1973 in music

• On January 14, the world's first charity television concert, Elvis Presley , was broadcast in Honolulu , which was broadcast via satellite to 40 countries in Asia and Europe . The audience of television screens amounted to ~ 1.3 billion people. Aloha From Hawaii concert was watched by more people in the world than the landing of Americans on the moon . Nobody has beaten this record so far.

• January - American rock band Kiss founded
• April - Alla Pugacheva leaves the jazz orchestra conducted by Oleg Lundstrem and for the second time becomes the soloist of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic Society at the Rosconcert .
• On May 19–20, the First Regional Competition of Tourist Song Performers was held in Miass of the Chelyabinsk Region , which later became the Ilmen Festival .
• From May to July, Led Zeppelin conducted their ninth North American tour, which was qualitatively different from previous concert activities in the field of rock music. A large number of lighting and pyrotechnic equipment was introduced at that time, as a result of which the concerts turned into a complex show. This event determined the appearance of rock concerts for the next decades.
• Autumn - Alla Pugacheva becomes the soloist of the Moskontsert .
• September 29 - American hard rock band Grand Funk Railroad this year turned from a trio into a quartet, got rid of the last word in its name and recorded the first single, on which the drummer of the group Donald Brewer performed. It brought success: the song “We-re An American Band” took first place in the American charts for a week. In May of next year, their cover version of the song “The Locomotion” led the top for eight weeks. Then the group regained its former name, but such successes no longer achieved.
• December - Australian rock band AC / DC founded

See also the 1973 music album category .

January

• Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ ( Bruce Springsteen , January 5 ) (debut album)

May

• Tubular Bells ( Mike Oldfield , May 25 ) (debut album)

July

• Queen ( Queen , July 13 ) (debut album)

Inaccurate Date

• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ( Elton John )
• A Passion Play ( Jethro Tull )
• Aladdin Sane ( David Bowie )
• Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt 2) ( Gong )
• Body Talk ( George Benson )
• Brain Salad Surgery ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer , LP , Manticore records , November 19)
• Camel ( Camel )
• Chicago VI ( Chicago )
• Cyborg ( Klaus Schulze )
• Dancing on a Cold Wind ( Carmen )
• Mind Games ( John Lennon )
• Faust IV ( Faust )
• Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt 1) ( Gong )
• For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night ( Caravan )
• Future Days ( Can )
• Heartbreaker ( Free )
• Galactic Zoo Dosier ( Arthur Brown )
• Closing Time ( Tom Waits )
• Grand Hotel ( Procol Harum )
• Grinding Stone ( Gary Moore )
• Crossing ( Oregon )
• Dream on Dreamer ( Shocking Blue )
• Hat Trick ( America )
• Head Hunters ( Herbie Hancock )
• Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy ( Return to Forever )
• Houses of the Holy ( Led Zeppelin , LP , Atlantic Records , March 28)
• In a Glass House ( Gentle Giant )
• Innervisions ( Stevie Wonder )
• It's Only a Movie ( Family )
• Larks' Tongues in Aspic ( King Crimson )
• Leg End ( Henry Cow )
• Life In a Tin Can ( Bee Gees )
• Love, Devotion and Surrender ( John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana )
• Maltid ( Samla Mammas Manna )
• Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh ( Magma )
• Mekanik Kommandoh ( Magma )
• Messin ' ( Manfred Mann's Earth Band )
• Mr. Natural ( Bee Gees )
• Nice'n'Greasy ( Atomic Rooster )
• Nostalrock ( Adriano Celentano )
• The Payback ( James Brown )
• Pin Ups ( David Bowie )
• Ralf und Florian ( Kraftwerk )
• Ring! Ring! ( ABBA , LP , Polar Music )
• Rock 'Til Ya Drop ( Suzy Quatro )
• Selling England by the Pound ( Genesis )
• Space Ritual ( Hawkwind )
• Stone Gon ' ( Barry White )
• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ( Black Sabbath )
• Squeeze ( The Velvet Underground )
• Stan Getz & Bill Evans ( Stan Getz and Bill Evans )
• Sweet Freedom ( Uriah Heep )
• Sweetnighter ( Weather Report )
• Tales from Topographic Oceans ( Yes )
• The Back Door Wolf ( Howlin 'Wolf )
• The Dark Side of the Moon ( Pink Floyd )
• The Lost Trident Sessions ( Mahavishnu Orchestra )
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( Rick Wakeman )
• Tyranny and Mutation ( Blue Öyster Cult )
• Welcome ( Carlos Santana )
• WhoDo We Think We Are! ( Deep purple )
• Red Rose Speedway ( Paul McCartney and Wings )
• Band on the Run ( Paul McCartney and Wings )
• Phoenix ( Grand Funk Railroad )
• Were An American Band ( Grand Funk Railroad )
• Don, t Shoot me ( Elton John )
• Loud'n'Proud ( Nazareth )
• Sweet Fanny Adams ( Sweet )
• Slayed? ( Slade )
• Raw Power ( Iggy & The Stooges )

• Living for the City ( Stevie Wonder )
• “Let's Get It On” ( Marvin Gay )
• Dream On ( Aerosmith )
• “Knockin 'on Heaven's Door” ( Bob Dylan )
• “Free Bird” ( Lynyrd Skynyrd )
• Higher Ground ( Stevie Wonder )
• Personality Crisis ( New York Dolls )
• “Candle in the Wind” ( Elton John )
• “That Lady” ( The Isley Brothers )
• “ Killing Me Softly with His Song ” ( Roberta Flack )
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ( Elton John )
• Piano Man ( Billy Joel )
• " Prisencolinensinainciusol " by Adriano Celentano
• Midnight Train to Georgia ( Gladys Knight )
• “I Shot the Sheriff” ( Bob Marley )
• Pressure Drop ( Toots and the Maytals )
• Search and Destroy ( The Stooges )
• Desperado ( The Eagles )

• UK 's best-selling album is Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player ( Elton John ), second place is Aladdin Sane ( David Bowie ), third place is Greatest Hits ( Simon & Garfunkel )
• Top Selling Album in the USA ( Billboard Top 200 ) - “The World Is a Ghetto” ( War )
• US Top Selling Single ( Billboard Hot 100 ) - " Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Ole Oak Tree " ( Dawn featuring Tony Orlando )
• UK 's best-selling single is Love You Love Me Love ( Gary Glitter )

• Grammy for Album of the Year - Stevie Wonder for Innervisions
• Grammy for Record of the Year - Robert Flack for Killing Me Softly with His Song
• “Grammy” for the song of the year - “ Killing Me Softly with His Song ”

Born

• January 21 - Benze Sabolci , Hungarian musicologist, music critic and teacher.
• February 8 - Andrey Knyazev - PrinceZz , King and Jester .
• February 13 - Varg Vikernes is a Norwegian musician , creator and sole participant in the black metal music project Burzum .
• March 19 - Alexander Balunov - King and the Jester .
• April 5 - Farrell Williams ( The Neptunes ).
• April 8 - Alexander Schigolev - King and the Jester .
• August 7 - Mikhail Gorshenyov - King and Jester .
• August 9 - Alexander Ponomarev - Ukrainian pop singer, Golden Voice of Ukraine.

Died

• June 2 - Hidemaro Konoe , Japanese conductor and composer.
• September 21 - Lidia Ruslanova
• December 20 - Bobby Darin