1973 Top Hits

"Love Isn't Easy" - ABBA
"Little Saint Nick" - The Beach Boys
"Life On Mars" - David Bowie
"Sorrow" - David Bowie
"Lamplight" - David Essex
"Angie " - The Rolling Stones
"If You Don't Know Me By Now" - Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" - The Rolling Stones
"Loves Me Like a Rock" - Paul Simon (with The Dixie Hummingbirds)
"Kodachrome" - Paul Simon
"Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - Paul Simon
"Whisky In The Jar" - Thin Lizzy
"The Cisco Kid" - War
"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" - Stevie Wonder
"Roll Over Beethoven" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
"Helen Wheels" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Live and Let Die" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"All The Way From Memphis" - Mott The Hoople
"Touch Me in the Morning" - Diana Ross
"Get Up Stand Up" - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"5:15" - The Who
"Relay" - The Who
"Frankenstein" - Edgar Winter Group
"Ramblin' Man" - Allman Brothers Band
"Radar Love" - Golden Earring
"Let's Get It On" - Marvin Gaye
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon around the Old Oak Tree" - Tony Orlando & Dawn
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - Elton John
"Over the Hills and Far Away" - Led Zeppelin
"D'yer Mak'er" - Led Zeppelin
"I'm Just A Singer(In A Rock And Roll Band)" - The Moody Blues
"Keep Yourself Alive" - Queen
"Nutbush City Limits" - Ike and Tina Turner

*not a complete list of all hits from 1973*

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Musicians born in 1973

January 10 - Aerle Taree, Arrested Development
April 4 - Kelly Price
April 29 - Mike Hogan, The Cranberries
May 17 - Joshua Homme, guitarist and vocalist for Queens of the Stone Age
June 9 - Wes Scantlin, Puddle Of Mudd
June 26 - Gretchen Wilson
July 29 - Wanya Morris, Boyz II Men
Aug. 8 - Scott Stapp, Creed
Nov. 3 - Mick Thompson, Slipknot guitarist
Nov. 9 - Nick Lachey, 98 Degrees
Nov. 11 - Jason White, Greenday guitarist
Nov. 28 - Jade Puget, AFI guitarist
Dec. 8 - Corey Taylor, Slipknot lead vocalist

Misicians who died in 1973

March 5 - Michael Jeffrey, Jimi Hendrix's personal manager
March 8 - Ron Pigpen McKernan, Grateful Dead
July 14 - Clarence White, guitarist The Byrds
Sept 19 - Gram Parsons, flying burrito brothers
Sept 20 - Jim Croce
Dec 20 - Bobby Darin

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Musical Events of 1973

January 9 - Mick Jagger's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust, putting an abrupt end to The Rolling Stones' plans to tour the Orient.
January 14 - Elvis Presley's Aloha From Hawaii television special is seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewers
January 14 - Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is arrested for drug possession in California.
January 18 - The Rolling Stones benefit concert for Nicaraguan earthquake victims raises over $350,000. (Mick Jagger adds $150,000 of his own money to the total in May).
January 30- KISS performs their first concert, at the Coventary Club in Queens.
March 8 - Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm.
March 24 - Lou Reed is bitten by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, New York.
April 3 - Capitol Records releases two greatest hits collections, The Beatles /1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970, commonly referred to as the Red and Blue albums.
April 16 - Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul McCartney airs. The special includes performances by McCartney and Wings.
May 25 - Mike Oldfield releases Tubular Bells
July 3 - David Bowie 'retires' his stage persona 'Ziggy Stardust' in front of a shocked audience at the Hammersmith Odeon at the end of his British tour.
Journey forms
KISS forms
AC/DC forms
The Open Mind disbands

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To kick off the year 1974, I thought I would share some UK statistics and some USA statistics

What did things cost in 1974?

USA:

average house~$34,900.00
new car~$3,700.00
Gallon of Gas~$0.55
Average income~$13,900.00

UK:

average house~$10,900
Gallon of Gas~$0.42
new car~$2,400
average income~$10,300

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1974

Album Releases

Waterloo - ABBA
Bad Company - Bad Company
Endless Summer - Beach Boys
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
David Live - David Bowie
For Everyman - Jackson Browne
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
Greatest Hits - Alice Cooper
Burn - Deep Purple
What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel - Grateful Dead
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Rocka Rolla - Judas Priest
Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat
Prounounced Leh-Nerd-Skin-Nerd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Queen II - Queen
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Todd - Todd Rundgren
Rush - Rush
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
Nightlife - Thin Lizzy
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
Relayer - Yes
On The Beach - Neil Young
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa


*not a list of ALL album releases*

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Top Hits of 1974

"Waterloo" - ABBA
"Honey, Honey" - ABBA
"Ring Ring" - ABBA
"How Long" - Ace
"Midnight Rider" - Gregg Allman
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"Tin Man" - America
"Takin' Care Of Business" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"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
"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
"I Shot The Sheriff" - Eric Clapton
"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
"Already Gone" - The Eagles
"Best Of My Love" - The Eagles
"Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Gonna Make You A Star" -David Es***
"Counting Out Time" - Genesis
"I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe" - Genesis
"Seasons in the Sun" - Terry Jacks
"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" - Elton John
"The ***** Is Back" - Elton John
"Queen Of Clubs" - KC and the Sunshine Band
"Jungle Boogie" - Kool and the Gang
"Sweet Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Killer Queen" - Queen
"Money" - Pink Floyd
"It's Only Rock And Roll" - The Rolling Stones
"Samba Pa Ti" - Santana
"Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Stevie Wonder
"He's Misstra Know It All" - Stevie Wonder
"Walk On" - Neil Young
"(You're) Having My Baby" Paul Anka & Odia Coates

*not a complete list of all the top hits*

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I love this thread, I'm sorry I don't post, I just like reading, I really don't have much to say about it.

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I get a lot of music from this thread also... Songs I know from the radio (I love "radio nostalgie" or in eng: radio nostalgic... ) but I do not know by name..

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