January:FRANK MULLEN = American rock singer with Suffocation
2 January:ERIC WHITACRE = American composer
9 January:
LARA FABIAN = Belgian singer
MIA YOUNG aka. MIA X = American rapper
12 January:
ZACK DE LA ROCHA = American musician, poet, rapper and activist, member of Rage Against the Machine
COREY WOODS aka. RAEKWON = American rapper and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan
18 January:DJ QUIK = American rapper and record producer
26 January:KIRK FRANKLIN = American gospel singer
27 January:MARK TROJANOWSKI = American drummer with Sister Hazel
31 January:MINNIE DRIVER = English actress and singer
18 February:RAINE MAIDA = Canadian musician and beat poet
26 February:LINDA BRAVA = Finnish violinist
5 March:JOHN FRUSCIANTE = American guitarist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers
6 March:ALISON MOIRA CLARKSON bka BETTY BOO = English singer, songwriter and pop rap artist
7 March:VLADISLAV ADELKHANOV = Russian classical violinist and writer
9 March:SHANNON LETO = American drummer with 30 Seconds to Mars
17 March:GENE WEEN = American guitarist and vocalist with Ween
18 March:QUEEN LATIFAH = American rapper, singer and actress
24 March:SHARON CORR = Irish musician, member of The Corrs
25 March:TERI MOÏSE = American singer
27 March:
BRENDAN HILL = English drummer with Blues Traveler
MARIAH CAREY = American singer
4 April:SEAN KELLY = Canadian musician
5 April:MIHO HATORI = Japanese singer and songwriter, member of Cibo Matto
10 April:
MIKE MUSHOK = American guitarist with Staind
Q-TIP = American rapper
11 April:DELROY PEARSON = British singer, member of Five Star
12 April:NICK HEXUM = American singer and guitarist
13 April:EDUARDO CAPETILLO = Mexican actor and singer
17 April:REDMAN = American rapper
18 April:GREG EKLUND = American rock drummer with Everclear
19 April:LUIS MIGUEL = Mexican singer
22 April:REGINE VELASQUEZ = Filipino singer, actress, model and record producer
26 April:TIONNE "T-BOZ" WATKINS = American singer and songwriter, member of TLC
4 May:GREGG ALEXANDER = American singer-songwriter, member of New Radicals
9 May:GHOSTFACE KILLAH = American rapper
17 May:JORDAN KNIGHT = American singer, member of New Kids on the Block
19 May:
BILLY HOWERDEL = American guitarist, songwriter and producer, member of A Perfect Circle
ATTRELL CORDES = American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Cordes was the lead vocalist of the hip hop group, P.M. Dawn = [died: 2016]
2 June:B-REAL = American rapper and actor. He is best known for being the lead rapper in the hip hop group Cypress Hill
3 June:PETER TÄGTGREN = Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy
10 June:MIKE DOUGHTY = American singer
13 June:RIVERS CUOMO = American musician best known as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Weezer
15 June:CLAUS NORREEN = Danish musician and record producer, member of Aqua
17 June:SASHA SOKOL = Mexican singer
19 June:
MJ HIBBETT = English singer-songwriter
BRIAN WELCH = American guitarist
22 June:STEVEN PAGE = Canadian singer and songwriter, member of Barenaked Ladies
24 June:GLENN MEDEIROS = American singer
8 July:BECK = American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and multi-instrumentalist
10 July:
GARY LeVOX = American singer
JASON ORANGE = British singer, member of Take That
15 July:CHI CHENG = American musician and poet, best known as the bassist for the American alternative metal band Deftones = [died: 2013]
3 August:ITAMAR GOLAN = Israeli pianist
11 August:ANDY BELL = Welsh musician who plays guitar in the band Ride. He is a songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the band Hurricane #1
19 August:JOSEPH CARTAGENA aka. FAT JOE = American rapper
23 August:RIVER PHOENIX = American actor and singer of Aleka's Attic = [died: 1993]
24 August:KRISTYN ROBYN OSBORN = American country singer, member of SHeDAISY
28 August:SHERRIÉ AUSTIN = Australian actress and singer
30 August:GUANG LIANG = Malaysian singer
31 August:DEBBIE GIBSON = American singer-songwriter
4 September:DAISY DEE = Dutch singer, actress and TV host
5 September:LIAM LYNCH = American musician, film director, songwriter, puppeteer, writer
7 September:CHAD SEXTON = American musician, drummer with 311
8 September:BENNY IBARRA = Mexican singer
10 September:
JEFF MARX = American Broadway composer
MÉNÉLIK = French rapper
14 September:CRAIG MONTOYA = American bassist of Castella and Tri-Polar and former bassist of Everclear
15 September:JUKKA JOKIKOKKO = Finnish musician and studio engineer
19 September:TAKANORI NISHIKAWA aka T.M. REVOLUTION = Japanese singer and actor
23 September:ANI DiFRANCO = American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman
6 October:AMY JO JOHNSON = American actress and singer
15 October:ERIC BENÉT = American singer
21 October:TONY MORTIMER = British singer, member of East 17
24 October:JARKKO MARTIKAINEN = Finnish rock musician
27 October:ADRIAN ERLANDSSON = Swedish drummer
31 October:LINN BERGGREN = Swedish musician, member of Ace of Base
2 November:ELY BUENDIA = Filipino rock lead singer and rhythm guitarist, member of The Eraserheads
7 November:NEIL HANNON = Northern Irish musician, member of The Divine Comedy
9 November:
SUSAN TEDESCHI = American musician and singer
SCARFACE = American rapper
20 November:PHIFE DAWG = American rapper
2 December:TREACH = American rapper, member of Naughty by Nature
6 December:ULF EKBERG = Swedish musician, member of Ace of Base
9 December:KARA DioGUARDI = American songwriter
14 December:BETH ORTON = British singer-songwriter
16 December:BENJAMIN KOWALEWICZ = Canadian musician
18 December:
DMX = American rapper
COWBOY TROY = American singer and rapper
24 December:WILL OLDHAM = American musician
29 December:ALED JONES = Welsh boy soprano, later baritone
date unknown:
SEAGRAM MILLER = American rapper = [died: 1996]
Timeline of Musical Events
3 January:
Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees
Former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.
4 January: The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffer with his Bentley trying to escape a mob outside a pub. The death is later ruled an accident.
7 January: Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighbouring farmers.
14 January: Diana Ross and the Supremes perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.
16 January: John Lennon's London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs"
24 January: James Shep Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway
26 January: Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year", and "Album of the Year." In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
28 January: The newly formed Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience "I'm sorry we just can't get it together".
11 February The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, is premiered in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records.
13 February: Black Sabbath releases debut self-titled LP. It is Friday the 13th.
14 February: The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England. The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City.
17 February: Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London's Royal Albert Hall. She would be back performing concerts within a year.
23 February: Ringo Starr appears on the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
27 February: Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
28 February: Led Zeppelin perform in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, to avoid a threatened lawsuit by Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
4 March: Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida.
6 March: Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lie: The Love and Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
15 March: West German pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka features 5½ hours' daily live performances of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (to September 13).
19 March: David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett.
21 March: In Amsterdam, Dana wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "All Kinds of Everything". She is elected to the European Parliament some 29 years later.
25 March: José José gives a masterful performance of the song "El Triste" at the "Latin Song Festival II", predecessor of the OTI Festival.
26 March: Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1969
2 April: The London Magistrate's Court hears arguments on John Lennon's indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
3 April: Minneapolis nightclub the Depot opens, eventually renamed to First Avenue.
10 April: Paul McCartney publicly announced the break-up of The Beatles.
17 April: Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon.
20 April: Paul McCartney's first solo album, McCartney, is released.
24 April: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon's tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD. Slick is recognized (although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.
4 May: Charles Wuorinen, 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
8 May: The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released.
16 May: Randy Bachman leaves The Guess Who to start up Bachman–Turner Overdrive.
20 May: The Beatles' film Let It Be premières in London and Liverpool. None of the four band members are in attendance at either screening.
23-24 May Grateful Dead make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath, Free, and Jose Feliciano. Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry, whose debut single "In the Summertime" becomes the best-selling hit of the year.
13 June:
"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain.
The Stooges play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival.
4 July: The music countdown show American Top 40 debuts.
17 July: The Guess Who perform at the White House for President Nixon and his guest Prince Charles. At Pat Nixon's request, they do not play their breakthrough hit "American Woman" due to the song's supposed anti-American lyrics.
26 July: Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.
3 August: Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance on the Dick Cavett Show.
26-30 August: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
30 August: The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden.
6 September: During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans at his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States.
18 September: Jimi Hendrix dies from a barbiturate overdose at his London hotel at the age of 27. His last appearance was on September 17 with Eric Burdon & War jamming at Ronnie Scotts Club in London.
4 October: Janis Joplin dies from a heroin overdose at her Los Angeles hotel at the age of 27.
10 October: Newly-independent Fiji adopts God Bless Fiji as its national anthem.
30 October: Jim Morrison of The Doors, found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behaviour during a March 1, 1969 concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labour and a $500 fine.
23 November: The Electric Factory concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania closes its doors.
8 December: John Lennon conducts a lengthy and intensely candid interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses his new solo album and the influence of primal therapy on its creation, as well as his personal traumas dating back to childhood. He also makes many revelations about his time in The Beatles, including his account of the group's breakup.
Also in 1970
Jimmy Buffett begins recording.
Dalida, still unable to cut a UK record deal, leaves Barclay Records for Orlando Records.
Derek Bailey and Evan Parker found Incus Records, specialising in releasing free improvised music and said to be the first independent artist-owned record label.
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is widely considered the first successful full-fledged fusion of rock and roll and jazz, as well as being one Davis's best-known albums.
Published Popular Songs
"An American Trilogy" = medley written & arranged by MICKEY NEWBURY
"Bein' Green" = lyrics & music by JOE RAPOSO, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" = lyrics & music by JOHN C. FOGERTY
"I Love youuuuuu" = lyrics & music by JEFF MOSS, from the TV series Sesame Street
"If Not For You" = lyrics & music by BOB DYLAN
"Kentucky Rain" = lyrics & music by EDDIE RABBITT & DICK HEARD
"The Ladies Who Lunch" = lyrics & music by STEPHEN SONDHEIM. Introduced by ELAINE STRITCH in the musical Company
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" = lyrics & music by JOHN C. FOGERTY
"People in Your Neighborhood" = lyrics & music by JEFF MOSS, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Rubber Duckie" = lyrics & music by JEFF MOSS, from the TV series Sesame Street
"Teach Your Children" = lyrics & music by GRAHAM NASH
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"Who'll Stop The Rain?" = lyrics & music by JOHN C. FOGERTY
"Where Do I Begin" (Love Story) = lyrics by CARL SIGMAN; music by FRANCIS LAI
Classical Music
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
GEORGE CRUMB
Ancient Voices of Children for mezzo-soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano (and toy piano), and percussion (three players)
Black Angels (Images I) for electric string quartet
CHARLES DODGE
Earth's Magnetic Field
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Synchronisms No. 6 for piano and electronic sound
MORTON FELDMAN
Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety; The Viola in My Life 1, 2 and 3
LUC FERRARI
Presque rien No. 1 "Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer"
MILOSLAV KABELÁC
Symphony No. 8 "Antiphonies"
GYÖRGY LIGETI
Continuum
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
La Fauvette des Jardins
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Symphony No. 9
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Mantra for two pianos and live electronics
Opera
HERMAN D. KOPPEL
Macbeth
Musical Theatre
1776
London production
APPLAUSE
(book: Betty Comden & Adolph Green, lyrics: Lee Adams, music: Charles Strouse)
Broadway production
THE BOY FRIEND
(Sandy Wilson)
Broadway revival
CABARET
(Kander and Ebb)
Vienna production
COMPANY
(Stephen Sondheim)
Broadway production
DAMES AT SEA
Broadway revival
GEORGY
Broadway production
GOLDEN BAT
Off-Broadway production opened at the Sheridan Square Playhouse on July 21 and ran for 152 performances
THE GREAT WALTZ
London production
LOOK TO THE LILIES
(Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn)
Broadway production
THE ME NOBODY KNOWS
Broadway production
MINNIE'S BOYS
Broadway production
PURLIE
Broadway production
THE ROTHSCHILDS
(book: Sherman Yellen, lyrics: Sheldon Harnick, music: Jerry Bock)
Broadway production opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on October 19 and ran for 507 performances. Starring Hal Linden, Jill Clayburgh and Paul Hecht.
TWO BY TWO
Broadway production
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