January–April

• January 2 - New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
   John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
• January 5 - The Wiz
  The Wiz
  The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
  
  , a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of...
  
   story, opens at Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
  's Majestic Theater in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
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• January 6 - Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
   fans, waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert, cause an estimated $30,000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden. The fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. Boston Mayor Kevin White cancels the upcoming show.
• January 8 - Three Led Zeppelin concerts at Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden
  Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
  
   sell out in a record four hours.
• January 12 - "The Warner Brothers Music Show" begins a nine city, 18 show tour of Europe. The tour included Warner Brothers
  Warner Bros. Records
  Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
  
   acts Little Feat
  Little Feat
  Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
  
  , Tower of Power
  Tower of Power
  Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...
  
  , the Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. The group has sold over 40 million units worldwide throughout their career. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.-Original incarnation:...
  
  , Bonaroo, Montrose
  Montrose (band)
  Montrose was a California-based hard rock band. The band originally featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo artist and former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar...
  
  , and Graham Central Station
  Graham Central Station
  Graham Central Station is a funk band named after founder Larry Graham . The name is a pun on New York City's Grand Central Terminal, often incorrectly called Grand Central Station....
  
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• February 13 - The film Slade In Flame
  Slade In Flame
  Slade In Flame is a 1975 film starring the members of the band Slade. In 2007, BBC film critic Mark Kermode called it the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" and included its soundtrack among the 50 greatest soundtracks in cinema's history.Record Mirror magazine voted the film at #4 on the top 10...
  
  , starring the members of Slade
  Slade
  Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles...
  
  , premieres at the Metropole Theatre in London.
• February 21 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   releases his Rock 'n' Roll
  Rock 'n' Roll (John Lennon album)
  Rock 'n' Roll is a 1975 album of late 1950s and early 1960s songs covered by John Lennon. Recording the album was problematic and spanned a year. Though critically derided, it reached #6 in both the United Kingdom and the United States.-History:...
  
   LP, featuring his favorite rock songs from the 1950s. To promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously.
• March 2 - Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to be Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
   and his wife Linda
  Linda McCartney
  Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
  
  . Linda is arrested for having 170 to 225 grams (six to eight ounces) of marijuana
  Cannabis (drug)
  Cannabis, also known as marijuana among many other names, refers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana comes from the Mexican Spanish word marihuana...
  
   in her pocketbook.
• March 21 - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  , now a solo artist, begins the Welcome to My Nightmare
  Welcome to My Nightmare
  Welcome to My Nightmare is the eighth album by Alice Cooper, released in 1975. This was Alice Cooper's first solo album . The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan for Pacific Eye & Ear. Rolling Stone would later rank it as one of the "Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time".Welcome to My Nightmare...
  
   tour in Kalamazoo, Michigan
  Kalamazoo, Michigan
  The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to...
  
  . The elaborate show is among the largest stage spectacles of the decade.
• March 22 - In the Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest 1975
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in Stockholm, Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö in southern Stockholm. ABBA's victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the...
  
   in Stockholm
  Stockholm
  Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
  
  , Sweden
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
  , the Dutch group Teach-In
  Teach-In
  Teach-In was a Dutch band, best known for winning Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song Ding-A-Dong. The band was founded in 1969 and parted in 1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in lineup.-History:...
  
   wins with the song "Ding-A-Dong
  Ding-A-Dong
  Ding-A-Dong was the title of the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975...
  
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• March 23 - Promoter Bill Graham
  Bill Graham
  William Carvel "Bill" Graham, PC QC is a former Canadian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of National Defence, and Leader of the Opposition and interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.-Personal life:...
  
   stages the S.N.A.C.K. (Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks) charity concert at Kezar Stadium
  Kezar Stadium
  Kezar Stadium is a stadium located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. It is the former home of the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL, and of the San Francisco Dragons of MLL. It also served as the home of the...
  
   in San Francisco, California, to benefit the city's educational system. Almost 60,000 people come to see The Grateful Dead, The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers
  The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. The group has sold over 40 million units worldwide throughout their career. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.-Original incarnation:...
  
  , Santana
  Santana (band)
  Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
  
  , Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...
  
  , Tower of Power
  Tower of Power
  Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...
  
  , Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri
  Eddie Palmieri , is a Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms.-Early years:...
  
  , Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
  , Graham Central Station
  Graham Central Station
  Graham Central Station is a funk band named after founder Larry Graham . The name is a pun on New York City's Grand Central Terminal, often incorrectly called Grand Central Station....
  
   and Neil Young
  Neil Young
  Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
  
   joined by members of The Band
  The Band
  The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
  
   along with a surprise appearance by Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  . It's the largest benefit concert in history to date.
• March 26 - The film version of The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
  's Tommy
  Tommy (film)
  Tommy is a 1975 British musical film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album musical Tommy. It was directed by Ken Russell and featured a star-studded cast, including the band members themselves...
  
   premieres in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
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• April 3 - Steve Miller
  Steve Miller (musician)
  Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...
  
   is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, and resisting arrest. DiOrio drops the charges the following day.
• April 7 - Ritchie Blackmore
  Ritchie Blackmore
  Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...
  
   plays a final show with Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
  
   in Paris before quitting to form his own group, Rainbow
  Rainbow (band)
  Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
  
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• April 17 - Cambodian singer-songwriter Sinn Sisamouth
  Sinn Sisamouth
  Sinn Sisamouth was a famous and highly prolific Cambodian singer-songwriter in the 1950s to the 1970s.Widely considered the "King of Khmer music", Sisamouth, along with Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron, and other artists, was part of a thriving pop music scene in Phnom Penh that blended elements of Khmer...
  
   and his pregnant wife are among millions forced out of Phnom Penh
  Phnom Penh
  Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security,...
  
   by the Khmer Rouge.
• April 18 - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  's first television special, Welcome to My Nightmare: The Making of a Record Album airs.
• April 24 - Pete Ham, founder of the group Badfinger
  Badfinger
  Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Ron Griffiths, Mike Gibbins and Tom Evans, active from 1968 to 1983, and evolving from The Iveys, formed by Ham, Griffiths and David "Dai" Jenkins in Swansea, Wales, in the early 1960s. Joey Molland joined the group in 1969,...
  
  , is found hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide.
• April 28 - Tom Snyder
  Tom Snyder
  Thomas James "Tom" Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows The Tomorrow Show, on the NBC television network in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on the CBS Television Network in the 1990s...
  
   interviews John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   on the Tomorrow Show
  Tomorrow (TV series)
  Tomorrow was an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder...
  
  .

May–August

• May 1 - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
   announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar
  Brown Sugar (song)
  "Brown Sugar" is a song by The Rolling Stones. It is the opening track and lead single from the English rock band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers...
  
   from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  . The occasion was guitarist Ronnie Wood's debut with the band.
• May 10 - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
   performs before 125,000 people at the Washington Monument
  Washington Monument
  The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington...
  
   as part of Human Kindness Day festivities.
• June 1 - The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
   open their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
  
  .
• June 20 - Talking Heads
  Talking Heads
  Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
  
   perform their first show at CBGB
  CBGB
  CBGB was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the...
  
   in New York.
• June 23 - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
   falls off the stage during a concert in Vancouver
  Vancouver
  Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
  
  , breaking six ribs.
• June 24 - "Gens du pays
  Gens du pays
  "Gens du pays" has been called the unofficial national anthem of Quebec. Written by poet, songwriter, and avowed Quebec nationalist Gilles Vigneault , it was first performed by Vigneault on June 24, 1975 during a concert on Montreal's Mount Royal at that year's Fête nationale du Québec ceremony...
  
  ", the unofficial national anthem of Quebec, is performed for the first time by Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault, is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad...
  
   in a concert on Montreal's Mount Royal.
• June 30 - Cher
  Cher
  Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
  
   and Gregg Allman
  Gregg Allman
  Gregory Lenoir Allman , known as Gregg Allman, is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia...
  
   are married in a Las Vegas
  Las Vegas metropolitan area
  The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
  
   hotel suite.
• July 4 - the Texas Senate
  Texas Senate
  The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature. There are 31 members of the Senate, representing 31 single-member districts across the state with populations of approximately 672,000 per constituency. There are no term limits, and each term is four years long. The Senate meets at the...
  
   declares the Fourth of July "Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
   Day", as over 70,000 fans visit Liberty Hill
  Liberty Hill, Texas
  Liberty Hill is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,409 at the 2000 census, and 1,491 in the 2005 census estimate.-Geography:Liberty Hill is located at , about 29 miles northwest of Austin....
  
   for the third annual picnic and country rock show headlined by Willie himself.
• August 4 - Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
  
   and his wife Maureen are seriously injured in a car accident while vacationing on the Greek island of Rhodes
  Rhodes
  Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...
  
  . The immediate future of Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
   is cast into doubt, as Plant will not recover for quite some time.
• August 9
  • The Bee Gees
    Bee Gees
    The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
    
     begin their mid-1970s international comeback when "Jive Talkin'
    Jive Talkin'
    "Jive Talkin" is a song by the Bee Gees, which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top-five on the UK singles chart in the summer of 1975. Largely recognized as the group's "comeback" song, it was their first U.S. top ten hit since "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" in...
    
    " reaches #1 and goes platinum with sales over 1 million.
  • Renato Carosone
    Renato Carosone
    Renato Carosone , born Renato Carusone, was among the greatest figures of Italian music scene in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a modern performer of the so-called canzone napoletana, Naples' song tradition.-Beginnings:Carosone was born in Naples...
    
    's comeback concert after a 15-year retirement.
  • The first Rock Music Awards, produced by Don Kirshner
    Don Kirshner
    Don Kirshner , known as "The Man With the Golden Ear", was an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups, such as The Monkees, Kansas and The Archies.-Early life:Don Kirshner was born to Gilbert Kirshner, a tailor,...
    
    , are held in Los Angeles, co-hosted by Elton John
    Elton John
    Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
    
     and Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
    
    . John wins "Outstanding Rock Personality of the Year".
• August 23 - Peter Gabriel
  Peter Gabriel
  Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...
  
   leaves British progressive rock group Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...
  
  .

September–December

• September 15 - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
   releases their ninth album, Wish You Were Here.
• September 29 - Singer Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr. Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was known as a master showman, and as one of the most dynamic singers and performers in R&B and rock history...
  
   suffers a massive heart attack while performing on stage in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
  Cherry Hill, New Jersey
  Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, representing an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census...
  
  . He survives but never physically recovers.
• October 7 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
   finally wins his battle to stay in the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   after the New York Court of Appeals
  New York Court of Appeals
  The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six associate judges who are appointed by the Governor to 14-year terms...
  
   overturns Lennon's 1972 deportation order.
• October 9
  • John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
     and Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
    
     become parents of Sean Ono Lennon
    Sean Lennon
    is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor. He is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. His godfather is Sir Elton John.-Early life and education:...
    
     at 2:00 AM. The birth heralds the beginning of John's temporary retirement from the music business as he vows to devote himself to family for the next five years.
  • Rock band Kiss
    KISS (band)
    Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
    
     earns publicity by playing the homecoming dance of Cadillac High School
    Cadillac High School
    Cadillac High School is a high school located in Cadillac, Michigan. The athletic teams are known as the Vikings. School colors are blue and gold. As of 2005, the school served 840 students, and had employed 37 teachers...
    
     in Cadillac, Michigan
    Cadillac, Michigan
    Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of US 131, M-55 and M-115...
    
    .
• October 18 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite on the second-ever episode of Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live
  Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
  
   on NBC, performing "The Boxer", "Scarborough Fair", and new collaboration "My Little Town
  My Little Town
  "My Little Town" is a 1975 song by the American duo Simon & Garfunkel. It was written by Paul Simon, who produced the track along with Art Garfunkel and Phil Ramone...
  
  ".
• October 27 - Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
   appears on the covers of both Time
  Time (magazine)
  Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
  
   and Newsweek
  Newsweek
  Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
  
   magazines on the same week.
• October 30 - Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  's Rolling Thunder Revue
  Rolling Thunder Revue
  The Rolling Thunder Revue was a famed U.S. concert tour consisting of a traveling caravan of musicians, headed by Bob Dylan, that took place in late 1975 and early 1976; the prevailing theory was that the tour was named after the Native American shaman Rolling Thunder. Others maintained that tour...
  
   tour begins.
• November 6 - The Sex Pistols
  Sex Pistols
  The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
  
   play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art
  Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
  Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
  
   in London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  .
• November 21 - Queen's
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
   "Bohemian Rhapsody
  Bohemian Rhapsody
  "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera...
  
  " goes to number one, where it remains for 5 weeks of 1975 and 4 weeks of 1976.
• December 10 - The John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
   holiday special Rocky Mountain Christmas airs on ABC.
• December 18 - The official break-up of Faces
  Faces (band)
  Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie...
  
   is announced at a London press conference. Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
  
   will continue his solo career while Ronnie Wood is widely expected to be announced as an official member of The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
   in the near future.
• December 24 - The first issue of Punk
  Punk (magazine)
  Punk is a music magazine/fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term "punk rock," coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier, led to its worldwide acceptance as the definition for the new bands that were...
  
   magazine is released with a January 1976 cover date. A drawing of Lou Reed
  Lou Reed
  Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
  
   is on the cover.
• December 25 - Bassist Steve Harris
  Steve Harris (musician)
  Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...
  
   forms Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
  , drawing the name from a torture device mentioned in The Man in the Iron Mask.
• December 31 - The fourth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve airs on ABC, with performances by Average White Band, Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....
  
  , Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender , born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados...
  
  , and Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...
  
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Also in 1975

• John Rutter
  John Rutter
  John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...
  
   becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge
  Clare College, Cambridge
  Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...
  
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• Billy Davis, Jr.
  Billy Davis, Jr.
  Billy Davis, Jr. is an American musician, best known as a member of The 5th Dimension. Along with his wife, Marilyn McCoo, he had hit records during 1976 and 1977 with "I Hope We Get to Love in Time", "Your Love", and "You Don't Have to Be a Star "...
  
   and Marilyn McCoo
  Marilyn McCoo
  Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold...
  
   leave the 5th Dimension and start solo careers.
• The Goodies
  The Goodies
  The Goodies are a trio of British comedians who created, wrote, and starred in a surreal British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy.-Honours:All three Goodies now have OBEs...
  
   have five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to Bill Oddie
  Bill Oddie
  William "Bill" Edgar Oddie OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who became famous as one of The Goodies....
  
  , "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".
• Ramones
  Ramones
  The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group...
  
   sign to Sire Records
  Sire Records
  Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...
  
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• See Musical groups established in 1975

Bands disbanded

• Brinsley Schwarz
  Brinsley Schwarz
  Brinsley Schwarz were a 1970s English pub rock band, named after their guitarist Brinsley Schwarz. With Nick Lowe on bass and vocals, keyboardist Bob Andrews and drummer Billy Rankin, the band evolved from the 1960s pop band Kippington Lodge.-Formation:...
  
  
• Faces
  Faces (band)
  Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie...
  
  
• Faust
  Faust (band)
  Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
  
   (reform in 1990)
• The First Edition
  The First Edition
  The First Edition was a country music/rock band. Its stalwart members being Kenny Rogers , Mickey Jones and Terry Williams...
  
   (Played a few shows without Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones
  Mickey Jones is an American musician and actor.-Early life:Jones was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Frances Marie and Fred Edward Jones...
  
   in 1976 before Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
   formed a new band)
• The Guess Who
  The Guess Who
  The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...
  
   (reform in 1977)
• Hatfield and the North
  Hatfield and the North
  Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter.-Career:...
  
  
• Humble Pie
  Humble Pie (band)
  Humble Pie was a rock band from England, finding success both in the UK and the US. They are remembered for songs such as "Black Coffee" "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", and "Natural Born Bugie"...
  
   (reform in 1979, 1989 and 2001)
• If
  If (band)
  If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...
  
  
• Jo Jo Gunne
  Jo Jo Gunne
  Jo Jo Gunne is a rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1971 by Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes after they had left Spirit...
  
   (reform in 2005)
• McGuinness Flint
  McGuinness Flint
  McGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle...
  
  
• Neu!
  Neu!
  Neu! was a German band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s...
  
   (reform in 1985)
• Ocean
  Ocean (band)
  Ocean was a gospel rock band formed in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their million-selling 1971 single "Put Your Hand in the Hand", penned by Gene MacLellan. The gramophone record sold over one million copies and received a gold disc awarded by the Recording...
  
  
• Raspberries
  Raspberries (band)
  Raspberries is an American power pop/pop rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. They had a run of success in the early 1970s music scene with their crisp pop sound, which Allmusic later described as featuring "exquisitely crafted melodies and achingly gorgeous harmonies." The members were known for their...
  
  
• Stealers Wheel
  Stealers Wheel
  Stealers Wheel are a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan and Rafferty in 2008.-Biography:...
  
   (reform in 2008)
• Wizzard
  Wizzard
  Wizzard was a Birmingham-based band formed by Roy Wood, former member of The Move and co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits states, "Wizzard was Roy Wood just as much as Wings were Paul McCartney."-Biography:...
  
  
• The Butts Band
  The Butts Band
  The Butts Band was a British and American group formed by ex-Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger that was active from 1973-1975.-History:The Butts Band came about as a consequence of The Doors trying to find a replacement for Jim Morrison...
  
  

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• Afro-Filipino - Joe Bataan
  Joe Bataan
  Joe Bataan is a Filipino-African American Latin R&B musician from New York.- Early life and career :...
  
  
• All the Fun of the Fair - David Essex
  David Essex
  David Essex OBE is an English musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Since the 1970s, Essex has attained nineteen Top 40 singles in the UK , and sixteen Top 40 albums...
  
  
• Armageddon
  Armageddon (Armageddon album)
  Armageddon was the only album released by British/American hard rock group Armageddon in 1975. It features Keith Relf of Yardbirds and Renaissance fame, Martin Pugh, lead guitarist on Rod Stewart's "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down" and with Steamhammer, US-American Bobby Caldwell who was...
  
   - Armageddon
• Born to Be with You
  Born to Be with You (album)
  - Production credits :* Phil Gernhard - Producer* Pete Romano - Engineer* Phil Spector - Producer-External links:* on Radio3Net a radio channel of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company...
  
   - Dion DiMucci
  Dion DiMucci
  Dion Francis DiMucci , better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop oldies music, rock and R&B styles....
  
   + Produced by Phil Spector
  Phil Spector
  Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector is an American record producer and songwriter, later known for his conviction in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson....
  
  
• Brown Rice - Don Cherry
  Don Cherry (jazz)
  Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...
  
  
• Captured Angel
  Captured Angel
  Captured Angel is the third album by the late American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1975 .-Side one:#"Aspen/These Days" – 7:39#"Comes and Goes" – 2:25#"Captured Angel" – 2:57#"Old Tennessee" – 3:07#"Next Time" – 4:10...
  
   - Dan Fogelberg
  Dan Fogelberg
  Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...
  
  
• The Car Over the Lake Album - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are a Southern rock/country rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. They are most widely known for their singles "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" in 1974 and "Jackie Blue" in 1975....
  
  
• Chocolate Chip - Isaac Hayes
  Isaac Hayes
  Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
  
  
• Chocolate City - Parliament
  Parliament (band)
  Parliament was a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...
  
  
• Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry (1975 album)
  Chuck Berry is a Chuck Berry album which was released in 1975 by Chess Records. Some pressings of this album carry the title Chuck Berry '75...
  
   - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
  
  
• Crack the Sky - Crack The Sky
  Crack the Sky
  Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone Magazine declared their first album "debut album of the year", and in 1978, Rolling Stone Record Guide compared them to Steely Dan; their first three albums charted on the...
  
  
• Dan McCafferty - Dan McCafferty
  Dan McCafferty
  Dan McCafferty is the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth. Under the influence of artists such as Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Otis Redding, McCafferty became one of the founding members of Nazareth in 1968...
  
  
• Das schönste im Leben
  Das schönste im Leben
  Das schönste im Leben is the fourth studio album released by German Schlager group Die Flippers.-Track listing:# "Luana"# "Desiree"# "Schöne Carmencita"# "Hanni Angela"# "Ich muß sie wiedersehn"...
  
   - Die Flippers
  Die Flippers
  Die Flippers are a German Schlager group formed in 1964. They are one of the most successful Schlager groups of all time, and have been constantly recording and releasing new music since their self-titled debut album was released in 1970. They have released 45 albums, 5 of which have gone...
  
  
• The Dragon is Dancing - Jimmie Spheeris
  Jimmie Spheeris
  Jimmie Spheeris November 5, 1949 – July 4, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels.He was of Greek descent...
  
  
• Dreadlocks Dread
  Dreadlocks Dread
  Dread Locks Dread is the third album by Jamaican deejay Big Youth.-Track listing:All tracks by Big Youth & Tony Robinson# "Train to Rhodesia" – 3:33# "House of Dread Locks" – 3:17# "Lightning Flash " – 3:21...
  
   - Big Youth
  Big Youth
  Manley Augustus Buchanan , better known as Big Youth , is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s....
  
  
• Ella and Oscar
  Ella and Oscar
  Ella and Oscar is a 1975 album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Oscar Peterson and, for the second half of the album, Ray Brown. Fitzgerald's two previous albums with piano accompaniment were 1950's Ella Sings Gershwin and 1960's Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph with...
  
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  , Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
  
  
• Expensive Shit
  Expensive Shit
  Expensive Shit is the twelfth full-length album by afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti and his Africa 70 band. It was ranked #78 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s." The title of the album refers to an incident in which the Nigerian police tried to arrest Kuti by planting a joint on...
  
   - Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti
  Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fish Rising
  Fish Rising
  Fish Rising is the debut solo album by English guitarist Steve Hillage, recorded and released in 1975 .The album was recorded just prior to Hillage's departure from the band Gong, and many of the players on this album are from that band: Bassist Mike Howlett, drummer Pierre Moerlen, keyboardist Tim...
  
   - Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
  
• For Earth Below
  For Earth Below (album)
  For Earth Below is guitarist and songwriter Robin Trower's third solo album with cover art by "Funky" Paul Olsen. It was released in 1975.-Fun Facts:...
  
   - Robin Trower
  Robin Trower
  Robin Leonard Trower , known professionally as Robin Trower, is an English rock guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fox
  Fox (album)
  Fox is the debut album by the band of the same name released in 1975. The cover photography was by Gered Mankowitz.-Track listing:All songs by Kenny Young unless noted.#"Love Letters" #"Imagine Me, Imagine You"...
  
   - Fox
  Fox (band)
  Fox was a British-based pop band popular in the mid 1970s. Led by American songwriter and record producer Kenny Young, the band was perhaps best known for its charismatic Australian lead singer Susan Traynor, who performed under the name Noosha Fox....
  
   (debut)
• A Funky Thide of Sings
  A Funky Thide of Sings
  A Funky Thide of Sings is a 1975 studio album by Billy Cobham.-Track listing:#"Panhandler"  – 3:50#"Sorcery"  – 2:26#"A Funky Thide of Sings"  – 3:23#"Thinking of You"  – 4:12...
  
   - Billy Cobham
  Billy Cobham
  William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
  
  
• Futurama
  Futurama (album)
  Futurama was the second album by the band Be-Bop Deluxe and released in 1975.After the line-up of Be-Bop Deluxe changed the band recorded the album with Bill Nelson , Charlie Tumahai , Simon Fox and Andrew Clark...
  
   - Be-Bop Deluxe
• Greatest Hits - David Cassidy
  David Cassidy
  David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the character of Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family. He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and...
  
  
• Half a Love
  Half a Love
  Half a Love is the eighth album by American soul group The Chi-Lites, produced and largely written by lead singer Eugene Record. The album was released in 1975 on the Brunswick label.-History:...
  
   - The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia...
  
  
• Heaven and Hell
  Heaven and Hell (Vangelis album)
  Heaven and Hell, released in 1975, is the fifth solo album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. It got worldwide recognition through the use of "Movement 3" as the theme for the television documentary series Cosmos....
  
   - Vangelis
  Vangelis
  Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
  
  
• Journey to Love
  Journey to Love
  Journey to Love is the third jazz funk fusion album by bass guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Stanley Clarke, accompanied by familiar musicians he has often worked with like George Duke and Chick Corea...
  
   - Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
  
• Juice Newton & Silver Spur
  Juice Newton & Silver Spur (album)
  Juice Newton & Silver Spur is the debut album by country-rock singer Juice Newton, credited as Juice Newton & Silver Spur. The album contains Newton's first charting single, "Love is a Word," and the original version of "The Sweetest Thing ," which was re-recorded in 1981 and became a #1 hit.-Side...
  
   - Juice Newton and Silver Spur
  Juice Newton
  Judith Kay "Juice" Newton is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist...
  
  
• The Köln Concert
  The Köln Concert
  The Köln Concert is a recording by the pianist Keith Jarrett of solo piano improvisations performed at the Cologne Opera House in Cologne on January 24, 1975 before a live audience...
  
   - Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
  
  
• Landed
  Landed (album)
  Landed is the band Can's seventh studio album, released in 1975. It is said to be the beginning of their poppier, less experimental era.The album has been described as the band's attempt at glam rock, and the upbeat nature of most of the tracks do give the album this feel...
  
   - Can
  Can (band)
  Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...
  
  
• Live at the Paris Olympia - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• Live/Hhaï
  Live/Hhaï
  Live/Hhaï is the first live album and fifth album in total by French Progressive rock group Magma. It was first released in 1975, and has been re-released many times: in 1978 on Tomato Records; In 1989 on Seventh; In 1996 on Charly; In 2001 on Victor; and again in 2001 on Charly...
  
   - Magma
  Magma (band)
  Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...
  
   - Live
• Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette
  Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette
  Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette is a 1975 live album by Mel Tormé. Tormé had not released an album since 1969, and would not make any studio recordings until 1977, with the launch of Tormé: A New Album....
  
   - Mel Tormé
  Mel Tormé
  Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
  
  
• Michael Bolotin
  Michael Bolotin (album)
  Michael Bolotin is the first studio album by American recording artist Michael Bolton, who recorded the album under his given name. It was released by RCA Records in 1975.-Track listing:# "Your Love" # "Give Me a Reason"...
  
   - Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...
  
  
• Montreux '75
  Montreux '75
  Montreux '75 is a 1975 live recorded album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan....
  
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  
• Moxy
  Moxy (album)
  - Reissued :Moxy’s original catalogue of albums were again available starting in 1994 when Valerie Shearman oversaw the release of all of Moxy's back catalogue of albums on CD through Pacemaker Records, and again in 2003 this time through Unidisc Music Inc.- External links :* * * Review of Moxy...
  
   - Moxy
  Moxy (band)
  Moxy was a Canadian hard rock and heavy metal band, formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1974, from previous members of the rock group, Leigh Ashford — which included singer Douglas "Buzz" Shearman Earl Johnson , Bill Wade Moxy was a Canadian hard rock and heavy metal band, formed in Toronto, Ontario in...
  
  
• Neu! '75
  Neu! '75
  - Personnel :Band members* Michael Rother – guitar, keyboards, vocals* Klaus Dinger – guitar , drums , vocals * Thomas Dinger – drums* Hans Lampe – drumsAdditional personnel...
  
   - Neu!
  Neu!
  Neu! was a German band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Nils Lofgren
  Nils Lofgren (album)
  Nils Lofgren is a 1975 album by Nils Lofgren, also known as the "Fat Man Album". It was his first solo album, following the breakup of his group, Grin....
  
   - Nils Lofgren
  Nils Lofgren
  Nils Hilmer Lofgren is an American rock music recording artist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
  
  
• Not a Little Girl Anymore
  Not a Little Girl Anymore (Linda Lewis album)
  Not a Little Girl Anymore is an album by English singer Linda Lewis, first released in 1975. Ms Lewis’ fifth album in as many years peaked at number 40 in the U.K...
  
   - Linda Lewis
  Linda Lewis
  Linda Lewis is an English vocalist, songwriter and Guitarist. Lewis is the oldest of six children two of whom also had singing careers...
  
  

• Not Just Another Pretty Foot - Jim Stafford
  Jim Stafford
  James Wayne "Jim" Stafford is an American comedian, musician, and singer-songwriter, prominent in the 1970s. Stafford is self-taught on guitar, fiddle, piano, banjo, organ and harmonica....
  
  
• Now
  Now (The Dubliners album)
  Now is an album by The Dubliners released in 1975. Following the departure of both Ciaran Bourke and Ronnie Drew in 1974, singer/guitarist Jim McCann joined Barney McKenna, Luke Kelly and John Sheahan as a member of The Dubliners to record this album, which Sheahan himself produced. The slight...
  
   - The Dubliners
  The Dubliners
  The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962.-Formation and history:The Dubliners, initially known as "The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group", formed in 1962 and made a name for themselves playing regularly in O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin...
  
  
• Old No. 1
  Old No. 1
  Old No. 1 is the highly influential 1975 debut album by Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark.The cover of the original LP featured a painting by Susanna Clark and liner notes by Jerry Jeff Walker. It was reissued on CD by Sugar Hill. Both Old No. 1 and Texas Cookin were re-issued on CD on the Camden...
  
   - Guy Clark
  Guy Clark
  Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
  
  
• Outlaws - The Outlaws
• Pangaea
  Pangaea (album)
  Pangaea is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1975. Both Pangaea and Agharta were recorded on the same day in Osaka, Japan...
  
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
   - Live
• Pick of the Litter
  Pick of the Litter (album)
  -Personnel:*Billy Henderson, Bobby Smith, Philippé Wynne, Henry Fambrough, Pervis Jackson – vocals*Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton – backing vocals*MFSB – strings, horns*Tony Bell, Bobby Eli, Don Murray – guitars...
  
   - The Spinners
• Pour Down Like Silver
  Pour Down Like Silver
  Pour Down Like Silver is the third album by the British duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard and singer Linda Thompson. It was recorded in the summer of 1975 and released in November 1975....
  
   - Richard and Linda Thompson
  Linda Thompson (singer)
  Linda Thompson is a British singer. Born Linda Pettifer in Hackney, Thompson became one of the most recognised names—and voices—in the British folk rock movement of the 1970s and 1980s, in collaboration with her former husband and fellow British folk rock musician, guitarist Richard...
  
  
• Power and the Passion - Eloy
  Eloy
  Eloy is a German progressive rock band, whose musical style includes symphonic and space rock, the latter theme being more prevalent on earlier albums...
  
  
• Pre-Creedence
  Pre-Creedence
  Pre-Creedence is a compilation album by The Golliwogs which changed its name to Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968. This album was released in 1975 after the band had broken up...
  
   - The Golliwogs
  The Golliwogs
  The Golliwogs were an American rock band that eventually became Creedence Clearwater Revival.The band started out, in 1959, as an instrumental trio called The Blue Velvets. The original line up was John Fogerty , Stu Cook , and Doug Clifford...
  
   - Compilation
• Reality - James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• Red Headed Stranger
  Red Headed Stranger
  Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. After the wide success of his recordings with Atlantic records, Nelson signed a contract with Columbia Records, a label that gave him total creative control over his works...
  
   - Willie Nelson
  Willie Nelson
  Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
  
  
• Right or Wrong - Stealers Wheel
  Stealers Wheel
  Stealers Wheel are a Scottish folk rock/rock band formed in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1972 by former school friends Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty.The band broke up in 1975 and re-formed without Egan and Rafferty in 2008.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rimmel
  Rimmel (album)
  Rimmel is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori. It was released in 1975 by RCA Italia, and is generally considered among De Gregori's finest works, containing some of his most popular songs, such as "Rimmel", "Pablo" and "Buonanotte fiorellino".-The album:The LP was well...
  
   - Francesco de Gregori
  Francesco De Gregori
  Francesco De Gregori is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is popularly known as "Il Principe Poeta" , a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.-1970s:...
  
  
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)
  -Bonus tracks :# "Time Warp "# "Time Warp "-The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years of Absolute Pleasure :-In popular culture:...
  
   - Various Artists - Soundtrack
• Ronnie Drew
  Ronnie Drew (album)
  Ronnie Drew is the debut album of Ronnie Drew, released in 1975.Produced by John Curran, this was Drew's first solo album, made in 1975 after he first left The Dubliners. Many of the tracks he had previously recorded, or would subsequently re-record, with The Dubliners...
  
   - Ronnie Drew
  Ronnie Drew
  Joseph Ronald "Ronnie" Drew was an Irish singer and folk musician who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. He was born in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin...
  
   (solo debut)
• Rudy's Rock: The Sax That Changed the World - Rudy Pompilli
  Rudy Pompilli
  Rudy Pompilli in Chester, Pennsylvania on April 16, 1924 — died February 5, 1976) was an American musician best known for playing tenor saxophone with Bill Haley and His Comets.-Biography:...
  
   and The Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of...
  
  
• Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - Rufus
  Rufus (band)
  Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody."-Origins:...
  
  
• Scheherazade and Other Stories
  Scheherazade and Other Stories
  Scheherazade and Other Stories is a 1975 album by progressive rock band Renaissance. It has often been considered their overall best album....
  
   - Renaissance
  Renaissance (band)
  Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, most notable for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics like "Carpet of the Sun", "Mother Russia" and "Ashes Are Burning".-Original incarnation :...
  
  
• Searchin' for a Rainbow
  Searchin' for a Rainbow
  Searchin' for a Rainbow is the 4th studio album by The Marshall Tucker Band. It was released in 1975.-Side One:#"Fire on the Mountain" - 3:53#"Searchin' for a Rainbow" - 3:48#"Walkin' and Talkin'" - 2:25#"Virginia" - 4:54-Side Two:...
  
   - The Marshall Tucker Band
  The Marshall Tucker Band
  The Marshall Tucker Band is an American Southern rock band originally from Spartanburg, South Carolina. The band's blend of rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, country, and gospel helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s...
  
  
• Sex Machine Today - James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
• Sky High - The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys
  The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...
  
  
• Solstice
  Solstice (Ralph Towner album)
  Solstice is an album by the American guitarist Ralph Towner that was released on the ECM label in 1975. It features Towner with Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber and Jon Christensen....
  
   - Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
  
  
• Specs Appeal
  Specs Appeal
  Specs Appeal is the tenth rock album by British instrumental group The Shadows, released in 1975 through Columbia .-Track listing:-Personnel:*Electric & acoustic guitars - Hank Marvin, John Farrar & Bruce Welch...
  
   - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• Stand Back - April Wine
  April Wine
  April Wine is a Canadian rock band formed in 1969. According to the band, they chose the name 'April Wine' simply because members thought the two words sounded good together...
  
  
• Still Caught Up - Millie Jackson
  Millie Jackson
  Mildred "Millie" Jackson is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and comedienne. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies....
  
  
• The Sun Collection
  The Sun Sessions
  The Sun Sessions is a compilation of Elvis Presley recordings at Sun Studios in 1954 and 1955. It was issued by RCA Records in 1976. It had been issued and charted as The Sun Collection in the United Kingdom the previous year...
  
   - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
   (in the UK, released in the US in 1976 as The Sun Sessions)
• Sunset and Other Beginnings - Melanie
  Melanie Safka
  Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
  
  
• The Sweet Singles Album
  The Sweet Singles Album
  The Sweet Singles Album is a 1975 compilation album by The Sweet released on RCA Records for Australia and New Zealand only.-LP Track listing:Side 1#"The Ballroom Blitz" – 3:59#"Man From Mecca" – 2:45...
  
   - The Sweet
• Tails of Illusion
  Tails of Illusion
  -Track listing:All songs by Kenny Young unless noted.#"Yuli, Yuli" - 3:39#"Survival" - 4:17 #"Strange Ships" - 5:01#"For Whatever It's Worth" - 2:52#"Little Brown Box" - 4:16 #"Minor Therapy" - 5:00...
  
   - Fox
  Fox (band)
  Fox was a British-based pop band popular in the mid 1970s. Led by American songwriter and record producer Kenny Young, the band was perhaps best known for its charismatic Australian lead singer Susan Traynor, who performed under the name Noosha Fox....
  
  
• Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads
  Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads
  Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads, released in 1975, was the eighth and final studio album by British jazz-rock band If. It was followed by compilation CDs covering tracks from the first four LPs featuring the band's previous line-up....
  
   - IF
  If (band)
  If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...
  
  
• Thank You Baby - The Stylistics
  The Stylistics
  The Stylistics are a soul music vocal group, and were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and were composed of lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads, graced by the...
  
  
• There's No Place Like America Today
  There's No Place Like America Today
  -Personnel:*Curtis Mayfield- guitar, vocals*Gary Thompson, Phil Upchurch - guitar*Joseph "Lucky" Scott - bass*Quinton Joseph - drums*Henry Gibson - percussion*Rich Tufo - arrangements...
  
   - Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
  
  
• Thirteen Blue Magic Lane
  Thirteen Blue Magic Lane
  Thirteen Blue Magic Lane is the third album by American soul group Blue Magic, produced by Norman Harris and Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey and released in 1975 on the Atco label.-History:...
  
   - Blue Magic
  Blue Magic (band)
  Blue Magic is an American soul music group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972, they were originally composed of lead Ted Mills, Vernon Sawyer, Wendell Sawyer, Keith Beaton, and Richard Pratt...
  
  
• Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (Patrick Sky album)
  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back is a Patrick Sky LP released as SLIF 2000 on Leviathan Records, identified as "[a] division of Innisfree Inc." on the back sleeve...
  
   - Patrick Sky
  Patrick Sky
  Patrick Sky is a musician, singer and songwriter of Irish and Native American ancestry...
  
  
• Velvet Donkey
  Velvet Donkey
  Velvet Donkey is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1975 on Virgin Records. Cutler is joined on the record by Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks, and by Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories and is also credited with designing the album cover.-Track...
  
   - Ivor Cutler
  Ivor Cutler
  Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme...
  
  
• Waves - Jade Warrior
  Jade Warrior (band)
  Jade Warrior are a British group that were formed in 1970, originally evolving out of a band named July. The founding members were Tony Duhig , Jon Field and Glyn Havard...
  
  

Biggest hit singles

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart entries
1	Billy Swan Billy Swan Billy Lance Swan is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".-Life:Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a child, he learned drums, piano and guitar, and began writing songs...	I Can Help I Can Help "I Can Help" is a song written and performed by Billy Swan. Released in September 1974, the song was a big crossover smash, reaching #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts late that fall....	1975		US BB 1 - Sep 1974, Holland 1 - Dec 1974, Austria 1 - Jan 1975, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1975, Norway 1 - Feb 1975, Belgium 1 - Dec 1975, New Zealand 1 - Feb 1975, Germany 1 - Feb 1975, Australia 1 - Jan 1975, France 1 - Feb 1975, Canada 2 - Nov 1974, South Africa - 3, ...
2	ABBA ABBA ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...	SOS SOS (ABBA song) Agnetha Fältskog's version was the second single from her fifth Swedish solo-album Elva kvinnor i ett hus . It was the only song from this album not to have been composed by Fältskog herself....	1975		Germany 1 - Jan 1976, Australia 1 - 1, South Africa - 1, Aug 1976, Holland 2 - Jun 1975, Austria 2 - Sep 1975, Norway 2 - Oct 1975, Switzerland 3 - Aug 1975, UK 6 - Sep 1975, Italy 7 of 1976, US BB 15 - Oct 1975, Canada 16 - Oct 1975
3	George Baker Selection	Paloma Blanca Paloma Blanca Paloma Blanca, often called Una Paloma Blanca, is a 1975 song written by the Dutch musician George Baker and first recorded by his band The George Baker Selection. The single was a hit throughout Europe, and was taken from the group's fifth album of the same name.The song became a #1 hit on the U.S...	1975		Holland 1 - Mar 1975, Sweden 1 - Nov 1975, Austria 1 - Jul 1975, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1975, Norway 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - May 1975, South Africa - 1, Canada 5 - Jan 1976, UK 10 - Sep 1975, US BB 26 - Jan 1976, Italy 44 of 1975
4	The Sweet	Fox on the Run	1975		Germany 1 - Mar 1975, Australia 1 - Mar 1975, South Africa - 1, UK 2 - Mar 1975, Canada 2 - Nov 1975, Holland 2 - Apr 1975, Norway 2 - Apr 1975, Austria 3 - May 1975, Switzerland 3 - May 1975, US BB 5 - Nov 1975, Sweden 10 - Nov 1975
5	Glen Campbell Glen Campbell Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...	Rhinestone Cowboy	1975		US BB 1 - Sep 1975, Canada - 1, Belgium - 1, Ireland - 1, New Zealand - 2, South Africa - 2, Netherlands - 3, UK - 4, Australia - 5

Chronological table of U.S. and UK number one hit singles

Other significant singles

• "#9 Dream
  Number 9 Dream
  "#9 Dream" is a song written by John Lennon and first issued on his 1974 album Walls and Bridges. It was released as the second single from that album months later, on Apple Records catalogue Apple 1878 in the United States and Apple R6003 in the United Kingdom...
  
  " - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  
• "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady
  Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady
  -Recording and Release:An apparent farewell to a self-absorbed lover, "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" was first recorded by its composer Harriet Schock who'd recall having written the first verse and title of "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" on a serviette "on an airplane as I was leaving someone...
  
  " - Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...
  
  
• "All By Myself
  All by Myself
  "All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975.The verse is based on the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18...
  
  " - Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  Eric Howard Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries , and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It",...
  
  
• "All My Friends Are Getting Married" - Skyhooks
• "Amie" - Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League
  Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio with Craig Fuller, George Powell, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a 19th century temperance union mentioned...
  
  
• "Apache
  Apache (instrumental)
  "Apache" is an instrumental written by Jerry Lordan. It has been recorded by many people, but the first released version was recorded by British group The Shadows in June 1960 and released the following month. The song topped the UK singles chart for five weeks...
  
  " - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
   (re-release)
• "At Seventeen
  At Seventeen
  "At Seventeen" is a song by Janis Ian, released in 1975 on Between the Lines and as a single. Ian's most successful recording, the song is a commentary on adolescent cruelty, the illusion of popularity, and teenage angst, as reflected upon from the maturity of adulthood...
  
  " - Janis Ian
  Janis Ian
  Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
  
  
• "Autobahn
  Autobahn (song)
  "Autobahn" is a song by German electronic band Kraftwerk, composed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider of the band, with Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is co-produced by Conny Plank, and was the band's first track to use sung lyrics...
  
  " - Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
  
  
• "Baby Please Don't Go" - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "Back in the Night
  Back in the Night
  "Back in the Night" is a song by the band Dr. Feelgood. Recorded in 1975 it appeared on their second album, Malpractice."Back in the Night" was also issued as a single in the UK in July 1975. It failed to reach the UK Singles Chart. Written by Wilko Johnson, and produced by Vic Maile, the song was...
  
  " - Dr. Feelgood
  Dr. Feelgood (band)
  Dr. Feelgood are a British pub rock band formed in 1971. The band's name derives from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who is willing to overprescribe drugs. It is also a reference to a 1962 record by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman called "Dr Feel-Good", which...
  
  
• "Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
• "The Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...
  
  
• "Black Friday" - Steely Dan
  Steely Dan
  Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
  
  
• "Black Superman Muhammed Ali" - Johnny Wakelin
  Johnny Wakelin
  Johnny Wakelin is a British Pye Records recording artist.-Career:He had his first outings in clubs in his hometown but without big success...
  
  
• "Bloody Well Right
  Bloody Well Right
  "Bloody Well Right" is a song by the progressive rock band Supertramp from their 1974 album Crime of the Century. Released in April 1975, it failed to chart in the United Kingdom but became their breakthrough hit in the United States, peaking at number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " - Supertramp
  Supertramp
  Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name Daddy before renaming to Supertramp in early 1970. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they have since incorporated a combination of traditional rock and art rock into their music...
  
  
• "Blue Guitar" - Justin Hayward
  Justin Hayward
  Justin Hayward is an English musician, best known as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues.Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England...
  
   and John Lodge
• "Boogie on Reggae Woman
  Boogie On Reggae Woman
  "Boogie On Reggae Woman" is a 1974 funk single by American Motown artist Stevie Wonder, from the album Fulfillingness' First Finale. The song, which was not in the reggae style, continued Wonder's successful Top Ten streak on the pop charts, reaching number three and also spent two weeks at number...
  
  " - Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  
• "Born to Run
  Born to Run (song)
  "Born to Run" is a song by American singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and the title song of his album Born to Run.- Songwriting :Written at in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released two...
  
  " - Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
  
• "The Boys Are Back in Town
  The Boys Are Back in Town
  "The Boys Are Back in Town" is a single from Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The song came out in 1976 on their album Jailbreak. It was honoured with the 499th position among the 2004 Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, though it was not included in the 2010 update...
  
  " - Thin Lizzy
  Thin Lizzy
  Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums...
  
  
• "Calypso
  Calypso (song)
  "Calypso" is a song written by John Denver in 1975 as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso. The song was featured on Denver's 1975 album Windsong....
  
  " - John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
  
• "Can I Sit Next to You Girl
  Can I Sit Next To You Girl
  "Can I Sit Next to You Girl" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It is the seventh track on their Australian album T.N.T., released in December 1975 , and is also the sixth track on the international version of High Voltage, released in May 1976.-Recordings:Written by Angus Young and...
  
  " - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "Can't Get It Out of My Head
  Can't Get It Out of My Head
  Can't Get It Out of My Head is a song by Electric Light Orchestra.First released on the band's fourth album, Eldorado, in July 1974, the song is the second track on the album and follows "Eldorado Overture." The song was released in November of that same year as a single.The song became the band's...
  
  " - Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
  
  
• "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You
  Can't Stop Myself from Loving You
  "Can't Stop Myself From Loving You" was a song written by ex-Easybeats members Harry Vanda & George Young in 1974 and was recorded by Johnny Cave, aka stage act William Shakespeare. It was Shakespeare's second first hit in Australia,making the number 2 spot on the Australian charts...
  
  " - William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare (singer)
  William Shakespeare was the stage name of Australian Glam rock singer John Stanley Cave, also known as John Cabe or Billy Shake. He had two Australian hit singles, "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You" which peaked at #2 on the Kent Music Report in 1974 and "My Little Angel" which peaked at #1 in 1975...
  
  
• "The Carpet Crawlers
  The Carpet Crawlers
  "The Carpet Crawlers", also sometimes listed as "Carpet Crawl", "The Carpet Crawl" or "Carpet Crawlers", is a song originally from the 1974 Genesis concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway...
  
  " - Genesis
  Genesis (band)
  Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...
  
  
• "Cavalry" - Daryl Braithwaite
  Daryl Braithwaite
  Daryl Braithwaite is an Australian pop singer. Best known as the lead vocalist of Sherbet, Braithwaite has also sustained a successful solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including the No...
  
  
• "Chevy Van" - Sammy Johns
  Sammy Johns
  Sammy Johns is an American country singer-songwriter, best known for his million selling 1975 hit single, "Chevy Van".-Career:...
  
  
• "Convoy
  Convoy (song)
  "Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US. Written by McCall and Chip Davis, the song spent six weeks at number one on the country charts and one week at number one on the pop charts...
  
  " - C. W. McCall
  C. W. McCall
  C. W. McCall is the pseudonym of William Dale Fries, Jr. , an American singer, activist and politician known for his truck-themed outlaw country songs.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Could It Be Magic
  Could It Be Magic
  "Could It Be Magic" is a song by Adrienne Anderson and Barry Manilow. It was included on Manilow's 1973 debut album, Barry Manilow.Due to its popularity, it was released as a single in 1975, two years after it had originally been recorded, where it reached #6 in the United States.Manilow's...
  
  " - Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana ."...
  
  
• "Curiosity Killed the Cat" - Little River Band
  Little River Band
  Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...
  
  
• "Cut the Cake
  Cut the Cake (album)
  Cut the Cake is the third album released by Average White Band, released in 1975. This album included the hit single "Cut the Cake", which reached #10 on the Billboard pop singles chart....
  
  " - Average White Band
• "D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
  D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
  "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." is a 1975 UK number-one single by Scottish folk singer and comedian Billy Connolly. A comedy song, it reached #1 for one week in November 1975 and was one of the few songs of its genre to reach this milestone....
  
  " - Billy Connolly
  Billy Connolly
  William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin...
  
  
• "Daisy Jane" - America
  America (band)
  America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...
  
  
• "Dance With Me" - Orleans
  Orleans (band)
  Orleans is an American pop-rock band best known for its hits "Dance with Me" , "Still the One", from the album Waking and Dreaming and "Love Takes Time" . The group's name evolved from the music it was playing at the time of their formation, which was inspired by Louisiana artists such as Allen...
  
  
• "Department of Youth" - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  
• "Ding-A-Dong
  Ding-A-Dong
  Ding-A-Dong was the title of the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975...
  
  " - Teach-In
  Teach-In
  Teach-In was a Dutch band, best known for winning Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with the song Ding-A-Dong. The band was founded in 1969 and parted in 1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in lineup.-History:...
  
  
• "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" - Sugarloaf
  Sugarloaf (band)
  Sugarloaf was an American, Denver, Colorado based, rock and roll band in the 1970s, featuring Jerry Corbetta.Jerry Corbetta founded the band with guitarist Bob Webber of the Moonrakers; the other initial bandmembers were drummer Bob MacVittie on drums and rhythm guitarist Veeder Van Dorn III, also...
  
  
• "Dreamer
  Dreamer (Supertramp song)
  "Dreamer" is a hit single from Supertramp's 1974 album Crime of the Century. It peaked at Number 13 on the UK singles chart in February 1975. In 1980, it appeared on their live album Paris...
  
  " - Supertramp
  Supertramp
  Supertramp are a British rock band formed in 1969 under the name Daddy before renaming to Supertramp in early 1970. Though their music was initially categorised as progressive rock, they have since incorporated a combination of traditional rock and art rock into their music...
  
  
• "Dynomite, Part 1" - Bazuka
  Bazuka
  Bazuka was an American instrumental R&B group, put together by the record producer Tony Camillo. They released a self-titled album on A&M Records in 1975 which featured the song "Dynomite", a #10 hit in the US Billboard pop chart that year. The single also peaked at #29 on the US R&B chart, #6 Hot...
  
  
• "Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
  Ego Is Not a Dirty Word
  Ego Is Not a Dirty Word was the second album released by Australian band Skyhooks in mid-1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful album, Living in the Seventies. As with the former album, it was also produced by Ross Wilson....
  
  " - Skyhooks
• "Eighteen With a Bullet" - Pete Wingfield
  Pete Wingfield
  Pete Wingfield is an English record producer, keyboard player, songwriter, singer and music journalist.-Career:...
  
  
• "Emma
  Emma (song)
  Emma, also known as Emma, Emmaline or Emmeline, is a song by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson released as a single by Hot Chocolate in 1974. It reached No.3 in the UK charts and No.8 in the US charts. Brown explained to The Mail on Sunday in 2009: "The story is tied to the death of my mother, aged 38...
  
  " - Hot Chocolate
• "Evil Woman
  Evil Woman (Electric Light Orchestra song)
  "Evil Woman" is a song written by lead vocalist Jeff Lynne and recorded by Electric Light Orchestra.First released on the band's fifth album, 1975's Face the Music. Released as a single in late-1975, the song became the band's first worldwide hit...
  
  " - Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
  
  
• "Express" - B.T. Express
  B.T. Express
  B.T. Express was an American funk/disco group, that had a number of successful songs during the 1970s.-Career:...
  
  
• "Feel Like Makin' Love
  Feel Like Makin' Love (Bad Company song)
  "Feel Like Makin' Love" is a song by British supergroup Bad Company. The song originally appeared on the LP Straight Shooter in April 1975 and was released as a single in August of the same year...
  
  " - Bad Company
  Bad Company
  Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
  
  
• "Feelings
  Feelings (song)
  "Feelings" is a song based on a melody composed by Loulou Gasté and made famous by Morris Albert, who recorded it as a single released in 1974 that later appeared as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song's lyrics, recognizable by their "whoa whoa whoa" chorus, concern the singer's...
  
  " - Morris Albert
  Morris Albert
  Morris Albert is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, famous for his 1975 hit single "Feelings"....
  
  
• "Fight the Power (Part 1)" - The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
  
  
• "Fly Away
  Fly Away (John Denver song)
  "Fly Away" is a 1975 song written and performed by John Denver, with Olivia Newton-John on backup vocals. Released as a single from the Windsong album, "Fly Away" peaked at number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent two weeks atop the adult contemporary chart in early-1976, Denver's...
  
  " - John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
  
• "Fly, Robin, Fly
  Fly, Robin, Fly
  "Fly, Robin, Fly" is a 1975 record by the German group Silver Convention. The song was released as a single from their 1975 album Save Me. In the United States, it rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1975, staying there for three weeks. The single also was #1 on the soul singles chart...
  
  " - Silver Convention
  Silver Convention
  Silver Convention was a German euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.-Career:...
  
  
• "Fox on the Run" - Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...
  
  
• "Freedom" - Sherbet
  Sherbet (band)
  Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...
  
  
• "Funky Gibbon" - The Goodies
  The Goodies
  The Goodies are a trio of British comedians who created, wrote, and starred in a surreal British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy.-Honours:All three Goodies now have OBEs...
  
  
• "Funky Moped" - Jasper Carrott
  Jasper Carrott
  Jasper Carrott OBE is a British comedian, actor, television presenter and personality.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Get Dancin'" - Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
  Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
  Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes were a disco group of the 1970s headed by Sir Monti Rock III .-Career:...
  
  
• "Golden Years
  Golden Years (song)
  An updated single for "Golden Years" was released in 2011 to coincide with the re-release of Station to Station. 4 new remixes were provided by DJs from radio station KCRW in California.-Track listing:# "Golden Years " - 3:27...
  
  " - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  
• "Good Lovin' Gone Bad
  Good Lovin' Gone Bad
  "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" was a 1974 TOP 40, major trans-Atlantic hit for English rock band, Bad Company. This track was written by the band's guitarist, former Mott the Hoople guitarist, Mick Ralphs. Paul Rodgers belts out this instant classic in his own precision, blues-gravel style. The song...
  
  " - Bad Company
  Bad Company
  Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
  
  
• "Have a Cigar
  Have a Cigar
  "Have a Cigar" is the third track on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. It follows "Welcome to the Machine" and on the original LP opened side two...
  
  " - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
  
• "Heat Wave
  (Love is Like a) Heat Wave
  " Heat Wave" is a 1963 hit single penned by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team and made popular by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. It was originally released in July 1963, on the Motown subsidiary label Gordy, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Hot...
  
  " - Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
  
• "Hey You" - Bachman–Turner Overdrive
• "High Voltage
  High Voltage (song)
  Not to be confused with Danger! High Voltage"High Voltage" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was first released in Australia as a single in July 1975, and it is the eighth track of their second Australian album T.N.T. The song was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott....
  
  " - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "Hijack" - Herbie Mann
  Herbie Mann
  Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
  
  
• "Hold Back the Night
  Hold Back the Night
  Hold Back the Night is a 1956 Korean War war film based on the 1951 novel by Pat Frank, who had been a war correspondent in Korea. The film was directed by Allan Dwan; his third film with John Payne.-Plot:...
  
  " - The Trammps
  The Trammps
  The Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973...
  
  
• "Hold On To Love" - Peter Skellern
  Peter Skellern
  Peter Skellern is an English singer-songwriter and pianist.-Career:Skellern attended Derby Grammar School and studied piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He later joined pop groups called 'Harlem' and 'March Hare'...
  
  
• "Honky Tonk Angel" - Cliff Richard
  Cliff Richard
  Sir Cliff Richard, OBE is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor, and philanthropist who has sold over an estimated 250 million records worldwide....
  
  
• "Horror Movie" - Skyhooks
• "How Does It Feel
  How Does It Feel? (song)
  "How Does It Feel" is a single from glam rock band Slade which appeared on the album Slade in Flame. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. The single was released in early 1975. The single only peaked at #15 in the UK which was the lowest charting since Slade's first...
  
  " - Slade
  Slade
  Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles...
  
  
• "How Long?" - Ace
  Ace (band)
  Ace were a British rock music band, who enjoyed moderate success in the 1970s. They are notable for their part in the early career of Paul Carrack, who later became famous as a solo artist, and as a member of several other groups...
  
  
• "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)
  How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)
  "How Long " is a funk classic by American family girl group the Pointer Sisters, released as the first single from their Steppin album in 1975. The song's mixture of funky R&B with the sisters' soulful harmonies and melodies helped make this song a standout early song in the group's catalog...
  
  " - Pointer Sisters
  Pointer Sisters
  The Pointer Sisters are an American pop/R&B recording act from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.The...
  
  
• "I Am Love" - The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
• "I Believe In Father Christmas
  I Believe in Father Christmas
  "I Believe In Father Christmas" is a song by Greg Lake , with lyrics by Peter Sinfield.Although it is often categorised as a Christmas song this was not Lake's intention...
  
  " - Greg Lake
  Greg Lake
  Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
  
  
• "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
  I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
  "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" was a hit single for Swedish pop group ABBA, and was their next major worldwide hit after Waterloo. It was the second single to be released from their ABBA album, and one of the last songs to be recorded for the album...
  
  " - ABBA
  ABBA
  ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
  
  
• "I Love Music
  I Love Music (song)
  "I Love Music" is a disco song written by Gamble and Huff and recorded by The O'Jays. It appeared on the group's 1975 album Family Reunion. The single version went to number one on the soul singles chart and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " - The O'Jays
  The O'Jays
  The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1963 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert , Walter Williams , William Powell , Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005...
  
  
• "I Only Have Eyes For You
  I Only Have Eyes for You
  "I Only Have Eyes for You" is a popular song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written in 1934 for the film Dames where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler....
  
  " - Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...
  
  
• "I Write the Songs
  I Write the Songs
  "I Write the Songs" is a popular song written by Bruce Johnston in 1975 and made famous by Barry Manilow. Manilow's version reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976 after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975...
  
  " - David Cassidy
  David Cassidy
  David Bruce Cassidy is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his role as the character of Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical/sitcom The Partridge Family. He was one of pop culture's most celebrated teen idols, enjoying a successful pop career in the 1970s, and...
  
  
• "If You Think You Know How To Love Me" - Smokie
  Smokie (band)
  Smokie is an English rock band from Bradford, Yorkshire who found success in Europe in the 1970s.-Early years:Originally called The Yen, then The Sphynx and later Essence, the band was formed in 1964 at St. Bede's Grammar School in Heaton, Bradford as The Yen. The Yen's first gig was at Birkenshaw...
  
  
• "I'm Not In Love
  I'm Not in Love
  "I'm Not in Love" is a song written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman of the English group 10cc, from the album The Original Soundtrack. The lyric reveals a narrator in denial about the title's ostensible theme.-The 10cc version:...
  
  " - 10cc
  10cc
  10cc are an English art rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians -- Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme -- who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the "10cc" name...
  
  
• "In Dulci Jubilo/On Horseback
  In Dulci Jubilo (Mike Oldfield)
  "In Dulci Jubilo" / "On Horseback" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1975 . The prominently festive single features an instrumental version of a Christmas carol, "In Dulci Jubilo", as well as the finale-song from Oldfield's Ommadawn album, "On Horseback".- Details :Mike Oldfield's...
  
  " - Mike Oldfield
  Mike Oldfield
  Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
  
  
• "In for a Penny
  In for a Penny (song)
  "In For a Penny" is a single from rock band Slade which appeared on the album Nobody's Fools. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. The single was released in 1975 and peaked at #11 in the UK, spending 8 weeks on the chart...
  
  " - Slade
  Slade
  Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles...
  
  
• "Island Girl
  Island Girl
  "Island Girl" is a song performed by Elton John that went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and number 14 in the UK in 1975.In the U.S. it was certified Gold on 12/4/1975 and Platinum on 9/13/1995 by the R.I.A.A...
  
  " - Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• "It's a Long Way to the Top" - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "It's a Miracle
  It's a Miracle (Barry Manilow song)
  "It's a Miracle" is a 1975 single by Barry Manilow and was the second release from his album, Barry Manilow II. "It's a Miracle" went to number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Manilow's second number one in a row on the Easy Listening chart, spending one week at number one in April 1975....
  
  " - Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana ."...
  
  
• "It's Been So Long" - George McCrae
  George McCrae
  George McCrae is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".-Early life and career:...
  
  
• "Jackie Blue
  Jackie Blue (song)
  "Jackie Blue" is a single by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils off their 1974 album It'll Shine When It Shines. The song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. The song was sung by group drummer Larry Lee....
  
  " - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  Ozark Mountain Daredevils
  The Ozark Mountain Daredevils are a Southern rock/country rock band formed in 1972 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. They are most widely known for their singles "If You Wanna Get To Heaven" in 1974 and "Jackie Blue" in 1975....
  
  
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.-Story line and song structure:...
  
  " - Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
  
• "Kometenmelodie 2" - Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
  
  
• "Lady" - Styx
  Styx (band)
  Styx is an American rock band that became famous for its albums from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Chicago band is known for melding the style of prog-rock with the power of hard rock guitar, strong ballads, and elements of American musical theater....
  
  
• "The Last Farewell
  The Last Farewell
  "The Last Farewell" is the title of a song from 1971 by the British-Kenyan folk singer Roger Whittaker. Whittaker hosted a radio programme in Great Britain in 1971, backed by a full orchestra with arrangements by Zack Lawrence. Whittaker is quoted as saying that "one of the ideas I had was to...
  
  " - Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker
  Roger Whittaker is an Anglo-Kenyan singer-songwriter and musician with worldwide record sales of over 55 million. His music can be described as easy listening. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability...
  
  
• "Let Me Be the One
  Let Me Be the One (Eurovision song)
  Let me Be The One was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975, written by Paul Curtis and performed in English by the band The Shadows....
  
  " - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• "Let the Music Play" - Barry White
  Barry White
  Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...
  
  
• "Life... Is For Living" - Sherbet
  Sherbet (band)
  Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...
  
  
• "Listen to What the Man Said" - Paul McCartney & Wings
  Wings (band)
  Wings were a British-American rock group formed in 1971 by Paul McCartney, Denny Laine and Linda McCartney that remained active until 1981....
  
  
• "Lonely People
  Lonely People
  "Lonely People" is a song written by the husband-and-wife team of Dan and Catherine Peek and performed by America. The track was the second release from America's 1974 album Holiday. "Lonely People" reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and was America's second number one on the Easy...
  
  " - America
  America (band)
  America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...
  
  
• "Long Tall Glasses" - Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s...
  
  
• "Love Hurts
  Love Hurts
  "Love Hurts" is the name of a song, written and composed by Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by The Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top 5 hit in 1975 by Jim Capaldi.The song was introduced...
  
  " - Jim Capaldi
  Jim Capaldi
  Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
  
  
• "Love Hurts" - Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
  
  
• "L-O-V-E (Love)
  L-O-V-E (Love)
  L-O-V-E is a 1975 R&B/pop single by Al Green. The single was from the LP "Al Green Is Love" and continued a string of number one R&B hits throughout the 1970s. "L-O-V-E was at the top spot on the R&B charts for two weeks and made it to thirteen on the pop singles chart...
  
  " - Al Green
  Al Green
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
  
  
• "Love Is the Drug
  Love Is the Drug
  "Love Is the Drug" is a 1975 single from Roxy Music . Taken from the album Siren it omits the gravel footstep sound effects at the start...
  
  " - Roxy Music
  Roxy Music
  Roxy Music was a British art rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera , Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson . Former members include Brian Eno , and Eddie Jobson...
  
  
• "Love Me, Love My Dog" - Peter Shelley
  Peter Shelley
  Peter Shelley is a British 1970s pop singer and songwriter who had UK hits with "Gee Baby" and "Love Me Love My Dog".-Career:Shelley entered the UK music industry in 1965 working initially as a song plugger with the music publisher, Chappell & Co...
  
  
• "Love Rollercoaster
  Love Rollercoaster
  "Love Rollercoaster" is a song by American funk/R&B band The Ohio Players, originally featured on their 1975 album Honey. The song was a hit upon its initial release, reaching the top of both the R&B and pop charts. It still sees wide airplay on classic funk and R&B stations...
  
  " - The Ohio Players
• "Love to Love You Baby
  Love to Love You Baby (song)
  "Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer released in 1975 . It became one of the first ever disco hits to also be released in an extended form.-Song information and original release:...
  
  " - Donna Summer
  Donna Summer
  LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
  
  
• "Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Harris
  Major Harris (singer)
  Major Harris is an American R&B singer, associated with the Philadelphia soul sound.-Career:...
  
  
• "Low Rider
  Low Rider
  "Low Rider" is a song written by the band War and appearing on their 1975 album Why Can't We Be Friends?. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number seven on the Pop Singles chart....
  
  " - War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
  
• "Lyin' Eyes
  Lyin' Eyes
  "Lyin' Eyes" is a song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey and recorded in 1975 by the American rock band Eagles, with Frey singing lead vocals. It was the second single from their One of These Nights album, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #8 on the US Country chart...
  
  " - Eagles
• "Magic
  Magic (Pilot song)
  "Magic" is a popular song from 1974, and was the first hit single for the Scottish band Pilot. It was written by Pilot's Dave Paton.It charted most successfully in Canada, where it reached #1, topping the RPM national singles chart on July 19, 1975, and received a gold certification...
  
  " - Pilot
  Pilot (band)
  Pilot was a pop rock musical group, formed during 1973 in Edinburgh, Scotland by the former Bay City Rollers members, David Paton and Billy Lyall.-Career:...
  
  
• "Mamma Mia
  Mamma Mia (song)
  "Mamma Mia" is a song from ABBA's 3rd album, ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The song "Mamma Mia" is a common song used in bands or orchestras...
  
  " - ABBA
  ABBA
  ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
  
  
• "Man on the Silver Mountain" - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
  Rainbow (band)
  Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
  
  
• "Matter of Time" - Sherbet
  Sherbet (band)
  Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...
  
  
• "Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....
  
  
• "Million Dollar Riff" - Skyhooks
• "Miracles
  Miracles (Jefferson Starship song)
  "Miracles" is a song written by Marty Balin and originally recorded by Jefferson Starship, appearing on their 1975 album Red Octopus."Miracles" peaked at #3 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the highest-charting single the band ever recorded under the name "Jefferson Starship,"...
  
  " - Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship
  Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...
  
  
• "Mr. Jaws
  Mr. Jaws
  Mr. Jaws is a novelty song by Dickie Goodman released on Cash Records in 1975.This record is a parody of the 1975 summer blockbuster film Jaws, with Goodman interviewing the shark , as well as the film's main characters, Brody, Hooper, and Quint...
  
  " - Dickie Goodman
  Dickie Goodman
  Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman was an American music producer.-Career:In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show...
  
  
• "Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean)" - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
  Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English rock band from the early 1970s. Their music covers a range of styles from pop to progressive rock. Over the years they have had five albums in the UK Albums Chart and twelve singles in the UK Singles Chart.-Career:...
  
  
• "My Little Town
  My Little Town
  "My Little Town" is a 1975 song by the American duo Simon & Garfunkel. It was written by Paul Simon, who produced the track along with Art Garfunkel and Phil Ramone...
  
  " - Simon & Garfunkel
• "Never Can Say Goodbye
  Never Can Say Goodbye
  "Never Can Say Goodbye" is a song written by Clifton Davis and originally recorded by The Jackson 5. Released as a single in 1971, it was one of the group's most successful songs...
  
  " - Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
  
  
• "The Newcastle Song
  The Newcastle Song
  "The Newcastle Song" was a 1975 hit for musician and comedian Bob Hudson. It poked fun at the working-class youth culture of the City of Newcastle in NSW. The song was recorded in front of a live audience in 1974....
  
  " - Bob Hudson
  Bob Hudson (Australian singer)
  Robert "Bob" Hudson is an Australian singer and radio presenter, his satirical narrative, "The Newcastle Song" topped the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for four weeks in 1975. The single version was an edit of the ten-minute live recording from the related album, Newcastle Song...
  
  
• "Nightingale" - Carole King
  Carole King
  Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
  
  
• "Nights on Broadway
  Nights on Broadway
  "Nights on Broadway" is a song by the Bee Gees for the Main Course album in 1975. The second single release from the album, it immediately followed their number-one hit "Jive Talkin'"....
  
  " - Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
  The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
  
  
• "No No Song
  No No Song
  Ringo Starr's cover of Hoyt Axton and David Jackson's "The No No Song" was included on his 1974 album Goodnight Vienna. It was a number-one hit in Canada and a number-three hit in the US. The song describes progressive attempts to sell Colombian marijuana, Spanish cocaine and Tennessean moonshine...
  
  " - Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  
• "No Woman No Cry" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers
  Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...
  
  
• "Now I'm Here
  Now I'm Here
  "Now I'm Here" is a song by the English rock band Queen. The sixth song on their third album, Sheer Heart Attack, it was written by lead guitarist Brian May while he was in hospital with hepatitis. The song is noted for its hard riff and vocal harmonies. In the UK, the song hit #11 on the charts...
  
  " - Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
  
• "Old Days
  Old Days
  "Old Days" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VIII , with lead vocals by Peter Cetera. The second single released from that album, it reached #5 on the U.S...
  
  " - Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
• "Once Bitten Twice Shy" - Ian Hunter
  Ian Hunter (singer)
  Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...
  
  
• "Once You Get Started" - Rufus
  Rufus (band)
  Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody."-Origins:...
  
  
• "Only Women Bleed
  Only Women Bleed
  "Only Women Bleed" is a song written by the musicians Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner. It is a ballad about a woman in an abusive marriage.It is one of Cooper's biggest hits, reaching #1 on the Canadian RPM national singles chart and #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1975. It is from...
  
  " - Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  
• "Only Yesterday
  Only Yesterday (song)
  "Only Yesterday" is a song recorded by The Carpenters in 1975. It was released on March 14, 1975, and was the Carpenters' last top-ten single in the United States. Composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, it peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the easy listening...
  
  " - The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
  
  
• "Our Day Will Come
  Our Day Will Come
  "Our Day Will Come" is a popular song composed by Bob Hilliard and Mort Garson which was a #1 hit in 1963 for Ruby & The Romantics.-Ruby & the Romantics:...
  
  " - Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons. He is well-known for his unusually powerful falsetto singing voice...
  
  
• "Out on the Floor" - Dobie Gray
  Dobie Gray
  Dobie Gray is an African American singer and songwriter, whose musical career has spanned soul, country, pop and musical theater...
  
  
• "Paloma Blanca
  Paloma Blanca
  Paloma Blanca, often called Una Paloma Blanca, is a 1975 song written by the Dutch musician George Baker and first recorded by his band The George Baker Selection. The single was a hit throughout Europe, and was taken from the group's fifth album of the same name.The song became a #1 hit on the U.S...
  
  " - George Baker Selection
• "Please Mr. Please
  Please Mr. Please
  "Please Mr. Please" is the title of a popular song from 1975 by the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John. The song was written by Bruce Welch and John Rostill, both members of British pop singer Cliff Richard's backing band, The Shadows. Welch had originally recorded the song himself in 1974 with...
  
  " - Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
  
  
• "Poetry Man
  Poetry Man
  "Poetry Man" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow. The song was written by Snow, produced by Dino Airali, and first appeared on her 1974 self-titled debut album. On American Top 40 in September 1980, Casey Kasem claimed that Phoebe Snow said that the song is about Jackson Browne...
  
  " - Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow was a fictional character created by Earnest Elmo Calkins to promote the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The advertising campaign, based on a live model, using impressionistic techniques and a fictional character, was one of the first of its kind.-The advertising...
  
  
• "Real Man" - Todd Rundgren
  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Todd Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings...
  
  
• "Remember What I Told You to Forget" - Tavares
  Tavares (band)
  Tavares are a successful American R&B, funk and soul music group, composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers from New Bedford, Massachusetts.-Band members:...
  
  
• "Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
  Maxine Nightingale
  Maxine Nightingale is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller "Right Back Where We Started From" Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952; Wembley, London) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in...
  
  
• "Rock and Roll All Nite
  Rock and Roll All Nite
  "Rock and Roll All Nite" is a song by Kiss, originally released on their 1975 album Dressed to Kill. It was released as the A-side of their fifth single, with the album track "Getaway." The studio version of the song peaked at No. 57 on the Billboard singles chart, besting the band's previous...
  
  " - KISS
  KISS (band)
  Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
  
  
• "Rockin' All Over the World
  Rockin' All Over the World (song)
  "Rockin' All Over the World" is a rock song by John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival. It made its debut on Fogerty's second solo album in 1975. Status Quo recorded their own, heavier arrangement of Fogerty's song for their 1977 album Rockin' All Over the World...
  
  " - John Fogerty
  John Fogerty
  John Cameron Fogerty is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival and as a #1 solo recording artist. Fogerty has a rare distinction of being named on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest...
  
  
• "Rockin' Chair
  Rockin' Chair (Gwen McCrae song)
  Rockin' Chair is a 1975 crossover single by Gwen McCrae. The single is not to be confused with Fats Domino's 1951 R&B hit, of the same name or that of Hoagy Carmichael, Rockin' Chair . "Rockin' Chair" was McCrae's sole entry into the top 10 on both the soul and pop charts. The single hit number...
  
  " - Gwen McCrae
  Gwen McCrae
  Gwen McCrae is an American R&B singer, best known for her March, 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".-Career:...
  
  
• "Rocky" - Austin Roberts
  Austin Roberts (singer)
  Austin Roberts is an American singer and songwriter. His most successful recording was 1975's "Rocky"; a transatlantic Top 40 hit single.-Early years:...
  
  
• "Roll on Down the Highway" - Bachman–Turner Overdrive
• "Roll Over Lay Down" - Status Quo
• "Run, Billy, Run" - The Shadows
  The Shadows
  The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
  
  
• "Run Joey Run" - David Geddes
• "Saturday Night
  Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers song)
  "Saturday Night" is the title of a song recorded by the Scottish band Bay City Rollers. It was written and produced by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter. The tune is an upbeat pop-rock number with a memorable hook: the word "Saturday" spelled out in a rhythmic chant.An early version of the song was...
  
  " - Bay City Rollers
  Bay City Rollers
  The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at...
  
  
• "Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd
  Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...
  
  
• "Scotch on the Rocks" - Band of the Black Watch
• "Send in the Clowns
  Send in the Clowns
  "Send in the Clowns" is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act II in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she...
  
  " - Judy Collins
  Judy Collins
  Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...
  
  
• "Shame, Shame, Shame
  Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song)
  "Shame, Shame, Shame" is a 1974 hit song written by Sylvia Robinson and performed by American disco band Shirley & Company. The single hit number one on the soul singles chart for one week, and number one on the disco/dance charts for four weeks.The track was one of the first international disco...
  
  " - Shirley & Company
  Shirley & Company
  Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman , Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver....
  
  
• "Shaving Cream
  Shaving Cream (song)
  "Shaving Cream" is a song written by Benny Bell in 1946, and originally sung by Paul Wynn. It is a novelty song which uses innuendo with a rhyme scheme that implies that the last word in each verse is "shit", while the refrain begins with the words "Shaving Cream," with exaggerated emphasis on the...
  
  " - Benny Bell
  Benny Bell
  Benny Bell was an American singer-songwriter who reached popularity in the 1940s, with a comeback in the 1970s. He is particularly remembered for his risqué but cheerfully optimistic songs.-Career:Benny Bell was born to an immigrant Jewish family in New York City...
  
  
• "She Does It Right
  She Does It Right
  "She Does It Right" is a song by the band Dr. Feelgood. Recorded in 1974 it appeared on their debut album, Down by the Jetty."She Does It Right" was also issued as a single in the UK in March 1975. It failed to reach the UK Singles Chart. Written by Wilko Johnson, and produced by Vic Maile, the...
  
  " - Dr. Feelgood
  Dr. Feelgood (band)
  Dr. Feelgood are a British pub rock band formed in 1971. The band's name derives from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who is willing to overprescribe drugs. It is also a reference to a 1962 record by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman called "Dr Feel-Good", which...
  
  
• "Sing a Song
  Sing a Song (song)
  "Sing a Song" is a hit song by R&B/funk band, Earth, Wind & Fire, which was written by Maurice White and Al McKay. It was released in 1975 and included on the band's 1975 double-live album, Gratitude. "Sing a Song" spent two weeks at number one on the R&B singles chart in January 1976, and it was...
  
  " - Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...
  
  
• "Sky High
  Sky High (song)
  "Sky High" is the name of a 1975 single by British pop music group, Jigsaw. The song, the main title theme to the film entitled The Man from Hong Kong, was a world-wide hit in the latter part of 1975, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and #9 in the UK Singles Chart.Two...
  
  " - Jigsaw
  Jigsaw (band)
  Jigsaw were an English pop music group, fronted by the singer-songwriter duo of Clive Scott and Des Dyer. In Australia the group was called "British Jigsaw" due to the existence of a local band of the same name.-Overview:...
  
  
• "Slow Ride
  Slow Ride
  "Slow Ride" is the title of a song composed by "Lonesome" Dave Peverett and recorded by the British rock band Foghat, appearing on their fifth album Fool for the City . This was Foghat's top single, peaking at number 20. It also appears on Foghat Live , which was their best selling album at over...
  
  " - Foghat
  Foghat
  Foghat are a British rock band that had their peak success in the mid- to late-1970s. Their style can be described as "blues-rock," or boogie-rock dominated by electric and electric slide guitar. The band has achieved five gold records...
  
  
• "The Snake" - Al Wilson
  Al Wilson (singer)
  Al Wilson was an American soul singer best known for the million-selling #1 hit, "Show and Tell". He is also remembered for his Northern soul anthem, "The Snake".-Career:...
  
  
• "Solitaire" - The Carpenters
  The Carpenters
  Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...
  
  
• "Someone Saved My Life Tonight
  Someone Saved My Life Tonight
  "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is an Elton John song from his album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. John originally wrote and recorded it in A-flat, though after having vocal cord surgery in 1987 that resulted in the loss of his falsetto range, John began performing the song in a...
  
  " - Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
• "SOS
  SOS (ABBA song)
  Agnetha Fältskog's version was the second single from her fifth Swedish solo-album Elva kvinnor i ett hus . It was the only song from this album not to have been composed by Fältskog herself....
  
  " - ABBA
  ABBA
  ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
  
  
• "Soul Stripper" - AC/DC
  AC/DC
  AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
  
  
• "Spirit in the Night
  Spirit in the Night
  "Spirit in the Night" is a song written and originally recorded by New Jersey based singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen for his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. . It was also the second single released from the album...
  
  " - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  Manfred Mann's Earth Band
  Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a British progressive rock group formed in 1971 by Manfred Mann.-Formation:Having started in the 1960s with a British band that had such hits as "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" and "The Mighty Quinn", then moving on to Jazz Fusion with Manfred Mann's Chapter Three, Manfred's third...
  
  
• "Squeeze Box
  Squeeze Box (The Who song)
  *The song is covered by English squeezebox players John Kirkpatrick and Chris Parkinson on their album Sultans of Squeeze.*Roxy Blue did a version on their 1992 album Want some?...
  
  " - The Who
  The Who
  The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...
  
  
• "Stand by Me
  Stand by Me (song)
  "Stand by Me" is the title of a song originally performed by Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, based on the spiritual "Lord Stand by Me,", plus two lines rooted in Psalms 46:2-3...
  
  " - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
  
  
• "Strange Magic
  Strange Magic
  For the greatest hits collection of the same name, see Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra."Strange Magic" is a song written and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra. It can be found on the 1975 Face the Music LP....
  
  " - Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
  
  
• "Summer Love
  Summer Love (Sherbet song)
  "Summer Love" was the first national number one hit in Australia for Sherbet. They had had a string of top 40 hits in the early 70s with "Can You Feel It Baby" being the first in 1971. "Summer Love" spent 2 weeks at number one in mid 1975 on the Australian charts. The song was also promoted on the...
  
  " - Sherbet
  Sherbet (band)
  Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...
  
  
• "Summertime City" - Mike Batt
  Mike Batt
  Michael Philip "Mike" Batt is a British songwriter, musician, producer and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry...
  
   with the New Edition
• "Super Natural Thing" - Ben E. King
  Ben E. King
  Benjamin Earl King , better known as Ben E. King, is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", a U.S...
  
  
• "Swearin' To God" - Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons. He is well-known for his unusually powerful falsetto singing voice...
  
  
• "Sweet Emotion
  Sweet Emotion
  "Sweet Emotion" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith, released by Columbia Records in April 1975 on the album Toys in the Attic and was released as a single a month later on May 19th . The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for...
  
  " - Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  
• "Sweet Surrender
  Sweet Surrender (John Denver song)
  "Sweet Surrender" is the title of a popular song by the American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally recorded for his 1974 album Back Home Again, but was chosen as the lead single from the concert album An Evening with John Denver. "Sweet Surrender" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " - John Denver
  John Denver
  Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...
  
  
• "Sweet Thing
  Sweet Thing (Chaka Khan song)
  "Sweet Thing" is a soul single that was first a hit with Rufus featuring Chaka Khan when they recorded the song in 1975 eventually reaching number-one on the R&B singles chart and number five on the pop chart...
  
  " - Rufus
  Rufus (band)
  Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody."-Origins:...
  
  
• "Tangled Up in Blue
  Tangled Up in Blue
  "Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Released as a single, it reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100...
  
  " - Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  
• "Thanks for the Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)
  Thanks for the Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)
  "Thanks for the Memory " is a single from rock band Slade. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. The single was released in 1975 and peaked at #7 in the UK, spending 7 weeks on the chart and only one week in the top 10. This became Slade's last top ten hit for 6 years...
  
  " - Slade
  Slade
  Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles...
  
  
• "That's the Way (I Like It)
  That's the Way (I Like It)
  "That's the Way " is a song written by H.W. Casey and Richard Finch, and recorded and released in 1975 by KC and the Sunshine Band for their eponymous second album...
  
  " - KC and the Sunshine Band
  KC and the Sunshine Band
  KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. Founded in 1973 in Miami, Florida, their style has included funk, R&B, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way ", " Shake Your Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", "Keep It Comin' Love", "Get Down Tonight", "Give...
  
  
• "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
  Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
  "Theme from Mahogany " is a song written by Michael Masser and Gerald Goffin, and recorded by American singer Diana Ross as the theme to the 1975 Motown/Paramount film Mahogany...
  
  " - Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
• "There Goes Another Love Song" - The Outlaws
• "There Goes My First Love" - The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
  
• "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)
  They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)
  "Games People Play", also known as "They Just Can't Stop It the ", is a song recorded by American R&B vocal group The Spinners...
  
  " - The Spinners
• "Third Rate Romance" - Amazing Rhythm Aces
  Amazing Rhythm Aces
  The Amazing Rhythm Aces are an American country rock group. The band has characterized their music as "American Music" or "Roots Music" — rock, country, blues, R&B, folk, reggae and Latino...
  
  
• "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" - Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
  
• "Too Much Rock 'N' Roll" - Rabbit
  Rabbit (band)
  Rabbit, Originally "The Cherries" was an Australian hard rock band from Newcastle, Australia. The band was formed in 1973 by Mark Tinson , Phil Screen and Jim Porteus . Vocalist Greg Douglas joined in 1974 and was replaced in October of that year by Dave Evans, formerly of AC/DC...
  
  
• "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (song)
  "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. In the song the singer expresses his love for June who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The chorus is:...
  
  " - Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
  
   with The Avalon Boys
• "Una Paloma Blanca
  Paloma Blanca
  Paloma Blanca, often called Una Paloma Blanca, is a 1975 song written by the Dutch musician George Baker and first recorded by his band The George Baker Selection. The single was a hit throughout Europe, and was taken from the group's fifth album of the same name.The song became a #1 hit on the U.S...
  
  " - Jonathan King
  Jonathan King
  Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two and The Booker Prize Winner , and Beware the Monkey Man , and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far .King first came to prominence as an...
  
  
• "Up in a Puff of Smoke" - Polly Brown
  Polly Brown
  Polly Brown is an English singer. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively "That Same Old Feeling" and "Honey Honey" - Brown had an international solo hit in 1975 with "Up in a Puff of Smoke".-Biography:Brown recorded with...
  
  
• "Venus and Mars/Rockshow" - Paul McCartney & Wings
  Wings (band)
  Wings were a British-American rock group formed in 1971 by Paul McCartney, Denny Laine and Linda McCartney that remained active until 1981....
  
  
• "Walk Away From Love" - David Ruffin
  David Ruffin
  Davis Eli "David" Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968...
  
  
• "Walk This Way
  Walk This Way
  "Walk This Way" is a song by American hard rock group Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the 1975 album Toys in the Attic. It peaked at Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit...
  
  " - Aerosmith
  Aerosmith
  Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
  
  
• "Walking in Rhythm
  Walking in Rhythm
  "Walking in Rhythm" is a smooth rhythm and blues & jazz song by The Blackbyrds. The song tells the tale of a man who is passionately desperate to get back home to his female companion. The song charted in March 1975 and reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100. The tune was similarly well...
  
  " - The Blackbyrds
  The Blackbyrds
  The Blackbyrds were an American rhythm and blues and jazz-funk fusion group, formed in Washington, D.C. in 1973.-History:The group was inspired by trumpeter Donald Byrd and featured some of his Howard University students: Kevin Toney , Keith Killgo , Joe Hall , Allan C. Barnes , and Barney Perry...
  
  
• "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
  Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
  "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American country and pop song recorded by Freddy Fender. It is considered by many to belong to the swamp pop idiom of south Louisiana and southeast Texas that had such a major musical impact on Fender.-Song history:...
  
  " - Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender , born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados...
  
  
• "The Way I Want to Touch You" - Captain & Tennille
  Captain & Tennille
  Captain & Tennille are American pop music recording artists who achieved chart success from 1975 to 1980. The duo consists of husband and wife duo "Captain" Daryl Dragon , and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille . They are best known for their singles "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Do That to Me...
  
  
• "The Way We Were
  The Way We Were
  The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic dramatic film co-starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by Arthur Laurents was based on his college days at Cornell University and his experiences with the House Un-American Activities Committee.A box...
  
  " - Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
  
  
• "Welcome to the Machine
  Welcome to the Machine
  "Welcome to the Machine" is the second song on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. It is notable for its use of heavily processed synthesizers and guitars, as well as a wide and varied range of tape effects.-Theme:...
  
  " - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
  
• "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - Esther Phillips
  Esther Phillips
  Esther Phillips was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.-Early life:...
  
  
• "What Am I Gonna Do With You?" - Barry White
  Barry White
  Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...
  
  
• "(What's the Word?) Johannesburg" - Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
  
• "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
  When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease
  "When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" is a track on the Roy Harper album HQ. Released as a single twice, in 1975 and 1978, it is possibly Roy's best-known song. The song captures the atmosphere of a village cricket match and is an elegy to a previous age...
  
  " - Roy Harper
  Roy Harper
  Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...
  
  
• "When Will I Be Loved
  When Will I Be Loved (song)
  "When Will I Be Loved" is a popular song, written by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers and a #8 hit single for that duo in the summer of 1960. The track had been recorded in 1959 while the Everly Brothers were contracted to Cadence Records; by 1960 they had moved to Warner Brothers and recording...
  
  " - Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
  
• "Who Loves You
  Who Loves You
  Who Loves You is a 1975 album by The Four Seasons which introduced the new Four Seasons: John Paiva , Don Ciccone , Lee Shapiro and Gerry Polci...
  
  " - The Four Seasons
• "Why Can't We Be Friends" - War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
  
• "Wildfire
  Wildfire (song)
  "Wildfire" is the title of a song written by Michael Murphey and Larry Cansler. It was originally recorded by American country artist Murphey , and appears on his 1975 album Blue Sky - Night Thunder....
  
  " - Michael Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...
  
  
• "W*O*L*D" - Harry Chapin
  Harry Chapin
  Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer-songwriter best known in particular for his folk rock songs including "Taxi", "W*O*L*D", and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle". Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger; he was a key player in the creation of the...
  
  
• "You Are So Beautiful
  You Are So Beautiful
  "You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys. It was first recorded by Preston and made popular in a version by Joe Cocker....
  
  " - Joe Cocker
  Joe Cocker
  John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...
  
  
• "You Sexy Thing
  You Sexy Thing
  "You Sexy Thing" is a song recorded by the British group, Hot Chocolate. It was written by Hot Chocolate's lead singer Errol Brown, and produced by Mickie Most. It reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975, and number 3 in the US Pop charts a year later...
  
  " - Hot Chocolate
• "Young Americans
  Young Americans (song)
  "Young Americans" is a single by English singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 1975. It is included in the album with the same name.-History:...
  
  " - David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  
• "You're My Best Friend" - Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...