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel from Pedro Prado....
  , composer
• November 19 - George Brunies
  George Brunies
  
  George Brunies, aka Georg Brunis, was a well-known early jazz trombonist.George Clarence Brunies was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 6, 1902 into a very musical family....
  , jazz musician
• November 21 - Frank Martin
  Frank Martin (composer)
  
  Frank Martin was a Switzerland composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands....
  , composer
• November 25 - Nick Drake
  Nick Drake
  
  Nicholas Rodney Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs. His primary instrument was the guitar, though he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, and saxophone....
  , British singer/songwriter, overdose

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1974
  Grammy Awards of 1974
  
  The 16th Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1974, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973....
  

Country Music Association

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
 Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

• Eurovision Song Contest 1974
  Eurovision Song Contest 1974
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the 19th Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom....
  

See also

• 1974