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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'

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular music 5 Classical music 6 Opera 7 Musical theater 8 Musical films 9 Births 10 Deaths 11 Awards 11.1 Grammy Awards 11.2 Country Music Association Awards 11.3 Eurovision Song Contest

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 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, which many consider to be the first punk rock single, "Hey Joe"
• 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

Albums released

• Bad Company - Bad Company
• Endless Summer - Beach Boys
• Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
• David Live - David Bowie
• For Everyman - Jackson Browne
• The Singles 1969-1973 - Carpenters
• 461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
• Burn - Deep Purple
• What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers
• Here Come The Warm Jets - Brian Eno
• Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
• The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
• Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
• Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
• Lady In Autumn - Billie Holiday
• Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat
• Prounounced Leh-Nerd-Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell
• It's Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison
• Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
• Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
• Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield
• The Harder They Come - Original Soundtrack
• Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - Robert Palmer
• Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
• Queen II - Queen
• Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
• Rock And Roll Animal - Lou Reed
• Country Life - Roxy Music
• Todd - Todd Rundgren
• Kimono My House - Sparks
• Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
• Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
• Phaedra- Tangerine Dream
• I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard and Linda Thompson
• Phenonmenon - UFO
• Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe - Barry White
• Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
• On The Beach - Neil Young
• Apostrophe - Frank Zappa

Top hits on record

• "Waterloo" - Abba
• "How Long" - Ace
• "Midnight Rider" - Gregg Allman
• "Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
• "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• "Can't Get Enough" - Bad Company
• "California Saga(EP)" - The Beach Boys
• "Concrete Jungle" - Big Youth
• "Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie
• "Rock And Roll Suicide" - David Bowie
• "Smokin' In The Boys Room" - Brownsville Station
• "Mr.Soft" - Cockney Rebel
• "Machine Gun" - The Commodores
• "China Grove" - The Doobie Brothers
• "Long Train Running" - The Doobie Brothers
• "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas
• "Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies" - The Drifters
• "Already Gone" - The Eagles
• "Beach Baby" - First Class
• "I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe" - Genesis
• "Summer Breeze" - The Isley Brothers
• "Queen Of Clubs" - KC and the Sunshine Band
• "The Bump" - Kenny
• "Jungle Boogie" - Kool and the Gang
• "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" - John Lennon
• "Love's Theme" - Love Unlimited Orchestra
• "The Man Who Sold The World" - Lulu
• "Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "The Love I Lost" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
• "Bad Motor Scooter" - Montrose
• "Tiger Feet" - Mud
• "Midnight At The Oasis" - Maria Muldaur
• "Devil Gate Drive" - Suzi Quatro
• "Killer Queen" - Queen
• "Magic" - Pilot
• "Caroline Says" - Lou Reed
• "It's Only Rock And Roll" - The Rolling Stones
• "Sugar Baby Love" - The Rubettes
• "Samba Pa Ti" - Santana
• "This Town's Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" - Sparks
• "Down Down" - Status Quo
• "Another Saturday Night" - Cat Stevens
• "Oh Very Young" - Cat Stevens
• "Dirty Old Man" - The Three Degrees
• "Phil Spector's Christmas Single" - Various Artists
• "Walk On" - Neil Young

Published popular music

• "Annie's Song" w.m. John Denver
• "Happy Days" w. Norman Gimbel m. Charles Fox from the TV series Happy Days
• "I Honestly Love You" w.m. Peter Allen & Jeff Barry
• "I Won't Send Roses" w.m. Jerry Herman from the musical Mack & Mabel
• "I've Got The Music In Me"     w.m. Bias Boshell
• "Midnight At The Oasis"     w.m. David Nichtern
• "Murder On The Orient Express" m. Richard Rodney Bennett fromthe film Murder On The Orient Express
• "No Goodbyes" w.m. Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman from the musical Over Here
• "She" w. Herbert Kretzmer m. Charles Aznavour
• "Southern Nights" w.m. Allen Toussaint
• "Sunshine On My Shoulder" w.m. John Denver, Richard Kniss & Michael Taylor

Classical music

• Robert Ashley - Music with Roots in the Aether (opera)
• Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Opera

Musical theater

• Candide (Leonard Bernstein) - Broadway revival
•      Broadway revival
• Hans Christian Andersen     London production
• Lorelei     Broadway production
• Mack & Mabel     Broadway production
• The Magic Show     off-Broadway production
• Over Here     Broadway production
• West Side Story (Bernstein) - London revival

Musical films

• Huckleberry Finn
• Lost in the Stars
• Mame
• Phantom of the Paradise
• That's Entertainment
• Son of Dracula

Births

• February 11 - D'Angelo
• February 13 - Robbie Williams
• April 14 - Da Brat
• April 17 - Victoria Beckham
• May 23 - Jewel
• June 1 - Alanis Morissette
• September 19 - Jimmy Fallon, comedian & musician
• October 18 - Peter Svenson, The Cardigans
• November 4 - Louise Nurding,singer and former member of Eternal

Deaths

• February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
• March 28 - Arthur Big Boy Crudup
• March 28 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist
• 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
• July 23 - Martin Gore, composer, singer Depeche Mode
• 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

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1974

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1974

Washington Post Music Critic Tim Page has described 1974 as being the worst year in pop music.

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