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Births

10 January: JEMAINE CLEMENT = New Zealand bassist, guitarist, pianist, singer, member of Flight of the Conchords
12 January: MELANIE CHISHOLM = British singer and actress, member of Spice Girls
11 February: D'ANGELO = American singer, producer
13 February: ROBBIE WILLIAMS = English singer-songwriter, member of Take That
23 February: JAIME VILLARREAL = Mexican rock musician
14 April: DA BRAT = American rapper
17 April:

VICTORIA BECKHAM = British singer, member of Spice Girls
MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT = Swedish musician, member of Opeth

18 April: MILLIE CORRETJER = Puerto Rican singer and actress
20 April: TINA COUSINS = English singer-songwriter
16 May: LAURA PAUSINI = Italian singer
17 May: ANDREA CORR = Irish singer, member of The Corrs
18 May: CHANTAL KREVIAZUK = Canadian singer-songwriter
20 May: MIKAEL STANNE = Swedish musician, member of Dark Tranquillity
21 May: ADRIANO CINTRA = Brazilian multi-instrumentalist and producer, member of Cansei de Ser Sexy
23 May: JEWEL = American singer
30 May: CEE-LO GREEN = American singer
1 June: ALANIS MORISSETTE = Canadian singer-songwriter
9 July: NIKOLA SARCEVIC = Swedish singer and bassist, member of Millencolin
11 July: LIL' KIM = American rapper
12 July: SHARON DEN ADEL = Dutch singer
13 July: DEBORAH COX = Canadian R&B singer
16 July: JEREMY ENIGK = American singer/songwriter, member of Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft
21 July: TERRY COLDWELL = English singer, member of East 17
23 July: STEFFEN ZIMMER = German born Music Producer and Singer
8 August:

PRETA GIL = Brazilian singer
BRIAN HARVEY = British singer, member of East 17

13 August: NIKLAS SUNDIN = Swedish guitarist, member of Dark Tranquillity
14 August: ANA MATRONIC = American singer, member of Scissor Sisters
17 August: SALEM ABRAHA = Canadian singer-songwriter
30 August: AARON BARRETT = American lead guitarist/singer/main songwriter,member of Reel Big Fish
19 September: JIMMY FALLON = American comedian and musician
1 October: KEITH DUFFY = Irish singer and actor, member of Boyzone
4 October: RAMAZAN KUBAT = Turkish folk singer and composer
5 October: HEATHER HEADLEY = Trinidadian-American soul singer
18 October: PETER SVENSSON = Swedish guitarist, member of The Cardigans
2 November: NELLY = American Rapper
4 November: LOUISE NURDING = English singer, and former member of Eternal
7 December: NICOLE APPLETON = British singer, member of All Saints
8 December: NICK ZINNER = American guitarist and producer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10 December: MEG WHITE = American drummer, member of The White Stripes
24 December: JULIAN RACHLIN = Lithuanian-Austrian violinist

Timeline of Musical Events

3 January: BOB DYLAN and The Band kick off their 40-date concert tour at Chicago Stadium. It's Dylan's first time on the road since 1966.
17 January:

JONI MITCHELL releases her monumental album Court and Spark, supported by the single "Help Me" reaching the highest moment of commercial success.
DINO MARTIN, singer and son of Dean Martin, is arrested on suspicion of possession and sale of two machine guns.

10 February: record producer PHIL SPECTOR is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret.
12 February: New York's rock club, Bottom Line, opens in Greenwich Village. The first headlining act is Dr. John
14 February: The Captain & Tennille are married in Virginia City, Nevada.
16 February: Two years of litigation between Grand Funk and former manager Terry Knight are finally resolved. The band gets the rights to its name but Knight wins a cash settlement.
18 February:

Yes sells out the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, without a bit of advertising for the show.
Kiss releases their self-titled debut album.

19 February: The first American Music Awards are broadcast on ABC, two weeks before the Grammys.
20 February: CHER files for divorce from her husband of 10 years, SONNY BONO
12 March: 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.
16 March: Country music's Grand Ole Opry moves to a new location at the Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee
30 March: The Ramones play their first concert at the Performance Studio in New York.
5 April: Van Halen play their first gig on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood at Gazzarri's.
6 April:

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 wins the 19th Eurovision Song Contest in The Dome, Brighton, England, with the song "Waterloo", kickstarting their stellar international career.

14 April: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, a concert movie filmed during the band's 1972 North American Tour, premieres at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.
16 April: Queen play their first North American concert, opening for Mott the Hoople in Denver, Colorado.
25 April: Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, is found dead in her Hollywood, California apartment from an apparent heroin overdose.
7 May: Led Zeppelin announces their new record label, Swan Song Records, with a lavish party at The Four Seasons Hotel in New York.
25 May: 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.
5 June: PATTI SMITH records "Hey Joe", her debut single which arguably becomes the first punk rock single when released in August.
14 June: DAVID BOWIE launches his Diamond Dogs tour at the Montreal Forum. One year previously Bowie had announced he was retiring from touring as Ziggy Stardust.
4 July: BARRY WHITE marries Love Unlimited lead singer GLODEAN JAMES
20 July: The first Knebworth Concert is held in England, headlined by The Allman Brothers Band
29 July:

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.
NEIL PEART officially joins Rush

7 August: PETER WOLF, lead singer of The J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway.
17 August: Ramones make their CBGB debut. The venue would help establish their place at the forefront of punk rock.
15 September: GARY THAIN of Uriah Heep is electrocuted on stage at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas.
5 October: AC/DC performs its first official show with BON SCOTT as its new lead singer.
18 October: AL GREEN is attacked in the shower by a girlfriend. She scalds his body with a pan of boiling grits and commits suicide a few moments later.
2 November: GEORGE HARRISON launches his "George Harrison & Friends North American Tour" in Vancouver. It's Harrison's first tour since the Beatles North American Tour of 1966.
21 November: WILSON PICKETT is arrested in Andes, New York after allegedly firing a bullet through the door of a hotel room he was staying at while on a hunting trip with The Isley Brothers
28 November: JOHN LENNON joins ELTON JOHN on stage at Madison Square Garden for three songs. It is ultimately the last stage performance Lennon would make in his life.
12 December: MICK TAYLOR leaves The Rolling Stones after 6 years.
31 December:

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM and STEVIE NICKS join Fleetwood Mac
The third annual New Year's Rockin' Eve, moving this year from NBC to ABC, is aired with performances by Herbie Hancock, The Beach Boys, Chicago, Olivia Newton-John and The Doobie Brothers

Also in 1974:

Lord Shorty's Endless Vibrations is the first soca LP and the first major soca hit worldwide.
ROVER THOMAS claims to have been visited in a dream by a deceased friend near Warmun, Australia and receives the Krill Krill song cycle.
Journey signs to Columbia Records.
Daniel Amos forms out of the remnants of Jubal's Last Band.
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.

Published Popular Music

"Annie's Song" = lyrics & music by JOHN DENVER
"Happy Days" = lyrics & music by PRATT & McCLAIN from the ABC-TV Series Happy Days
"Hasta Mañana" = lyrics & music by BENNY ANDERSSON, STIG ANDERSON & BJÖRN ULVAEUS
"I Honestly Love You" = lyrics & music by PETER ALLEN & JEFF BARRY
"I Won't Send Roses" = lyrics & music by JERRY HERMAN from the musical Mack & Mabel
"I've Got The Music In Me" = lyrics & music by BIAS BOSHELL
"Midnight At The Oasis" = lyrics & music by DAVID NICHTERN
"Murder On The Orient Express" = music by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT from the film Murder on the Orient Express
"Freebird" = by LYNYRD SKYNYRD
"No Goodbyes" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN & ROBERT B. SHERMAN from the musical Over Here
"Pencil Thin Mustache" = lyrics & music by JIMMY BUFFETT
"Ring Ring" = lyrics & music by BENNY ANDERSSON, STIG ANDERSON, BJÖRN ULVAEUS, NEIL SEDAKA & PHIL CODY
"She" = lyrics by HERBERT KRETZMER; music by CHARLES AZNAVOUR
"Southern Nights" = lyrics & music by ALLEN TOUSSAINT
"Sundown" = lyrics & music by GORDON LIGHTFOOT
"Sunshine On My Shoulder" = lyrics & music by JOHN DENVER, RICHARD KNISS & MICHAEL TAYLOR
"Tap Your Troubles Away" = lyrics & music by JERRY HERMAN from the musical Mack & Mabel
"Waterloo" = lyrics & music by BENNY ANDERSSON, STIG ANDERSON & BJÖRN ULVAEUS
"We May Never Love Like This Again" = lyrics & music by AL KASHA & JOEL HIRSCHORN from the film The Towering Inferno
"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" = lyrics & music by DON REID
"(You're) Having My Baby" = lyrics & music by PAUL ANKA
"Gigi L'Amoroso" = by DALIDA
"Anima Mia" = by DALIDA
"Ta Femme" = by 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
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