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Contents
1 Events
2 Bands formed
3 Bands disbanded
4 Albums released
5 Biggest hit singles
6 Other Hit Singles
7 Published popular music
8 Classical music
9 Opera
10 Musical theater
11 Musical films
12 Births
13 Deaths
14 Awards
14.1 Grammy Awards
14.2 Country Music Association Awards
14.3 Eurovision Song Contest
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Events
January - Joni Mitchell releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported by the single "Help Me" reaching the highest moment of commercial success.
February 1 - The Doobie Brothers release their album What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits featuring their signature and hit song "Black Water".
February 8 - KISS releases their self-titled debut album.
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 rock club, 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 Troubadour in Los Angeles, California. Lennon and friend Harry Nilsson have been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and are forced to leave the club.
March 16 - Country music's Grand Ole Opry moves to a new location at the Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee
March 30 - The Ramones play their first concert at the Performance Studio in New York.
April 5 - Van Halen play their first gig on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood at Gazzarri's.
April 6
200,000 music fans attend The California Jam rock festival. Artists performing at the event include Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Eagles.
Swedish group ABBA win the 19th Eurovision Song Contest in The Dome, Brighton, England, with the song "Waterloo", 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.
July 29 - Having performed at two sold-out concerts at the London Palladium, 'Mama' Cass Elliot dies in her sleep after suffering a heart attack in a Mayfair flat in London, aged 32.
August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway.
August 17 Ramones play their first concert at CBGB. The venue would help establish their place at the forefront of punk rock.
December 12- Mick Taylor leaves The Rolling Stones after 6 years
December 31- Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
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.
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.
Daniel Amos forms out of the remnants of Jubal's Last Band.
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.
Robin Zander joins with Tom Petersson, Bun E. Carlos and Rick Nielson and the "real" Cheap Trick band line-up is created.
The original Alice Cooper group breaks up. The band's leader, Vincent Furnier, changes his name to Alice Cooper and goes on to a solo career.
Bands formed
Bad Company
Blondie (originally Angel and the Snake, changed name in 1975)
Cheap Trick
Japan
The Nits
The Ramones
Talking Heads
The Stranglers
Van Halen
Bands disbanded
Jefferson Airplane
The Moody Blues
The Stooges (reform in 2003)
Albums released
Alive & Kicking - The Delfonics
Alvorecer - Clara Nunes
Another Time, Another Place - Bryan Ferry
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Back Home Again - John Denver
Bad Company - Bad Company (debut)
Badfinger - Badfinger
Before the Flood - Bob Dylan & The Band
The Best of Top of the Pops '74 - Top of the Poppers
Big Bad Bo - Bo Diddley
Blue Magic - Blue Magic
Body Heat - Quincy Jones
Breakaway - Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge
Buddha and the Chocolate Box - Cat Stevens
Burn - Deep Purple
Can't Get Enough - Barry White
Caribou - Elton John
The Civil Surface - Egg
The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories - Kevin Ayers
Cop Yer Whack for This - Billy Connolly
Country Life - Roxy Music
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Crime of the Century - Supertramp
Dandruff - Ivor Cutler
Dark Horse - George Harrison
David Essex - David Essex
David Live - David Bowie
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra
Elis & Tom - Elis Regina & Tom Jobim
Ella in London - Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 - Elvis Presley
Elvis: As Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis (live) - Elvis Presley
The End - Nico
Endless Summer - The Beach Boys
Exotic Birds and Fruit - Procol Harum
Fall Into Spring - Rita Coolidge
Faust IV - Faust
Fear - John Cale
Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat
Fine and Mellow - Ella Fitzgerald
Floating World - Jade Warrior
Fly to the Rainbow - Scorpions
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
Free and Easy - Helen Reddy
Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
The Giants - Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown
Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
Good Things Happening - Brotherhood of Man
Good Times - Elvis Presley
Goodbye - Gene Ammons
Goodnight Vienna - Ringo Starr
Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Greatest Hits - Alice Cooper
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind
Hamburger Concerto - Focus
Hard Core Poetry - Tavares
The Heart of Saturday Night - Tom Waits
Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno (solo debut)
Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield
Heroes Are Hard to Find - Fleetwood Mac
Hollies - The Hollies
The Hoople - Mott the Hoople
Hotcakes - Carly Simon
Hotter Than Hell - Kiss
The Human Menagerie - Cockney Rebel (debut)
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - Richard and Linda Thompson
If You Love Me, Let Me Know - Olivia Newton-John
I'm Leaving It All Up to You - Donny and Marie Osmond
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll - The Rolling Stones
It's Too Late to Stop Now - Van Morrison
Jolene - Dolly Parton
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Rick Wakeman
June 1, 1974 - Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico
Just a Boy - Leo Sayer
Kansas - Kansas (debut)
Kimono My House - Sparks
Kiss - Kiss (debut)
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
L'isola di niente - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Live! - April Wine
Live - The Dubliners
Live - Mott the Hoople
Live in London '74 - Bill Haley & His Comets
Live in Japan - The Carpenters
Live Rhymin' - Paul Simon
Living in the 70's - Skyhooks
Lost in a Dream - REO Speedwagon
Loud 'n' Proud - Nazareth
Love Song for Jeffrey - Helen Reddy
The Magic of the Blue - Blue Magic
The Main Event – Live - Frank Sinatra
Manifiesto - Víctor Jara
Man of Miracles - Styx
Manuel - Dalida
Meet the Residents - The Residents (debut)
Miami - James Gang
Mighty Love - The Spinners
Miles of Aisles - Joni Mitchell
Mr. Natural - Bee Gees
Musik Von Harmonia - Harmonia (debut)
Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
Natty Dread - Bob Marley
New and Improved - The Spinners
A Nice Pair - Pink Floyd
The Night the Light Went On (In Long Beach) - Electric Light Orchestra
Nightlife - Thin Lizzy
Nightmares...and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle - The J. Geils Band
1969: The Velvet Underground Live - The Velvet Underground
Not Fragile - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces - If
Now We Are Six - Steeleye Span
Odds & Sods - The Who
Okie - J. J. Cale
Old New Borrowed and Blue - Slade
Olympia 74 - Dalida
On the Beach - Neil Young
On the Border - Eagles
Only Want You For Your Body - Buffalo
Oscar Peterson in Russia - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie - Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie
Oscar Peterson and The Trumpet Kings – Jousts - Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge - Oscar Peterson, Roy Eldridge
Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison - Oscar Peterson, Harry "Sweets" Edison
Perfect Angel - Minnie Riperton
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
Phenonmenon - UFO
Planet Waves - Bob Dylan
The Power and the Glory - Gentle Giant
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Propaganda - Sparks
The Psychomodo - Cockney Rebel
Queen II - Queen
Quo - Status Quo
Radio City - Big Star
Rags to Rufus - Rufus
Rampant - Nazareth
Red - King Crimson
Relayer - Yes
Remember Me This Way - Gary Glitter
Ride 'Em Cowboy - Paul Davis
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Rocka Rolla - Judas Priest
Rock 'n' Roll Animal - Lou Reed
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
Rockin' With Curly Leads - The Shadows
Röda Kapellet - Röda Kapellet
Rollin' - Bay City Rollers
Roxy & Elsewhere - Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Rub It In - Billy "Crash" Craddock
Rufusized - Rufus
Rush - Rush (debut)
Sally Can't Dance - Lou Reed
Satch and Josh - Oscar Peterson, Count Basie
Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Secret Treaties - Blue Öyster Cult
Serenade - Neil Diamond
7-Tease - Donovan
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Sheet Music - 10cc
Shinin' On - Grand Funk Railroad
Silverbird - Leo Sayer (debut)
The Singles: 1969-1973 - The Carpenters
Slade in Flame - Slade
Slapp Happy - Slapp Happy
Smiler - Rod Stewart
Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley - Robert Palmer (solo debut)
Solid - The Groundhogs
Some Nice Things I've Missed - Frank Sinatra
Soon Over Babaluma - Can
Spooky Lady's Sideshow - Kris Kristofferson
Standing on the Verge of Getting It On - Funkadelic
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Starting Over - Raspberries
Stormbringer - Deep Purple
Streetlife Serenade - Billy Joel
Sun Secrets - The Eric Burdon Band
Sweet Fanny Adams - Sweet
A Tapestry of Dreams - Charles Aznavour
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) - Brian Eno
Tasty - Good Rats
There's the Rub - Wishbone Ash
The Three Degrees - The Three Degrees
Toby - The Chi-Lites
Todd - Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Utopia (debut)
Tooth Fang & Claw - Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes
Up for the Down Stroke - Parliament
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Walking Man - James Taylor
Walls and Bridges - John Lennon
War Child - Jethro Tull
Waterloo - ABBA
The Way We Were - Andy Williams
We Had It All - Scott Walker
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers
Where Have I Known You Before - Return to Forever
Windfall - Rick Nelson
Winter in America - Gil Scott-Heron
Winter Light - Oregon
Wish You Were Here - Badfinger
Wonderworld - Uriah Heep
Wrap Around Joy - Carole King
Zuckerzeit - Cluster
Biggest hit singles
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1974.
# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries 1 Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting 1974 UK 1 - Aug 1974, US BB 1 - Nov 1974, Canada 1 - Nov 1974, Holland 1 - Oct 1974, France 1 - Sep 1974, Austria 1 - Dec 1974, Germany 1 - Jan 1975, Éire 1 - Oct 1974, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jul 1975, Switzerland 2 - Nov 1974, South Africa 2 of 1974, Norway 3 - Oct 1974, US BB 5 of 1974, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1974, Sweden 8 - Aug 1998, POP 9 of 1974, Italy 10 of 1975, US CashBox 11 of 1975, Scrobulate 12 of disco, Australia 22 of 1974, Germany 27 of the 1970s, RYM 84 of 1974, OzNet 842 2 Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun 1974 UK 1 - Mar 1974, US BB 1 - Feb 1974, Canada 1 - Nov 1973, France 1 - May 1974, Austria 1 - Apr 1974, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1974, Norway 1 - Apr 1974, Germany 1 - Mar 1974, Éire 1 - Apr 1974, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Nov 1974, Australia Goset 1 - Apr 1974, Australia 5 of 1974, Holland 6 - Mar 1974, South Africa 6 of 1974, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1974, US CashBox 9 of 1974, POP 19 of 1974, Germany 33 of the 1970s, US BB 38 of 1974, RYM 38 of 1973, DDD 65 of 1973 3 ABBA Waterloo 1974 UK 1 - Apr 1974, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1974, Norway 1 - Apr 1974, Germany 1 - May 1974, Éire 1 - Apr 1974, Holland 2 - Apr 1974, Austria 2 - May 1974, Canada 3 - Jun 1974, France 5 - Apr 1974, US BB 6 - Jun 1974, Scrobulate 6 of Swedish, Australia Goset 10 - Jul 1974, South Africa 14 of 1974, POP 23 of 1974, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1974, RYM 33 of 1974, Germany 49 of the 1970s, Italy 51 of 1974, Europe 55 of the 1970s, US CashBox 84 of 1974, OzNet 413, Acclaimed 1016 4 Steve Miller Band The Joker 1974 UK 1 - Aug 1990, US BB 1 - Nov 1973, Holland 1 - Oct 1973, Éire 1 - Sep 1990, Canada 2 - Dec 1973, Norway 2 - Nov 1990, Switzerland 5 - Oct 1990, Austria 6 - Oct 1990, Germany 7 - Jan 1991, Australia Goset 7 - Feb 1974, France 8 - Dec 1973, US CashBox 10 of 1974, Poland 11 - Sep 1990, DDD 13 of 1973, US BB 21 of 1974, POP 33 of 1974, RYM 61 of 1973, Scrobulate 62 of 70s, Virgin 84, TheQ 297, Germany 399 of the 1990s, OzNet 561, Acclaimed 1721 5 George McCrae Rock Your Baby 1974 UK 1 - Jun 1974, US BB 1 - Jun 1974, Holland 1 - Aug 1974, Austria 1 - Oct 1974, Switzerland 1 - Aug 1974, Norway 1 - Sep 1974, Germany 1 - Jan 1975, Canada 2 - Jun 1974, France 4 - Aug 1974, Germany 7 of the 1970s, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1974, Italy 11 of 1974, Australia 20 of 1974, Australia Goset 37 - Aug 1974, RYM 39 of 1974, US CashBox 40 of 1974, Acclaimed 807 Other Hit Singles "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" - The Rolling Stones "After The Goldrush" - Prelude "All Of My Life" - Diana Ross "Already Gone" - Eagles "Always Yours" - Gary Glitter "Amateur Hour" - Sparks "Angel Face" - Glitter Band "Annie's Song" - John Denver "Another Park, Another Sunday" - The Doobie Brothers "Another Saturday Night" - Cat Stevens "Are You Ready to Rock - Wizzard "Banana Rock" - The Wombles "Band on the Run" - Paul McCartney & Wings "The Bangin' Man" - Slade "Beach Baby" - The First Class "Best of My Love" - Eagles "Billy Don't Be a Hero" - Paper Lace "Billy Don't Be a Hero" - Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods "The Bitch Is Back" - Elton John "Black Water" - The Doobie Brothers "Born With a Smile On My Face" - Stephanie de Sykes & Rain "Break the Rules" - Status Quo "The Bump" - Kenny "Bungle in the Jungle" - Jethro Tull "Burn Baby Burn" - Hudson Ford "Candle in the Wind" - Elton John "Can't Get Enough" - Bad Company "The Cat Crept In" - Mud "Cat's in the Cradle" - Harry Chapin "Counting Out Time" - Genesis "Devil Gate Drive" - Suzi Quatro "Diamond Dogs" - David Bowie "Doctor's Orders" - Sunny "Doctor's Orders" - Carol Douglas "Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me" - Elton John "Don't Stay Away Too Long - Peters and Lee "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Stevie Wonder "Down Down" - Status Quo "Emma" - Hot Chocolate "Everyday" - Slade "Everything I Own" - Ken Boothe "Far Far Away" - Slade "Forever" - Roy Wood "Free Man in Paris" - Joni Mitchell "Get Dancin'" - Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes "Go (Before You Break My Heart)" [English version of "Sì" - Gigliola Cinquetti "Going Down the Road" - Roy Wood "Gonna Make You a Star" - David Essex "Guilty" - The Pearls "Hang On In There Baby" - Johnny Bristol "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" - Carly Simon "He's Misstra Know It All" - Stevie Wonder "Help Me" - Joni Mitchell "Homely Girl" - The Chi-Lites "Honey, Honey" - ABBA "Hooked on a Feeling" - Blue Swede "How Come" - Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance "How Long?" - Ace "I Can't Stop" - The Osmonds "I Honestly Love You" - Olivia Newton-John "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" - Genesis "I See a Star" - Mouth & MacNeal "I Shot the Sheriff" - Eric Clapton "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" - Jim Croce "I'm Leaving It All Up to You - Donny and Marie Osmond "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" - The Rolling Stones "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" - The Carpenters "Jarrow Song" - Alan Price "Jealous Mind" - Alvin Stardust "Jet" - Paul McCartney & Wings "Judy Teen" - Cockney Rebel "Juke Box Jive" - The Rubettes "Jungle Boogie" - Kool & the Gang "Junior's Farm" - Paul McCartney & Wings "Killer Queen" - Queen "Kissin' in the Back Row of the Movies" - The Drifters "Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas "Let It Ride" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Let's Put It All Together" - The Stylistics "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" - Reunion "Liverpool Lou" - The Scaffold "The Loco-Motion" - Grand Funk Railroad "Lonely This Christmas" - Mud "Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black" - Mungo Jerry "Long Live Love" - Olivia Newton-John "Long Tall Glasses" - Leo Sayer "The Love I Lost" - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes "Love Me for a Reason" - The Osmonds "Love On A Mountain Top" - Robert Knight "Love's Theme" - Love Unlimited Orchestra "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle" - Electric Light Orchestra "Machine Gun" - Commodores "Magic" - Pilot "The Man Who Sold the World" - Lulu "Midnight at the Oasis" - Maria Muldaur "Mockingbird" - Carly Simon (with James Taylor) "Money" - Pink Floyd "Mr Soft" - Cockney Rebel "Ms Grace" - The Tymes "My Melody of Love" - Bobby Vinton "The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace "Oh Very Young" - Cat Stevens "Oh Yes! You're Beautiful" - Gary Glitter "One Man Band" - Leo Sayer "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" - Raspberries "Queen of Clubs" - KC and the Sunshine Band "Radar Love" - Golden Earring "Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie "Remember" - Bay City Rollers "Remember Me This Way" - Gary Glitter "Remember You're A Womble" - The Wombles "Ride 'Em Cowboy" - Paul Davis "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - Steely Dan "Rock 'n' Roll Winter" - Wizzard "Rock Me Gently" - Andy Kim "Rock On" - David Essex "Rock the Boat" - Hues Corporation "Rock Your Baby" - George McCrae "Rocket" - Mud "Rockin' Roll Baby" - The Stylistics "Sad Sweet Dreamer - Sweet Sensation "School Love" - Barry Blue "Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks "Shang-A-Lang" - Bay City Rollers "She" - Charles Aznavour "The Show Must Go On" - Leo Sayer "The Six Teens" - The Sweet "Smokin' in the Boys Room" - Brownsville Station "Solitaire" - Andy Williams "Star" - Stealers Wheel "Stop and Smell the Roses" - Mac Davis "The Streak" - Ray Stevens "Streets of London" - Ralph McTell "Sugar Baby Love" - The Rubettes "Summer Breeze" - The Isley Brothers "Summerlove Sensation" - Bay City Rollers "Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" - MFSB (with vocals by The Three Degrees) "Takin' Care of Business" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Teenage Lament '74" - Alice Cooper "Teenage Rampage" - The Sweet "Tell Me Something Good" - Rufus "There's A Ghost In My House" - R. Dean Taylor "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" - Sparks "Tiger Feet" - Mud "Tin Man" - America "Touch Too Much" - The Arrows "Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do) - Bill Amesbury "A Walkin' Miracle" - Limmie & The Family Cookin' "The Wall Street Shuffle" - 10cc "Waterloo" - ABBA "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" - John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band "When Will I See You Again" - The Three Degrees "The Wild One" - Suzi Quatro "Who Do You Think You Are" - Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods "A Wombling Merry Christmas" - The Wombles "The Wombling Song" - The Wombles "Y Viva España" - Sylvia "Year of Decision" - The Three Degrees "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive "You Are Everything" - Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye "You Haven't Done Nothin'" - Stevie Wonder "You Little Trustmaker" - The Tymes "(You Keep Me) Hangin' On" - Cliff Richard "You Make Me Feel Brand New" - The Stylistics "(You're) Having My Baby" - Paul Anka & Odia Coates "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" - Barry White Published popular music "Annie's Song" w.m. John Denver "Happy Days" w.m. Pratt & McClain from the ABC-TV Series Happy Days "Hasta Mañana" w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus "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 from the film Murder on the Orient Express "Freebird" - Lynyrd Skynyrd "No Goodbyes" w.m. Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman from the musical Over Here "Pencil Thin Mustache" w.m. Jimmy Buffett "Ring Ring" w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus, Neil Sedaka & Phil Cody "She" w. Herbert Kretzmer m. Charles Aznavour "Southern Nights" w.m. Allen Toussaint "Sundown" w.m. Gordon Lightfoot "Sunshine On My Shoulder" w.m. John Denver, Richard Kniss & Michael Taylor "Tap Your Troubles Away" w.m. Jerry Herman from the musical Mack & Mabel "Waterloo" w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus "We May Never Love Like This Again" w.m. Al Kasha & Joel Hirschorn. From the film The Towering Inferno "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" w.m. Don Reid "(You're) Having My Baby" w.m. Paul Anka "Gigi L'Amoroso" - Dalida "Anima Mia" - Dalida "Ta Femme" - Dalida Classical music Anne Boyd - Angklung for piano George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for two amplified pianos and percussion (two players). Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 7 for orchestra and tape Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 8 for woodwind quintet and tape Einar Englund - Piano Concerto no. 2 Lorenzo Ferrero Ellipse III Ellipse IV (Waldmusik) Nicolas Flagello - The Passion of Martin Luther King (oratorio) Joaquin Homs - Trio György Ligeti - San Francisco Polyphony for orchestra (1973–74) Wolfgang Regel - Requiem "à la mémoire de César Geoffray" Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians Wolfgang Rihm – Dis-Kontur for orchestra Hervorgedunkelt (text: Paul Celan), for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp, vibraphone, cello, organ, and percussion Klavierstück Nr. 4 Siebengestalt, for organ and tam-tam Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 Karlheinz Stockhausen – Inori for one or two soloists and orchestra Opera Robert Ashley - Music with Roots in the Aether Musical theater Candide (Leonard Bernstein) - Broadway revival Cole London production opened at the Mermaid Theatre on July 2. Cast included Julia McKenzie, Bill Kerr, Una Stubbs and Rod McLennan Gypsy (Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim) - 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 January 10 - Jemaine Clement bassist, guitarist, pianist, singer (Flight of the Conchords) January 12 - Melanie Chisholm, British singer (Spice Girls) February 11 - D'Angelo, singer, producer February 13 - Robbie Williams, singer February 23 - Jaime Villarreal, rock musician April 14 - Da Brat, rapper April 17 Victoria Beckham, British singer (Spice Girls) Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth) April 18 - Millie Corretjer, singer and actress April 20 - Tina Cousins, singer May 16 - Laura Pausini, Italian singer May 17 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs) May 18 - Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter May 20 - Mikael Stanne, Swedish musician (Dark Tranquillity) May 23 - Jewel, American singer May 30 - Cee-Lo Green, singer June 1 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer-songwriter July 9 - Nikola Sarcevic, Swedish singer and bassist (Millencolin) July 11 - Lil' Kim, American rapper July 12 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer July 13 - Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer July 16 - Jeremy Enigk, singer/songwriter (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft) July 21 - Terry Coldwell, singer (East 17) August 8 Preta Gil, Brazilian singer Brian Harvey, British singer (East 17) August 13 - Niklas Sundin, Swedish guitarist (Dark Tranquillity) August 14 - Ana Matronic, Scissor Sisters August 17 - Salem Abraha, singer-songwriter August 30 - Aaron Barrett, Reel Big Fish September 19 - Jimmy Fallon, American comedian & musician October 1 - Keith Duffy, Irish singer and actor October 4 - Ramazan Kubat, folk singer and composer October 5 - Heather Headley, soul singer October 18 - Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist (The Cardigans) November 2 - Nelly, Rapper November 4 - Louise Nurding, singer and former member of Eternal December 7 - Nicole Appleton, British singer (All Saints) December 10 - Meg White (The White Stripes) December 24 - Julian Rachlin, Lithuanian-Austrian violinist Deaths February 2 - Jean Absil, organist and composer, 80 February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, composer, 86 March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor, 67 March 28 Dorothy Fields, lyricist, 68 Dino Ciani, pianist, 32 (road accident Arthur Crudup, singer, 68 April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter, 68 April 7 - Pete Wendling, pianist and composer, 85 April 17 - Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville entertainer, 87 April 25 - Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison's widow, 27 (heroin overdose) May 15 - Paul Gonsalves, jazz saxophonist, 53 May 24 - Duke Ellington, jazz musician, and composer, 75 June 8 - Rodolfo Lipizer, violinist and conductor, 79 June 22 - Darius Milhaud, composer, 81 June 27 - Cliff Friend, US composer July 29 - "Mama" Cass Elliott, singer (The Mamas & the Papas), 32 (heart attack) August 6 - Gene Ammons, tenor saxophonist, 49 (cancer) September 3 - Harry Partch, composer, 73 September 23 - Robbie McIntosh, drummer (Average White Band) October 24 - David Oistrakh, violinist, 66 November 8 - Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer, songwriter and pianist November 11 - Alfonso Leng, composer, 80 November 19 - George Brunies, jazz musician, 72 November 21 - Frank Martin, composer, 84 November 25 - Nick Drake, singer/songwriter, 26 (overdose) Awards Grammy Awards Grammy Awards of 1974 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1974
