1974 in music

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Published popular music
5 Classical music
6 Opera
7 Musical theater
8 Musical films
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Awards

Events

February 10 – record producer Phil Spector is badly injured in a car accident. Details of the accident are kept secret.
February 12 – New York's legendary rock club, The Bottom Line, opens in Greenwich Village.
February 14 – The Captain & Tennille are married in Virginia City, Nevada.
February 18 – Yes sells out the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden, without a bit of advertising for the show.
February 20 – Cher files for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Sonny Bono.
March 12 – John Lennon is involved in an altercation with a photographer outside the Troubador club in Los Angeles, California. Lennon and friend Harry Nilsson had been heckling comedian Tommy Smothers and were forced to leave the club.
April 6 – 200,000 music fans attend The California Jam rock festival. Artists performing at the event include Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Black Oak Arkansas, and the Eagles.
April 6 – ABBA win the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, kickstarting their stellar international career.
April 25 – Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, is found dead in her Hollywood, California apartment from an apparent heroin overdose.
August 7 – Peter Wolf, lead singer of the J. Geils Band, marries actress Faye Dunaway.
Patti Smith releases her debut recording, "Hey Joe", which many consider to be the first punk rock single.
Lord Shorty's Endless Vibrations is the first soca LP and the first major soca hit worldwide.
Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis and begins solo career.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is performed for the first time.
Rover Thomas claims to have been visited in a dream by a deceased friend near Warmun, Australia and receives the Krill Krill song cycle.
Dino Martin, singer and son of Dean Martin, is arrested on suspicion of possession and sale of two machine guns.
Journey signs to Columbia Records.
Talking Heads forms.
Japan forms.
Firefall forms.
Daniel Amos forms out of the remnants of Jubal's Last Band.
The Ramones form.
Twenty years after it was recorded, "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets returns to the Billboard Top 40, after it gains renewed popularity from its use in the film American Graffiti and the TV series Happy Days.

Albums released

Waterloo – ABBA
High Voltage – AC/DC
Bad Company – Bad Company
Endless Summer – Beach Boys
Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
David Live – David Bowie
For Everyman – Jackson Browne
The Singles 1969–1973 – Carpenters
461 Ocean Boulevard – Eric Clapton
Greatest Hits – Alice Cooper
Olympia 74 – Dalida
Manuel – Dalida
Burn – Deep Purple
7-Tease – Donovan
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits – The Doobie Brothers
Here Come The Warm Jets – Brian Eno
Let's Get It On – Marvin Gaye
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis
Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel – Grateful Dead
Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock
Lady In Autumn – Billie Holiday
Great Balls Of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
Feats Don't Fail Me Now – Little Feat
Prounounced Leh-Nerd-Skin-Nerd – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Court And Spark – Joni Mitchell
It's Too Late To Stop Now – Van Morrison
Veedon Fleece – Van Morrison
Good Old Boys – Randy Newman
Hergest Ridge – Mike Oldfield
Sneakin' Sally Through The Alle – Robert Palmer
Charlie Parker On Dial – Charlie Parker
Grievous Angel – Gram Parsons
Queen II – Queen
Sheer Heart Attack – Queen
Love Song For Jeffrey – Helen Reddy
Free And Easy – Helen Reddy
Rock And Roll Animal – Lou Reed
Country Life – Roxy Music
Todd – Todd Rundgren
Rush – Rush
Röda Kapellet – Röda Kapellet
Kimono My House – Sparks
Pretzel Logic – Steely Dan
Crime Of The Century – Supertramp
Phaedra – Tangerine Dream
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight – Richard and Linda Thompson
Phenonmenon – UFO
1969: The Velvet Underground Live – The Velvet Underground
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe – Barry White
Fulfillingness' First Finale – Stevie Wonder
On The Beach – Neil Young
Apostrophe – Frank Zappa

Top hits on record

"Waterloo" – ABBA
"Honey, Honey" – ABBA
"Slipstream" – Sherbet
"Silvery Moon" – Sherbet
"How Long" – Ace
"Midnight Rider" – Gregg Allman
"Jessica" – Allman Brothers Band
"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" – Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"Can't Get Enough" – Bad Company
"Shang-A-Lang" – Bay City Rollers
"California Saga(EP)" – The Beach Boys
"Diamond Dogs" – David Bowie
"Rebel Rebel" – David Bowie
"Rock And Roll Suicide" – David Bowie
"Gigi L'Amoroso" – Dalida
"Anima Mia" – Dalida
"Ta Femme" – Dalida
"Band on the Run" – Paul McCartney & Wings
"Jet" – Paul McCartney and Wings
"Junior's Farm" – Paul McCartney & Wings
"Smokin' In The Boys Room" – Brownsville Station
"Mr.Soft" – Cockney Rebel
"Machine Gun" – The Commodores
"Billy, Don't Be a Hero" – Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
"China Grove" – The Doobie Brothers
"Listen To The Music" – The Doobie Brothers
"Long Train Running" – The Doobie Brothers
"Kung Fu Fighting" – Carl Douglas
"Kissin' In The Back Row Of The Movies" – The Drifters
"Already Gone" – The Eagles
"Best Of My Love" – The Eagles
"Beach Baby" – First Class
"I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe" – Genesis
"Summer Breeze" – The Isley Brothers
"Seasons in the Sun" – Terry Jacks
"Tiny Dancer" – Elton John
"Queen Of Clubs" – KC and the Sunshine Band
"The Bump" – Kenny
"Jungle Boogie" – Kool and the Gang
"Whatever Gets You Through The Night" – John Lennon
"Love's Theme" – Love Unlimited Orchestra
"The Man Who Sold The World" – Lulu
"Sweet Home Alabama" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"The Love I Lost" – Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
"Bad Motor Scooter" – Montrose
"Tiger Feet" – Mud
"Midnight At The Oasis" – Maria Muldaur
"I Honestly Love You" – Olivia Newton-John
"Devil Gate Drive" – Suzi Quatro
"Killer Queen" – Queen
"Magic" – Pilot
"Money" – Pink Floyd
"Caroline Says" – Lou Reed
"It's Only Rock And Roll" – The Rolling Stones
"Wild Horses" – The Rolling Stones
"Sugar Baby Love" – The Rubettes
"Samba Pa Ti" – Santana
"This Town's Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" – Sparks
"Down Down" – Status Quo
"Another Saturday Night" – Cat Stevens
"Oh Very Young" – Cat Stevens
"Dirty Old Man" – The Three Degrees
"Phil Spector's Christmas Single" – Various Artists
"You're The First The Last My Everything" – Barry White
"Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" – Stevie Wonder
"Walk On" – Neil Young
"(You're) Having My Baby" Paul Anka & Odia Coates

Published popular music

"Annie's Song" w.m. John Denver
"Happy Days" w. Norman Gimbel m. Charles Fox from the TV series Happy Days
"I Honestly Love You" w.m. Peter Allen & Jeff Barry
"I Won't Send Roses" w.m. Jerry Herman from the musical Mack & Mabel
"I've Got The Music In Me" w.m. Bias Boshell
"Midnight At The Oasis" w.m. David Nichtern
"Murder On The Orient Express" m. Richard Rodney Bennett from the film Murder On The Orient Express
"No Goodbyes" w.m. Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman from the musical Over Here
"She" w. Herbert Kretzmer m. Charles Aznavour
"Southern Nights" w.m. Allen Toussaint
"Sunshine On My Shoulder" w.m. John Denver, Richard Kniss & Michael Taylor
"Tap Your Troubles Away" w.m. Jerry Herman from the musical Mack & Mabel
"(You're) Having My Baby" w.m. Paul Anka