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1974 in music
See also:
1973 in music,
other events of 1974,
1975 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music'
Events
- February 10 - record producer Phil Spector is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret.
- February 12 - New York's legendary rock club, The Bottom Line , opens in Greenwich Village.
- February 14 - The Captain & Tennille are married in Virginia City, Nevada.
- February 18 - Yes sells out the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, without a bit of advertising for the show.
- February 20 - Cher files for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Sonny Bono.
- March 12 - John Lennon is involved in an altercation with a photographer outside the Troubador club in Los Angeles, California. Lennon and friend Harry Nilsson had been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and were forced to leave the club.
- April 6 - 200,000 music fans attend The California Jam rock festival. Artists performing at the event include Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Eagles.
- April 6 - ABBA win the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, kickstarting their stellar international career.
- April 25 - Pam Morrison , Jim Morrison's widow, is found dead in her Hollywood, California apartment from an apparent heroin overdose.
- August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway.
- Patti Smith releases her debut recording, "Hey Joe", which many consider to be the first punk rock single.
- Lord Shorty's Endless Vibrations is the first soca LP and the first major soca hit worldwide.
- Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis and begins solo career.
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is performed for the first time.
- Rover Thomas claims to have been visited in a dream by a deceased friend near Warmun, Australia and receives the Krill Krill song cycle.
- Dino Martin , singer and son of Dean Martin, is arrested on suspicion of possession and sale of two machine guns.
- Journey signs to Columbia Records.
- Talking Heads forms.
- Japan forms.
- Firefall forms.
- Daniel Amos forms out of the remnants of Jubal's Last Band .
- The Ramones form.
- Twenty years after it was recorded, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets returns to the Billboard Top 40, after it gains renewed popularity from its use in the film American Graffiti and the TV series Happy Days.
Albums released
Top hits on record
Published popular music
Births
Deaths
- February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 28 - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
- March 28 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist
- April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter
- April 17 - Blossom Seeley , US singer and vaudeville entertainer
- April 25 - Pam Morrison , Jim Morrison's widow, heroin overdose
- May 24 - Duke Ellington
- June 22 - Darius Milhaud, composer
- June 27 - Cliff Friend , US composer
- July 29 - "Mama" Cass Elliott, singer The Mamas & the Papas
- September 3 - Harry Partch, composer
- September 23 - Robbie McIntosh , drummer Average White Band
- October 24 - David Oistrakh, violinist
- November 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer
- November 19 - George Brunies, jazz musician
Awards
Washington Post Music Critic Tim Page has described 1974 as being the worst year in pop music.
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