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• January 1 - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
   headline the gala opening of the London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   music club, The Roxy
  The Roxy
  
  The Roxy was a fashionable nightclub on Neal Street in London's Covent Garden, known for hosting the flowering British punk music scene in its infancy....
  .
• January 12 - Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards
  Keith Richards
  
  Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
   is fined 750 pounds for possession of cocaine
  Cocaine
  
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
   which was found in his wrecked car on May 19, 1976. Richards was charged an additional 250 pounds for court costs and found "not guilty" of possession of LSD
  LSD
  
  Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, LSD-25, or acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family. Its unusual psychological effects, which include visuals of colored patterns behind the eyes in the mind, a sense of time distorting, and crawling geometric patterns, have made it one of the most widely known psyched...
  .
• January 26
• 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 ....
   falls off the stage while opening for Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.After years of local Detroit-area success, recording and performing in the mid-1960s, Seger achieved superstar status by the mid-1970s and continuing through the 1980s with the Silver Bullet Band....
   in Tampa, Florida
  Tampa, Florida
  
  Tampa is a United States city in Hillsborough County, Florida, on the west coast of the state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County....
  . Smith is rushed to the hospital for 22 stitches to close head lacerations. While recovering, Smith writes her fifth book of poetry, Babel.
• 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....
  's original lead guitarist, Peter Green
  Peter Green (musician)
  
  Peter Green is a United Kingdom blues-rock guitarist and founder of the band Fleetwood Mac.A figurehead in the British blues movement, Green inspired B....
  , is committed to a mental hospital in England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
   after firing a pistol at a delivery boy bringing him a royalties check
• 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...
   enters rehab for his alcoholism, after ten years of drinking a pack of beer a day.
• January 27 - After releasing only one single for the band, EMI
  EMI
  
  The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
   terminates its contract with the Sex Pistols
  Sex Pistols
  
  The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  .
• February 4 - American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
   celebrates its 25th anniversary on television with a special hosted by Dick Clark
  Dick Clark (entertainer)
  
  Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
  . An "all-star band" made up of Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  , Seals & Crofts, Gregg Allman
  Gregg Allman
  
  Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman , is a rock music and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band....
  , Junior Walker, Johnny Rivers
  Johnny Rivers
  
  Johnny Rivers is an United States rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material....
  , the Pointer Sisters, Charlie Daniels
  Charlie Daniels
  
  Charlie Daniels is an United States musician famous for his contributions to country music and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his Number One country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written....
  , Doc Severinsen
  Doc Severinsen
  
  Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an United States popular music and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson....
  , Les McCann
  Les McCann
  
  Les McCann is a soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul....
  , Donald Byrd
  Donald Byrd
  
  Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
  , Chuck Mangione
  Chuck Mangione
  
  Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good "....
   and three members of Booker T and the MGs perform "Roll Over Beethoven."
• February 14 - The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
   make their debut at a party in Athens, Georgia
  Athens, Georgia
  
  Athens-Clarke County is a Consolidated city-county in Georgia , United States, in the northeastern part of the state, at the intersection of U.S....
  
• February 15 - Sid Vicious
  Sid Vicious
  
  Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
   replaces Glen Matlock
  Glen Matlock
  
  Glen Matlock is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer John Lydon came up with the lyrics....
   as the bassist for the Sex Pistols.
• February 27 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police raid Keith Richards
  Keith Richards
  
  Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
  ' Toronto
  Toronto
  
  Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
   hotel suite while he is sleeping and seize 22 grams of heroin
  Heroin
  
  Heroin is a opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-acetate ester of morphine . The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin Freebase may also appear as a white powder....
  , 5 grams of cocaine
  Cocaine
  
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine....
   and narcotics paraphernalia. Richards is arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic, and possession of cocaine. He is released on $25,000 bail
• March 1 - Sara Lowndes Dylan
  Sara Dylan
  
  Sara Dylan , born as Shirley Marlin Noznisky and later known as Sara Lownds, was the first wife of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. She was married to Bob Dylan from November 1965 until June 1977....
   files for divorce from her husband of 11 years, Bob Dylan.
• March 10 - A&M Records
  A&M Records
  
  A&M Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division....
   signs the Sex Pistols in a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace
  Buckingham Palace
  
  Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal entertaining, and a major tourist attraction....
  . The contract is terminated on March 16.
• April 22 - 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....
   opened the North American leg of their "Animals" tour in Miami, Florida
  Miami, Florida
  
  Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
  
• April 24 - Several artists including Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  , Santana
  Carlos Santana
  
  Carlos Augusto Santana Alves is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American Rock music musician and guitarist. He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana , which created a highly successful blend of rock music, salsa music, and jazz fusion....
   and others perform at a free concert for the inmates of California
  California
  
  California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  's Soledad Prison.
• April 25 - During a concert at the Saginaw, Michigan
  Saginaw, Michigan
  
  Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County, Michigan. Once two independent cities, the consolidated City of Saginaw was once a thriving lumber town and manufacturing center that in recent years has suffered from population decline, job losses, and increased crime rates....
   Civic Center, 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"....
   makes what would turn out to be the last recordings he would ever make. Three songs recorded at the show would later appear (with overdubs), on the posthumously released album, Moody Blue.
• April 26 - 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....
  's disco Studio 54
  Studio 54
  
  Studio 54 is a New York City Broadway theater and former discoth?que located at 254 West 54th Street in Manhattan. The disco opened on April 26, 1977 and closed in March 1986 and briefly reopened in 1994 after a multi-million dollar renovation....
   opens.
• June - Founding of the Nikikai Opera Foundation.
• May 11 - 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....
   and support band London
  London (band)
  
  This article is about the English band London. For the American band with the same name, see London . London were a four piece punk band formed in London in 1976 and were best known for their wild stage act....
   start a 10 week national UK tour.
• June 12 - The Supremes
  The Supremes
  
  The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
   performed for the last time together at Drury Lane
  Drury Lane
  
  Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. The northern part is in the borough of London Borough of Camden and the southern part in the City of Westminster....
   Theatre in London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
   and officially disbanded.
• July 24 - Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
   perform in Oakland at their last ever concert in the United States.
• August 16 - 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"....
   is found dead at his home Graceland
  Graceland
  
  Graceland is the name of the estate and large white-columned mansion, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
   in Memphis, Tennessee.
• August 17 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland
  Graceland
  
  Graceland is the name of the estate and large white-columned mansion, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee....
   for the funeral of 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"....
   had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.
• September 16 - T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan
  Marc Bolan
  
  Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
   is killed in an automobile accident.
• October 20 - A plane carrying 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....
   crashes in Mississippi, killing songwriter & vocalist Ronnie Van Zant
  Ronnie Van Zant
  
  Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
  , guitarist Steve Gaines
  Steve Gaines
  
  Steven Earl Gaines was an United States musician. He is most well-known as a guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
   and background vocalist Cassie Gaines
  Cassie Gaines
  
  Cassie LaRue Gaines was an United States singer. She was a member of female gospel music vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
  .
• December 14 Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever
  
  Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
   appears in theaters, igniting a new popularity for Disco
  Disco
  
  Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in and was initially popular among African American, gay and Hispanic and Latino Americans communities in the United States in the late 1960s....
   music.
• Luigi Sagrati
  Luigi Sagrati
  
  Luigi Sagrati was an Italian violist.He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia....
   becomes president of the Unione Musicisti di Roma.
• Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  
  Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
   releases his album "Ten Years Of Gold
  Ten Years Of Gold
  
  Ten Years Of Gold is a compilation album by Kenny Rogers issued in 1977....
  " less than 12 months after scoring his first solo hit, following the break up of his pop/country band, The First Edition. The album features the original versions of his recent solo hits and re-recordings of First Edition classics.
• INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
   forms in Sydney
  Sydney
  
  Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
  , 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....
  
• Black Flag
  Black Flag (band)
  
  Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
   forms
• The Kats
  The Kats
  
  The Kats first came to Los Angeles in 1976, from Minneapolis, as theband Skogie . In 1978 they formed The Kats  by adding guitar hero Pete McRae to the band, debuting at the Troubadour's Hoot Night in late September 1978 after sweltering through myriad gigs at The Rock Corporation....
   forms in Hollywood, California
  California
  
  California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
  
• The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
   forms
• Crass
  Crass
  
  Crass were an English punk band, formed in 1977, which promoted anarchism as a political ideology, lifestylism, and as a resistance movement. Crass popularized the seminal anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, and advocated direct action, animal rights, and environmentalism....
   forms
• Def Leppard
  Def Leppard
  
  Def Leppard are an England Rock music band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria , Def Leppard became one of the List of best-selling music artists rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldw...
   forms in Sheffield
  Sheffield
  
  Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. It is so named because of its origins in a field on the River Sheaf that runs through the city....
  , Yorkshire
  Yorkshire
  
  Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
  
• Whitesnake
  Whitesnake
  
  Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
   forms
• X (US) forms
• The Fall forms in Manchester
  Manchester
  
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
  , England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  
• The Meters
  The Meters
  
  The Meters were an United States funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977....
   break up
• Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  
  Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
   is founded
• Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  
  Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
   is founded
• The Cars
  The Cars
  
  The Cars were an American Rock music band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. Members of the band were singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson ....
   sign a contract with Elektra Records
  Elektra Records
  
  Elektra Records is a now-dormant United States record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group....
  
• Devo
  Devo
  
  Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
   signs a contract with Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros.
  
  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  
• Midnight Oil
  Midnight Oil
  
  Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
   sign a contract with CBS Records
  CBS Records
  
  CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 in music to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties distributed by CBS Paramount Television....
  
• The Neville Brothers
  The Neville Brothers
  
  The Neville Brothers, an R&B, Soul music and Jazz group, was formed in 1976 in New Orleans, LA....
   sign a contract with A&M Records
• The Police
  The Police
  
  The Police were an English Power trio Rock music band consisting of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland . The band became globally popular in the late 1970s, playing a style of rock that was influenced by jazz, punk rock and reggae music....
   sign a contract with A&M Records
• 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....
   signs a contract with Warner Bros.
  Warner Bros.
  
  Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
  
• 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....
   releases a new album after a three-year absence
• Luv'
  Luv'
  
  Luv' is a Netherlands pop girl group which scored a string of successful hit records in a large part of Continental Europe and also South Africa and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  , a Dutch girl group, is formed

Albums released

• Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
  Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!
  
  Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! is a funk album by Bootsy Collins, released in 1977. It reached number one on Billboard magazine's Top R&B/Soul albums chart, the first P-Funk release to achieve this goal....
   - Bootsy's Rubber Band
  Bootsy's Rubber Band
  
  Bootsy's Rubber Band was a P-Funk musical ensemble led by pioneering bassist, Bootsy Collins. It also included his sibling, Catfish Collins, Kash Waddy, Joel Johnson, Robert Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and The Horny Horns....
  
• Aja
  Aja (album)
  
  Aja is an album by the rock band Steely Dan. The album was named after the Korean wife of group co-founder Donald Fagen's friend's brother. Originally released in 1977 in music, it became the group's best-selling 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....
  
• The Alice Cooper Show
  The Alice Cooper Show
  
  The Alice Cooper Show is a live concert album by Alice Cooper, released by Warner Bros. in December 1977 in music.It was recorded in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Aladdin Hotel during Alice Cooper's 1977 "King Of The Silver Screen" US summer concert tour....
   - 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...
  
• Alive II
  Alive II
  
  Alive II is a 1977 live album from Kiss . It is the group's eighth album and second live album....
   - 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...
  
• Animals
  Animals (album)
  
  Animals is a concept album by England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 23 January 1977 in the United Kingdom and on 2 February 1977 in the United States....
  - 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....
  
• Anytime…Anywhere
  Anytime…Anywhere
  
  Anytime...Anywhere is a 1977 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....
  
• Bad Reputation
  Bad Reputation
  
  Bad Reputation is the eighth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1977 . As the front cover suggests, most of the tracks feature only three-quarters of the band, with guitarist Brian Robertson only playing on tracks 3 and 6 ....
  - 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...
  
• Barry Manilow Live
  Barry Manilow Live
  
  Barry Manilow Live is the fifth album by the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1977, and it scored quadruple platinum....
  - Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  
  Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  
• Bat out of Hell
  Bat out of Hell
  
  Bat out of Hell is a 1977 album by singer Meat Loaf, songwriter Jim Steinman, and producer Todd Rundgren that became one of the List of best-selling albums worldwide, continuing to sell approximately 200,000 per year....
  - Meat Loaf
  Meat Loaf
  
  Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
  
• Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
  Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
  
  Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted is a 1977 reunion album from The Animals, billed here as The Original Animals....
  - The Animals
  The Animals
  
  The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
  
• The Best of Top of the Pops '77
  The Best of Top of the Pops '77
  
  The Best of Top of the Pops '77 is a 1977 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
• Blowin' Away
  Blowin' Away
  
  Blowin' Away was a 1977 album by Joan Baez, her first after switching from A&M Records to CBS Records. The album veered more toward mainstream pop than any album Baez had recorded up to that point, though many critics at the time pointed out that she seemed not entirely comfortable with her "new sound"....
  - Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  
  Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
  
• Blue Lights in the Basement
  Blue Lights in the Basement
  
  Blue Lights in the Basement is Roberta Flack's sixth album , released in 1977.Track listing...
  - Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack
  
  Roberta Flack is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter and musician who is notable in the areas of jazz, soul music, R&B and folk music....
  
• Boats Against the Current
  Boats Against the Current (album)
  
  Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen. The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald....
  - Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  
  Eric Howard Carmen is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.His greatest success came in the 1970s, first as a member of The Raspberries , then with his solo career, including hits like "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"....
  
• Book of Dreams
  Book of Dreams
  
  Book of Dreams is the tenth album by United States Rock music band Steve Miller Band, released in 1977. It has been certified 3x Platinum in the United States....
  - Steve Miller Band
  Steve Miller Band
  
  Steve Miller Band is an American rock music band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is led by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals....
  
• Broken Blossom
  Broken Blossom
  
  Broken Blossom is the fourth studio album by American singer Bette Midler, her second album release in 1977 and her fifth on the Atlantic Records label....
  - Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  
  Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
• The Boomtown Rats
  The Boomtown Rats (album)
  
  The Boomtown Rats was The Boomtown Rats' first album and included the Rat's first hit single, "Lookin' After No. 1", as well as the subsequent single, "Mary of the 4th Form"....
   - The Boomtown Rats
  The Boomtown Rats
  
  The Boomtown Rats were an Republic of Ireland rock music musical ensemble, that scored a series of United Kingdom hit record between 1977 and 1980, and were led by singing Bob Geldof, who organized the Ethiopian famine relief efforts, Band Aid and Live Aid....
   (debut)
• BTO Live - Japan Tour
  BTO Live - Japan Tour
  
  BTO Live - Japan Tour is an album containing live recordings from a 1976 Bachman-Turner Overdrive Japan tour concert. This album was never released on CD and is a very rare find on vinyl....
   (live) - 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....
  
• Bundle of Joy
  Bundle of Joy (album)
  
  Bundle of Joy is an album recorded in 1977 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released on the Columbia Records label and features performances by Hubbard, Dorothy Ashby, Azar Lawrence and Ernie Watts....
   - Freddie Hubbard
  Freddie Hubbard
  
  Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
  
• Cat Scratch Fever
  Cat Scratch Fever
  
  Cat Scratch Fever is an album by Ted Nugent released in 1977, as well as the name of the album's title song.The song "Home Bound" was covered by the Beastie Boys and Biz Markie as "The Biz vs the Nuge" on the album Check Your Head in 1992....
   - Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an United States hard rock guitarist and vocalist from Detroit, Michigan. He originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes....
  
• Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
  Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
  
  Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 in music album by United States popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett....
   - 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....
  
• Chic
  Chic (album)
  
  Chic is the debut album by American Rhythm and blues band Chic , released on Atlantic Records in 1977. It includes the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance " - originally released on label Buddha Records - and "Everybody Dance " ....
   - Chic
  Chic (band)
  
  Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
  
• Chicago XI
  Chicago XI
  
  Chicago XI is the eleventh album by United States rock music band Chicago and was released in 1977. As the successor to Chicago X, the album marked the end of an era for Chicago in more ways than one....
   - Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  
  Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
  
• The Clash
  The Clash (album)
  
  The Clash is the first album-length recording released by the England punk rock band The Clash. It was released in two different versions, both of which are still in print: the original version in 1977 and the revised U.S....
   - The Clash
  The Clash
  
  The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
  
• Cluster & Eno
  Cluster & Eno
  
  Cluster & Eno is a collaborative album by the Germany electronic music group Cluster and United Kingdom Ambient music musician Brian Eno. The style of this album is a collection of gentle melodies: a mixture of Eno?s ambient sensibilities and Cluster's avant-garde style....
   - Cluster
  Cluster (band)
  
  Cluster is a Germany experimental music musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic music and ambient music....
   & 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....
  
• Come in from the Rain - 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....
  
• Damned, Damned, Damned
  Damned, Damned, Damned
  
  Damned Damned Damned was also a side project by Casey Chaos, that changed its name to The Other DamnedDamned Damned Damned is the debut album by British punk rock band the Damned, released on 18 February 1977....
   - The Damned
  The Damned
  
  The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
  
• Deceptive Bends
  Deceptive Bends
  
  Deceptive Bends is an album released in 1977 by rock band 10cc.The departure of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme in 1976 to form Godley & Creme could have spelled the end for 10cc....
   - 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....
  
• Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
  Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
  
  Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is a 1977 double album by the Folk music/Pop music/Rock music musician Joni Mitchell. It is unusual for its experimental style, expanding even further on the jazz fusion sound of Mitchell's Hejira from the year before....
   - 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....
  
• Draw the Line
  Draw the Line
  
  Draw the Line is the fifth album by United States hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1977.The album was recorded in an abandoned convent near New York City, rented out for that purpose....
   - Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  
  Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
  
• Eddie Money
  Eddie Money (album)
  
  Eddie Money is the self titled debut album by United States musician Eddie Money originally released in 1977. Containing two songs that achieved generous music radio airplay , the album peaked at #37 on the charts, establishing Money as a successful artist....
   - Eddie Money
  Eddie Money
  
  Eddie Money is an United States rock music singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 chart-topper and music recording sales certification albums....
  
• Elvis in Concert (live) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Even in the Quietest Moments
  Even in the Quietest Moments
  
  Even in the Quietest Moments... is the fifth album by progressive rock band Supertramp, released in 1977 in music.The album was recorded mainly at Caribou Ranch Studios in Colorado with overdubs, vocals and mixing completed at The Record Plant in Los Angeles and was Supertramp's first album to use engineer Peter Henderson, with whom the...
   - 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"....
  
• Equal Rights
  Equal Rights (album)
  
  Equal Rights is an album by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1977 ....
   - Peter Tosh
  Peter Tosh
  
  Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement....
  
• Exodus
  Exodus (album)
  
  Exodus is a roots reggae album released by Bob Marley & the Wailers on June 3, 1977 . Much of Exodus was recorded in London, while Bob Marley recuperated from an assassination attempt....
   - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• Expect No Mercy
  Expect No Mercy
  
  Expect No Mercy is the ninth studio album by the Scotland rock band Nazareth , released in 1977 ....
   - 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."...
  
• A Fantasy Love Affair
  A Fantasy Love Affair
  
  A Fantasy Love Affair is the title of the first solo album released by Peter Brown . The album was recorded in 1976 and released in 1977. It charted #9 on Billboard's R&B charts and #11 on the Pop chart....
   - Peter Brown
  Peter Brown
  
  Peter Brown may refer to:...
  
• A Farewell to Kings
  A Farewell to Kings
  
  A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canada rock music band Rush , released in 1977 in music. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Advision Studios in London....
   - 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....
  
• Focus con Proby
  Focus con Proby
  
  Focus Con Proby is Focus ' 7th studio album and was released in January 1978. It featured collaborations with American singer P. J. Proby and guitarist Eef Albers, and featured Philip Catherine and the other three Focus members from previous albums....
   - 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"....
  
• Foreigner
  Foreigner (album)
  
  Foreigner is the self-titled debut studio album by rock and roll band Foreigner , released in 1977....
  - Foreigner
  Foreigner (band)
  
  Foreigner is a Rock music band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald , along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm ....
   (debut)
• Forever for Now
  Forever For Now
  
  Forever for Now is the sixth studio album by Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1977. The album featured a variety of genres including: country and western, Latin, Caribbean, blues, easy listening, and rock....
  - April Wine
• Frampton Comes Alive!
  Frampton Comes Alive!
  
  Frampton Comes Alive! is a live album by Peter Frampton released in 1976, and one of the best-selling live albums in the United States. Following four solo albums with minimal commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist....
  (live) - Peter Frampton
  Peter Frampton
  
  Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  
• Freeways
  Freeways (album)
  
  Freeways is an album by Canada rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, released in 1977. It was the last album that Randy Bachman would be a part of with BTO until the "reunion" in 1983....
  - 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....
  
• Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
  Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
  
  Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome is a funk album by Parliament , released in 1977 .The album is considered to be one of the best in Parliament's oeuvre....
  - 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....
  
• The Grand Illusion
  The Grand Illusion (album)
  
  The Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album by Styx , released in 1977 . It became the band's first Triple Platinum album, and spawned the Top 10 hit "Come Sail Away" and the Top 30 hit "Fooling Yourself "....
  - 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....
  
• Going for the One
  Going for the One
  
  Going for the One is the eighth studio album by United Kingdom progressive rock band Yes . It was released in 1977 after an extended break for solo activity, and is especially notable for marking the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who had departed in 1974 in the aftermath of the Tales from Topographic Oceans tour....
  - 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....
  
• The Golden Greats
  The Golden Greats
  
  The Golden Greats is a greatest hits album by Sweet ....
  - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  
  Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  
• "Heroes" - 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....
  
• I Robot
  I Robot (album)
  
  I Robot is a progressive rock album recorded by The Alan Parsons Project, engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. It was released by Arista Records in 1977 and re-released on Compact Disc in 1984 and 2007....
  - The Alan Parsons Project
  The Alan Parsons Project
  
  The Alan Parsons Project was a United Kingdom progressive rock band active between 1975 and 1990, founded by Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons....
  
• I'm a Man - 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....
  
• I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight
  I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight
  
  I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight is a Neil Diamond album released by Columbia Records in 1977 in music. It includes a solo version of the song "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"....
  - Neil Diamond
  Neil Diamond
  
  Neil Leslie Diamond is an United States of America singer-songwriter.Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters....
  
• I'm in You
  I'm in You
  
  I'm in You is a 1977 album by Peter Frampton. Frampton returned from touring in 1976 to record this album. Stevie Wonder is also featured....
  - Peter Frampton
  Peter Frampton
  
  Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  
• (I'm) Stranded
  (I'm) Stranded
  
  Stranded is the first album by Australian rock music group The Saints ....
  - The Saints
  The Saints (band)
  
  The Saints are an Australian rock band, formed in Brisbane in 1974. They are considered to be one of the first and most influential punk rock groups....
  
• The Idiot
  The Idiot (album)
  
  The Idiot is the debut solo album by American Rock music singer Iggy Pop. It was the first of two Gramophone record released in 1977 which Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie....
  - Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  
  Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  
• It Feels So Good - The Manhattans
  The Manhattans
  
  The Manhattans are a popular R&B vocal group with a string of hit records over three decades, but best known for their million-selling songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and "Shining Star" in 1976 and 1980, respectively....
  
• JT
  JT (album)
  
  JT is singer-songwriter James Taylor's ninth album, and his first album for Columbia Records. Released in 1977, it contains hit singles in "Handy Man" and "Your Smiling Face" and was Taylor's highest charting album since Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon....
  - 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....
  
• Just a Stone's Throw Away - Valerie Carter
  Valerie Carter
  
  Valerie Carter is an United States singer-songwriter. Carter is perhaps best known as a back-up vocalist who has recorded and performed with a number of singers including Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt, Christopher Cross and, most notably, James Taylor....
  
• Just a Story from America - Elliott Murphy
  Elliott Murphy
  
  Elliott James Murphy is an United States Rock singer-songwriter, novelist, Record producer and journalist living in Paris....
  
• L.A.M.F.
  L.A.M.F.
  
  L.A.M.F. is the only studio album by the American band Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, which included such musicians as Walter Lure, Billy Rath, and Johnny Thunders' New York Dolls bandmate Jerry Nolan....
  - The Heartbreakers
  The Heartbreakers
  
  The Heartbreakers, also known as Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, were an American rock & roll band formed in New York in May 1975. The band was part of the first wave of punk rock....
  
• Lace and Whiskey
  Lace and Whiskey
  
  Lace and Whiskey is an album by Alice Cooper, released in May 1977. After many years of portraying the same dark and sinister persona, Alice decided to try something new....
  - 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...
  
• Leave Home
  Leave Home
  
  Leave Home is American punk rock band the Ramones' second album. It features the classic Ramones songs "Pinhead" and "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment." This is the only Ramones album to go through different incarnations on its original release, due to label controversy over the song "Carbona Not Glue."...
  - The Ramones
• Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  
  AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
  
• Lights Out
  Lights Out (UFO album)
  
  Lights Out is a studio album by the British Rock music band UFO , released in May and on October 11, 1977 . In 1994, a CD comprising this album and No Heavy Petting was released by BGO Records....
  - 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....
  
• Little Criminals
  Little Criminals
  
  Little Criminals is a 1977 album from Randy Newman. Like most of Newman's work, the album eschews traditional pop-music themes in favor of musical story-telling, often featuring quirky characters and cynical views....
  - 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....
  
• Little Queen
  Little Queen
  
  Little Queen is the second album released by the band Heart . It was released in May 1977 , and re-released in 2004 with two bonus tracks....
  - Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• Live at Last - Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  
  Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
  
• Live at the El Mocambo
  Live at the El Mocambo
  
  Live at the El Mocambo is the second live album by the Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble April Wine, released in 1977. It was recorded during a performance at Toronto's El Mocambo club when April Wine opened for the Rolling Stones during one of the surprise club appearances for which the Stones are renowned, and during which they recor...
  - April Wine
• Love for Sale
  Love for Sale (Boney M. album)
  
  Love for Sale is the second album by Boney M.. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" , "Belfast", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" and "Still I'm Sad"....
  - Boney M.
• Love Gun
  Love Gun
  
  Love Gun is an album by the United States hard rock band Kiss . It was certified Platinum album on June 30, 1977 when it sold 1,000,000 copies....
  - 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...
  
• Low
  Low (album)
  
  Low is a 1977 album by British musician David Bowie. Widely regarded as one of his most influential releases, Low was the first of the "Berlin Trilogy", a series of collaborations with Brian Eno ....
  - 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....
  
• Lust for Life
  Lust for Life (album)
  
  Lust for Life is a 1977 album by Iggy Pop, his second solo release and his second collaboration with David Bowie, following The Idiot earlier in the year....
  - Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  
  Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
  
• Majida El Roumi - Majida El Roumi
  Majida El Roumi
  
  Majida El Roumi was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon on December 13 1956. She is a Lebanon singer and a soprano who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio el fan on T?l? Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer....
  
• Marlena
  Marlena (album)
  
  Marlena is the seventh studio album released by Germany Schlager group Die flippers. The group's album sales continued to rise with the release of this album....
  - Die Flippers
  Die Flippers
  
  Die Flippers are a Germany Schlager group formed in 1964. They are one of the most successful Schlager groups of all time, and have been constantly recording and releasing new music since their self-titled debut album was released in 1970....
  
• Marquee Moon
  Marquee Moon
  
  Marquee Moon is Television 's 1977 debut album . It was re-released September 23, 2003....
  - Television
  Television (band)
  
  Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an United States rock music band. Although Television never had more than a cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of punk rock....
  
• Message Man
  Message Man
  
  Message Man is the debut album by Eddy Grant. He plays every instrument and sings every voice on this album. The album is significant for its socio-political stance in songs such as 'Race Hate' and 'Cockney Black.' The track, 'Hello Africa', is the highlight of this album with Grant creating a unique genre that remains difficult to catego...
  - Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a United Kingdom reggae musician....
  
• Montreux '77
  Montreux '77
  
  Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan.This is one of four albums that Ella recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, being Ella's second Montreux appearance to be released on record....
  - 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....
  
• Motörhead
  Motörhead (album)
  
  Mot?rhead is the debut album by the Great Britain Heavy metal music band Mot?rhead....
  - Motörhead
  Motörhead
  
  Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
  
• Moody Blue
  Moody Blue
  
  Moody Blue is the title of Elvis Presley's last album to be released in his lifetime. The album was a mixture of live and studio work, and included tracks from Presley's final studio recording sessions in 1976, including "Moody Blue", a previously released hit, and "Way Down," which would become a hit after Presley's death less than a month aft...
  - 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"....
  
• Moonflower
  Moonflower (album)
  
  Moonflower is a 1977 live double album by Santana . The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album....
  - Santana
  Santana (band)
  
  Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....
  
• My Aim Is True
  My Aim Is True
  
  My Aim Is True is the debut album by Elvis Costello.The album was recorded at Pathway Studios in Islington, London, over the course of 1976 during late-night studio sessions, in a total of twenty-four hours....
  - Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  
  Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  
• Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
  Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
  
  Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the first and only studio album recorded by the Sex Pistols, a highly influential and controversial England punk rock band....
  - Sex Pistols
  Sex Pistols
  
  The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
  
• New Boots and Panties!
  New Boots and Panties!
  
  New Boots and Panties!! is a 1977 album by Ian Dury. Despite popular misconception the album is not credited to 'Ian Dury & The Blockheads' as the band was not formed until the Stiff's Live Stiffs tour some months after its recording, and two of the band do not play on the album....
  - Ian Dury
  Ian Dury
  
  Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
  
• News of the World
  News of the World (album)
  
  News of the World is the sixth studio album by England rock band Queen , released in 1977.Containing hit songs "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" and "Spread Your Wings", the album went platinum in the United Kingdom, four times platinum album in the United States and achieved high certifications elsewhere throughout the worl...
  - 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....
  
• Next
  Next (Journey album)
  
  Next is the third album by Journey , and was released in 1977 .Journey continued the formula from 1976's Look into the Future, but this album retains much of Journey's jazz-flavored progressiveness from the first album....
  - 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 ....
  
• Nice to Be Around
  Nice to Be Around (Rosemary Clooney album)
  
  Nice to Be Around was an LP album recorded by Rosemary Clooney for United Artists Records in 1977 in music. It was released by UA as catalog number UAS 30008....
  - Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  
  Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  
• No More Heroes - 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....
  
• Now
  Now (The Tubes album)
  
  Now is the third album released by The Tubes. It was partially produced by John Anthony, producer of Queen and Roxy Music. John Anthony left the project after a drug-induced breakdown, Bill Spooner took over and completed the project with the help of engineer Don Wood....
  - The Tubes
  The Tubes
  
  The Tubes are a San Francisco, California-based Rock music musical ensemble, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope"....
  
• Off the Record
  Off the Record (Sweet album)
  
  Off The Record is a 1977 album by Sweet .Original album track listing released on RCA Records:-# "Fever Of Love"# "Lost Angels"# "Midnight To Daylight"...
  - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  
  Sweet were a popular 1970s United Kingdom glam rock band ....
  
• On Earth as It Is in Heaven
  On Earth As It Is In Heaven
  
  On Earth As It Is In Heaven is the third album by the rock band Angel . This marks the last album with Mickie Jones who was ANGEL's bass player since 1974....
  - Angel
  Angel (band)
  
  Angel are a glam rock and Heavy metal music band from Washington, DC, formed in the mid-70s by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones. They were signed to Casablanca Records, and had the image of dressing in white....
  
• Out of the Blue
  Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)
  
  Out of the Blue is a double album by Electric Light Orchestra, first released in 1977....
  - 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....
  
• Pacific Ocean Blue
  Pacific Ocean Blue
  
  Pacific Ocean Blue is Dennis Wilson's only solo album, released in 1977. After several attempts, starting in 1970, to release his own project, some of which made it to the finished album, Wilson recorded the bulk of Pacific Ocean Blue in the months spanning the fall of 1976 to the following spring....
  - Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Wilson
  
  Dennis Carl Wilson was an United States rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and the drum kit of The Beach Boys. He was a member of the group from its formation until his death in 1983, though in keeping with recording studio practices of the time un credited session musicians would be used....
  
• Parliament Live: P-Funk Earth Tour - 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....
  
• Passage - 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 ....
  
• A Period of Transition
  A Period of Transition
  
  A Period of Transition is an album by Northern Irish singer/songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1977 . It was his first album in two and a half years, largely forgotten or looked over by most casual fans....
  - 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....
  
• Peter Gabriel - 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 ....
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• Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Hyman (album)
  
  Phyllis Hyman is the self-titled solo debut studio album by American Soul music singer-songwriter Phyllis Hyman. It was released by Buddah Records in 1977 ....
  - Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Hyman
  
  Phyllis Linda Hyman was an United States Soul music singer and Tony Award-nominated actress....
  
• Pink Flag
  Pink Flag
  
  Pink Flag is the first album by the band Wire , released in 1977. Upon its release, Robert Christgau called it a "punk suite" and praised its "simultaneous rawness and detachment" and detected a rock-and-roll irony similar to but "much grimmer and more frightening" than the Ramones....
  - Wire
  Wire (band)
  
  Wire are an English rock music band formed in London in October 1976, by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed .c) Despite little attention in the beginning, Wire's first three albums are among the most influential on the postpunk era, cited by Michael Stipe of R.E.M....
  
• Plastic Letters
  Plastic Letters
  
  Plastic Letters is the second studio album by United States New Wave music band Blondie , released in 1977 on Chrysalis Records. It was the second and final Blondie album to be produced by Richard Gottehrer....
  - 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....
  
• Point of Know Return
  Point of Know Return
  
  Point of Know Return is the fifth album by United States rock music band Kansas , released in 1977 in music.The huge success of Kansas's previous effort, Leftoverture, brought a new kind of pressure....
  - 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"....
  
• Prism
  Prism (album)
  
  Prism is the debut album by Canada rock music band Prism , released in 1977 ....
  - Prism
  Prism (band)
  
  Prism is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1976 by Bruce Fairbairn and Jim Vallance. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporates progressive rock and pop rock elements....
  
• Ram Jam
  Ram Jam (album)
  
  Ram Jam is an album released by Ram Jam in 1977 in music. The first track on the album, the music single "Black Betty", is Ram Jam's best known song....
  - Ram Jam
  Ram Jam
  
  Ram Jam was an United States 1970s rock music band, best known for their 1977 Top 20 chart-topper "Black Betty".The band members were Bill Bartlett , Pete Charles , Myke Scavone , and Howie Arthur Blauvelt ....
  
• Quark, Strangeness and Charm
  Quark, Strangeness and Charm
  
  Quark, Strangeness And Charm is a 1977 studio album by Hawkwind. It reached #30 on the UK album charts.This is Hawkwind's seventh studio album, hence "The Hawkwind Part 7" title on the inner sleeve....
  - 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....
  
• Rattus Norvegicus
  Rattus Norvegicus (album)
  
  Rattus Norvegicus is the first album by The Stranglers, released in 1977. The band's name was printed as "The Stranglers IV" on the sleeve. The album was originally to be entitled "Dead on Arrival" but was changed at the last minute....
  - 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....
  
• Regeneration
  Regeneration (album)
  
  Regeneration is an album by Roy Orbison released in 1977 that marked the return to Monument Records where Orbison had launched his greatest successes more than fifteen years earlier....
  - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• Rendezvous
  Rendezvous (Sandy Denny album)
  
  Rendezvous is a 1977 album by English folk rock singer Sandy Denny, and was her last release before her death the following year. Featuring a few cover versions and mostly self-written material, her voice was said to be "showing the strain that came from her fondness for drink and drugs", and the album took almost a year to complete....
  - Sandy Denny
  Sandy Denny
  
  Sandy Denny, born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny , was an England singer and songwriter who has been described by Allmusic's Richie Unterberger as "the pre-eminent British folk rock singer"....
  
• Ringo the 4th
  Ringo the 4th
  
  Ringo The 4th is an album by Ringo Starr and was released in 1977.After the commercial failure of Ringo's Rotogravure , Starr decided to shift his formula of using his well-known musician friends to write songs and appear on his albums....
  - 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....
  
• Rocket to Russia
  Rocket to Russia
  
  Rocket to Russia is the third album by American Punk rock group the Ramones, their last with original drummer Tommy Ramone. Released on November 4 1977, the album incorporates surf rock and other influences....
  - The Ramones
• Rockin' All Over the World - 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....
  
• Rumours
  Rumours
  
  Rumours is the thirteenth album by Rock music band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977 in music. It was the second album recorded with this line-up, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album in 1975....
  - 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....
  
• Running On Empty
  Running on Empty (album)
  
  Running on Empty is the fifth album by United States singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, released in 1977 . In addition to tracks recorded on-stage during concerts, it also contains songs recorded in hotel rooms, on the tour bus, and backstage....
  - 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....
  
• Saw Delight
  Saw Delight
  
  Saw Delight is the ninth Can album, and features two new band members who were ex-members of the band Traffic , with Can's bassist Holger Czukay giving up the bass in favour of experimental effects....
  - 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....
  
• Seconds Out
  Seconds Out
  
  Seconds Out is a live double album by Genesis , released in October 1977. The performances were recorded in Paris in 1976 and 1977 on their tour in support of A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering....
  (live) - 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....
  
• Simple Dreams
  Simple Dreams
  
  Simple Dreams is one of the most successful of Linda Ronstadt's studio albums to date, spending five consecutive weeks at No.1 on the Billboard album chart in late 1977....
  - Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  
  Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
  
• Sin After Sin
  Sin After Sin
  
  Sin After Sin is the third album by the British Heavy metal music group Judas Priest, released in 1977. It was the band's first album released by Columbia Records after terminating their contract with Gull Records....
  - 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....
  
• Slowhand
  Slowhand
  
  Slowhand is an album by Eric Clapton, released in 1977 in music. It contained three of his most popular singles, the bluesy "Cocaine", the ballad "Wonderful Tonight" and the country-flavoured #3 U.S....
  - 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...
  
• Songs from the Wood
  Songs from the Wood
  
  Songs from the Wood is an album by Jethro Tull and is officially considered the first of a trio of folk rock albums despite the fact that folk music elements are present in the work of Jethro Tull both before and after this trilogy....
  - 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....
  
• Songs of Kristofferson
  Songs of Kristofferson
  
  Songs of Kristofferson is a greatest hits compilation album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1977, after he had become more well known as a movie star than as a singer-songwriter....
  - 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"....
  
• Spectres
  Spectres (album)
  
  Spectres is a Hard rock album by Blue ?yster Cult released in November 1977 in music. The album was certified gold in January 1978 and contained the album rock hits "Godzilla", "Death Valley Nights", and "I Love the Night"....
  - Blue Öyster Cult
  Blue Öyster Cult
  
  Blue ?yster Cult is an American rock music band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2009. The group is especially well known for songs including " The Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' for You"....
  
• Spiral
  Spiral (album)
  
  Spiral is a 1977 album by the Greece artist Vangelis. The sleeve design was by Vangelis himself . The recording engineer was Keith Spencer-Allen, assisted by Marlis Duncklau....
  - Vangelis
  Vangelis
  
  Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou , is a Greek composer of electronic music, Progressive music, Ambient music and neoclassicism music, under the artist name Vangelis ....
  
• The Stranger
  The Stranger (album)
  
  The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician Billy Joel, released in 1977 . While his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes, this was his breakthrough album, spending 6 weeks at #2 in the U.S....
  - 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....
  
• Street Survivors
  Street Survivors
  
  Street Survivors is the fifth studio album by Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on October 17, 1977. The LP is the last Skynyrd album ever recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and is the sole Skynyrd studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines....
  - 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....
  
• Streisand Superman
  Streisand Superman
  
  Streisand Superman is an album released in 1977 by United States singer Barbra Streisand.The single "My Heart Belongs to Me" became a hit in 1977, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  - Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  
  Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
  
• Suicide
  Suicide (album)
  
  Suicide is the influential first studio album by United States No Wave band Suicide , released in 1977. It is often cited as the first synth pop album, but is more intense than most albums of the genre....
  - Suicide
  Suicide (band)
  
  Suicide is an American synthpunk music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega and Martin Rev . Like Silver Apples, they are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo....
  
• Taken by Force
  Taken by Force
  
  Taken By Force is the fifth studio album by Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions that was released in 1978. This was the final Scorpions album to feature guitarist Ulrich Jon Roth....
    - 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 "....
  
• Talking Heads: 77
  Talking Heads: 77
  
  Talking Heads: 77 is the debut album by Talking Heads. It peaked at #97 in the Billboard Music Charts Pop Albums chart, and the single "Psycho Killer" made #92....
  - 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....
  
• Tanz Samba mit Mir - Tony Holiday
  Tony Holiday
  
  Tony Holiday was a German people pop singer and songwriter.Knigge began his career initially as a textile businessman and fashion designer. In 1974 he received a record contract with Hans Bertram, who rechristened him "Tony Holiday"....
  
• Tejas
  Tejas (album)
  
  Tejas is the fifth album by United States blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1977 , although in London Records catalogue it was originally marked under 1976....
  - ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  
  ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
  
• Terrapin Station
  Terrapin Station
  
  Terrapin Station is the ninth studio album by the Grateful Dead, and was originally released on July 27, 1977.This album was the first time since Anthem of the Sun that the Grateful Dead used an outside producer....
  - Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
  
• The Album
  The Album
  
  The Album, also known as ABBA - The Album, is the fifth album by Sweden Pop music group ABBA, released in 1977 . It was released in conjunction with ABBA: The Movie....
  - 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....
  
• The Last Gunfighter Ballad
  The Last Gunfighter Ballad
  
  The Last Gunfighter Ballad is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1977 . Highlights include the title track, "Far Side Banks of Jordan" and "That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine", the latter of which features Cash's brother Tommy Cash....
  - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• The Rambler
  The Rambler (album)
  
  The Rambler is an album by United States country music singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1977 . It is a concept album about travel....
  - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• The Second Annual Report
  The Second Annual Report
  
  The Second Annual Report is a landmark release by industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. The album is a combination of live and studio songs....
  - Throbbing Gristle
  Throbbing Gristle
  
  Throbbing Gristle is a United Kingdom industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge , Cosey Fanni Tutti , Peter Christopherson , and Chris Carter ....
  
• The Visitation - Chrome
  Chrome (band)
  
  Chrome was a rock music group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Inspired by mid-70s punk rock and rock groups such as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath, Chrome's music incorporated synthesizers and sampling , and frequently emphasized themes of science fiction and paranoia....
  
• Trans-Europe Express
  Trans-Europe Express (album)
  
  Trans-Europe Express is a 1977 in music album by Germany electronic music band Kraftwerk....
  - 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....
  
• Victim of Romance
  Victim of Romance
  
  Victim of Romance is singer and songwriter Michelle Phillips' first and only solo album, and was released in February 1977 . The record was unsuccessful and Phillips then favored her acting career....
  - Michelle Phillips
  Michelle Phillips
  
  Michelle Phillips is an United States singer, songwriter and actor. She gained fame as a member of the popular 1960s singing group The Mamas & the Papas and is the last surviving original member of the group....
  
• Virgin Killer
  Virgin Killer
  
  Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by the Germany Heavy metal music band Scorpions . It was released in 1976, and was the first album of the band to attract attention outside Europe....
  - 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 "....
  
• Visitors - Automatic Man
• Watercolors
  Watercolors (album)
  
  Watercolors is Pat Metheny's second album, released in 1977....
  - Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  
  Patrick Bruce Metheny is an United States jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects....
  
• Welcome to My World
  Welcome to My World (Elvis Presley album)
  
  Welcome to My World was the title of a compilation album by Elvis Presley that was released by RCA Records in early 1977, just months before Presley's death....
  - 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"....
  
• Works Volume I
  Works Volume I
  
  Works Volume I is a 1977 album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It is a two-disc set divided into four major sections, one each highlighting each band member, and one for combined works....
  - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
  
• Young, Loud and Snotty
  Young, Loud and Snotty
  
  Young Loud and Snotty is the debut studio album of the American punk band Dead Boys. It was recorded and released in 1977 on Sire Records, with Genya Ravan serving as producer....
  - Dead Boys

• "After The Lovin'" w. Richie Adams m. Alan Bernstein
• "Annie" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "Brazzle Dazzle Day" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  
  Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  
• "But The World Goes 'Round" w. Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   m. John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
  . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
  Liza Minnelli
  
  Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
   in the film New York, New York
• "Candle on the Water" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  
  Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  
• "Child In A Universe" w.m. Laura Nyro
  Laura Nyro
  
  Laura Nyro was an United States composer, lyricist, singer and pianist. Her style was a distinctive hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, mixed with elements of jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, show tunes and rock music....
  
• "Come In From The Rain"     w.m. Melissa Manchester & Carole Bayer Sager
  Carole Bayer Sager
  
  Carole Bayer Sager is an United States lyricist, songwriter and singer.Born in New York City, Sager co-wrote her first pop music hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while a student at the Fiorello H....
  
• "Easy Street" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "The Greatest Love of All"     w. Linda Creed m. Michael Masser
• "Happy Endings" w. Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   m. John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
  . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
  Liza Minnelli
  
  Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
  , Larry Kert
  Larry Kert
  
  Larry Kert was an United States actor, singer, and dancer....
   and chorus in the film New York, New York
• "Here You Come Again"     w.m. Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
• "I Don't Need Anything But You" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "It's Not Easy" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn, from the film Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  
  Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  
• "It's The Hard-Knock Life" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "Just the Way You Are" w.m. 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....
  
• "Little Girls" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "The Love Boat
  The Love Boat
  
  The Love Boat is an United States television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1977 in television until 1986 in television....
  theme song" w.m. Norman Gimbel & Paul Williams
  Paul Williams (songwriter)
  
  Paul Hamilton Williams is an United States musician, music composer, songwriter and actor....
  
• "Love Is In The Air"     w.m. George Young & Harry Vanda
• "Maybe" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" w.m. Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
  
• "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" w.m. 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....
  
• "N. Y. C." w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "A New Deal For Christmas" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "New York, New York"     w.m. Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   & John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
  . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
  Liza Minnelli
  
  Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
   in the film New York, New York
• "Nobody Does It Better"     w. Carole Bayer Sager
  Carole Bayer Sager
  
  Carole Bayer Sager is an United States lyricist, songwriter and singer.Born in New York City, Sager co-wrote her first pop music hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while a student at the Fiorello H....
   m. Marvin Hamlisch
  Marvin Hamlisch
  
  Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He with Richard Rodgers are the only two individuals to have been awarded an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama....
  
• "She's Always A Woman" w.m. 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....
  
• "Someone's Waiting for You
  Someone's Waiting for You
  
  Someone's Waiting for You is a song from Walt Disney Productions' 1977 animated musical film film, The Rescuers. It was sung by Shelby Flint and was written and composed by the song-writing team of Carol Connors , Sammy Fain and Ayn Robbins....
  "      w. Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins m. Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain
  
  Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
   from the film The Rescuers
  The Rescuers
  
  The Rescuers is a 1977 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on June 22, 1977. The twenty-third film in the Disney animated features canon, the film is about the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization, headquartered in New York City and shadowing the United Nations, dedicated to helping a...
  
• "Something Was Missing" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "Star Wars-Main Theme" m. John Williams from the Star Wars
  Star Wars
  
  Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
  films
• "Stayin' Alive"     w.m. Barry Gibb
  Barry Gibb
  
  Barry Alan Crompton Gibb Order of the British Empire is a singer, songwriter and producer. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents....
  , Maurice Gibb
  Maurice Gibb
  
  Maurice Ernest Gibb Order of the British Empire was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
   & Robin Gibb
  Robin Gibb
  
  Robin Hugh Gibb Order of the British Empire is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, to English parents, the twin brother of Maurice Gibb , and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
  
• "Thank You For The Music"     w.m. Benny Andersson
  Benny Andersson
  
  G?ran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
   & Björn Ulvaeus
  Björn Ulvaeus
  
  Bj?rn Kristian Ulvaeus, , is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
  
• "There Goes The Ball Game" w. Fred Ebb
  Fred Ebb
  
  Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera....
   m. John Kander
  John Kander
  
  John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
  . Introduced by Liza Minnelli
  Liza Minnelli
  
  Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
   in the film New York, New York
• "Tomorrow"     w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
  , from the musical Annie
• "We'd Like To Thank You, Herbert Hoover" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long" w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
   from the musical Annie
• "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile"     w. Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
  , from the musical Annie

Main article: 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....
.

• Enrique Crespo
  Enrique Crespo
  
  Enrique Crespo is a trombone and founding member of the German Brass ensemble.He studied music and architecture in Montevideo and in Buenos Aires....
   - American Suite No. 1
• 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....
   - Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
• Bengt Hambraeus
  Bengt Hambraeus
  
  Bengt Hambraeus was a Swedish organist, composer and musicologist....
   - Antiphonie: Cathedral Music for Organ
• Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  
  Arvo P?rt , is an Estonian classical composer. P?rt works in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fitting into European-American classical post-modernism rather than so-called world music....
   - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
  
• Toru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
  
• A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
• Water-ways for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two harps and two vibraphones
• Alexander Vustin
  Alexander Vustin
  
  Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin is a Russian composer....
   - In Memory of Boris Klyuzner
• Isang Yun
  Isang Yun
  
  Isang Yun was a Korean-Germany composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was given a political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a Naturalization German citizen, following his abduction and torture in the 60s by the South Korean secret service and having been sentence...
   - Concerto for Flute and Small Orchestra

• Julian Livingston - Twist of Treason
• Thea Musgrave
  Thea Musgrave
  
  Thea Musgrave is a Scottish people-born, United States-based composer of opera and classical music....
   - Mary, Queen of Scots
• Donald Sosin - Esther

• The Act
  The Act
  
  The Act was a popular and critically acclaimed Norwegian rock band in the mid 1980s. They toured extensively and released the album September Field....
       Broadway production
• Annie (Martin Charnin
  Martin Charnin
  
  Martin Charnin is an United States lyricist, writer, and theatre director.Born in New York City, Charnin began his theatrical career as a performer, appearing as one of the Jets in the original production of West Side Story....
   and Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
  ) - Broadway production
• I Love My Wife
  I Love My Wife
  
  I Love My Wife is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Michael Stewart and music by Cy Coleman.A satire of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, it unfolds on Christmas Eve in suburban Trenton, New Jersey, where two married couples who have been close friends since high school find themselves contemplating a m?nage-?-quatre....
       Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  
  The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....
   on April 17 and ran for 857 performances
• I Love My Wife
  I Love My Wife
  
  I Love My Wife is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by Michael Stewart and music by Cy Coleman.A satire of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, it unfolds on Christmas Eve in suburban Trenton, New Jersey, where two married couples who have been close friends since high school find themselves contemplating a m?nage-?-quatre....
  London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre
  Prince of Wales Theatre
  
  The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner....
   on October 6 and ran for 401 performances
• The King and I
  The King and I
  
  The King and I is a musical theatre by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon....
  (Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
   & Hammerstein
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
  ) - Broadway revival
• Privates on Parade
  Privates on Parade
  
  Privates on Parade: A Play with Songs in Two Acts is a 1977 farce by English playwright Peter Nichols....
  London production opened at the Aldwych Theatre
  Aldwych Theatre
  
  The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. The theatre was listed building on 20 July 1971 Its seating capacity is 1,200....
   on February 17 and ran for 208 performances
• Side by Side by Sondheim
  Side By Side By Sondheim
  
  Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical theatre revue featuring the songs of prolific Broadway theatre and film composer Stephen Sondheim. Its title is derived from a tune in Company ....
       Broadway production
• Oliver!
  Oliver!
  
  Oliver! is a United Kingdom Musical theater, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is loosely based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
  (Lionel Bart
  Lionel Bart
  
  Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
  ) - London revival

• A Little Night Music
  A Little Night Music
  
  A Little Night Music is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples, with the music set almost entirely in waltz time....
  
• New York, New York released on June 21 starring Liza Minnelli
  Liza Minnelli
  
  Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
   and Robert De Niro
  Robert De Niro
  
  Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States actor, director and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time....
  
• Pete's Dragon
  Pete's Dragon
  
  Pete's Dragon is a live-action/animated film musical film feature film from Walt Disney Productions. It is a live-action film but its title character, a european dragon named Elliott, is animation....
  
• Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever
  
  Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 in film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discoth?que....
  

• January 1 - Michael Mann, violinist, son of Thomas Mann
• January 21 - Errol Garner, jazz pianist
• January 23 - Dick Burnett
  Dick Burnett (musician)
  
  Richard Burnett was an American folk music songwriter from Kentucky.Burnett was born near Monticello, Kentucky. He was known to play the fiddle and was blind in one eye....
  , folk songwriter, 94
• February 8 - Eivind Groven
  Eivind Groven
  
  Eivind Groven was a Norway microtonal composer and music-theorist. He was from the fylke of Telemark in southern Norway and had his background in the folk music of the area....
  , microtonal composer and music theorist
• February 10 - Grace Williams
  Grace Williams
  
  Grace Mary Williams was a Wales composer....
  , composer
• February 12 - Ernst Mehlich
  Ernst Mehlich
  
  Ernst Mehlich was a German-Brazilian orchestra conductor and composer. In Brazil he was known as Ernesto Mehlich.In January 1927 he became Director of the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, first as Head of the City Musical Department, and from December on as General Music Director....
  , German-Brazilian conductor and composer
• February 26 - Bukka White
  Bukka White
  
  Bukka White was a delta blues guitarist and singer. "Bukka" was not a nickname, but a misspelling of White's Given name by his second record label, ....
  , blues guitarist and singer
• February 28 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, comic actor and singer
• May 22 - Hampton Hawes
  Hampton Hawes
  
  Hampton Hawes was an African American jazz pianist....
  , jazz pianist
• May 30 - Paul Desmond
  Paul Desmond
  
  Paul Desmond , born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophone and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five"....
  , jazz saxophonist
• June 13 - Matthew Garber
  Matthew Garber
  
  Matthew Adam Garber was an English people actor best known for his role as Michael Banks in Walt Disney Pictures Mary Poppins . Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St....
  , former child star of Mary Poppins, 21 (pancreatitis)
• July 26 - Gena Branscombe, composer and conductor
• August 16 - 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"....
  , singer, 42 (Combined Drug Intoxication
  Combined Drug Intoxication
  
  Combined Drug Intoxication or CDI, also known as Multiple Drug Intake , is an Unnatural death cause of human death. While it is sometimes reported as a simple "drug overdose", it is distinct in that it is due to the simultaneous use of multiple drugs, whether the drugs are Prescription drug, Over-the-counter drug, Recreational dru...
  )
• August 19 - Groucho Marx
  Groucho Marx
  
  Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
  , comedian, actor, singer and performer
• September 5 - George Barnes
  George Barnes (musician)
  
  George Barnes was a world-renowned swing music jazz guitarist, who claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years....
  , swing jazz guitarist
• September 13 - Leopold Stokowski
  Leopold Stokowski
  
  Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
  , conductor
• September 16
• Marc Bolan
  Marc Bolan
  
  Marc Bolan , was an England singer, songwriter and guitarist whose hit singles, fashion sensibilities and stage presence with T.Rex in the early 1970s helped cultivate the glam rock era, though he preferred to call his music Cosmic Rock, and made him one of the most recognisable stars in United Kingdom music....
  , singer-songwriter, 29 (car crash)
• Maria Callas
  Maria Callas
  
  Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
  , operatic soprano, 53 (heart attack)
• September 30 - Mary Ford
  Mary Ford
  
  Mary Ford , vocalist and guitarist, was one-half of the popular husband-and-wife musical team, Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits; in 1951 alone, they sold six million records....
  , guitarist and vocalist, 53 (diabetes-related)
• October 13 - Shirley Brickley
  Shirley Brickley
  
  Shirley Brickley was the lead singer of the R&B group the Orlons. Brickley suffered a gunshot wound and died in 1977, at age 32....
  , the Orlons
  The Orlons
  
  The Orlons were an Rhythm and blues musical ensemble from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that formed in 1960....
  , 32 (shot)
• October 14 - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  , singer and actor
• October 20 - Ronnie Van Zant
  Ronnie Van Zant
  
  Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Van Zant was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He was the older brother of 38 Special founder and vocalist Donnie Van Zant and current Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant....
  , Steve Gaines
  Steve Gaines
  
  Steven Earl Gaines was an United States musician. He is most well-known as a guitarist and songwriter for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
  , and Cassie Gaines
  Cassie Gaines
  
  Cassie LaRue Gaines was an United States singer. She was a member of female gospel music vocal trio The Honkettes, who in 1975 became the backup singers for Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
  , members of 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....
   (Plane crash)
• November 5 - Guy Lombardo
  Guy Lombardo
  
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian bandleader and violinist.Forming The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen Lombardo, Lebert Lombardo, and Victor Lombardo and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven."...
  , violinist and bandleader
• November 9 - Panagiotis Kapodistrias, actor, script writer
• November 14 - Richard Addinsell
  Richard Addinsell
  
  Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British people composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight ....
  , Warsaw Concerto composer
• December 5 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  
  Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was perhaps best known for his vitality on stage, where virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting and his famous ability to play a number of instruments simultaneously....
  , jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer
• December 25 - Charlie Chaplin
  Charlie Chaplin
  
  Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  , actor and composer
• December 28 - Sam Brown
  Sam Brown (guitarist)
  
  Sam T. Brown was a jazz guitarist. He was unusual in that he performed in a generally jazz-rock format, while performing in Keith Jarrett's ensembles that sometimes veered close to a free jazz style....
  , jazz guitarist
• December 30 - St. Louis Jimmy Oden
  St. Louis Jimmy Oden
  
  James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden , was an United States blues singer and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, Jimmy Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood....
  , blues singer
• date unknown - Jimmy Cooper
  Jimmy Cooper (musician)
  
  Jimmy Cooper was a hammered dulcimer player from Scotland.Jimmy was born in Coatbridge, Scotland, near Glasgow. He started to play the dulcimer around age twelve, and gained a lot of experience by playing in dance halls and busking in the early 1920s....
  , hammered dulcimer player

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1977
  Grammy Awards of 1977
  
  The 19th Grammy Awards were held on February 19, 1977, and were broadcast live on American television . They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1976....
  

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1977
  Eurovision Song Contest 1977
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1977 was the 22nd edition series, and was held on May 7, 1977 in London. With Angela Rippon as the presenter, the contest was won by Marie Myriam who represented France, with her song L'oiseau et l'enfant....