Editing 1973 in music (section)

===January–April===
*[[January 8]] – British Rail authorities restrict [[Pipe Major]] Gordon Speirs to playing his [[bagpipes]] just one minute in every fifteen on [[Liverpool Street station]], London, on grounds that his playing (part of a holiday campaign by the [[Scottish Tourist Board]]) "interferes with station business".<ref>Anon., "Pipe Down, Rail Chiefs Tell Major", ''The Times'' issue 58676 (January 9, 1973)</ref>
*[[January 9]] – [[Mick Jagger]]'s request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug conviction, putting an abrupt end to [[The Rolling Stones]]' plans to perform in Japan during their forthcoming tour.
*[[January 13]] - [[The Sweet]] release "[[Block Buster!]]", their only number one hit in the UK. It stays at the top of the charts for 5 weeks. This is one of the first Glam hits of the decade. The Sweet follow this up with 3 straight number 2 singles:<ref>{{Cite web |title=SWEET {{!}} full Official Chart History {{!}} Official Charts Company |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/14266/sweet/ |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=www.officialcharts.com}}</ref> "[[Hell Raiser (The Sweet song)|Hell Raiser]]", "[[The Ballroom Blitz]]" and "Teenage Rampage".
*[[January 14]]
**<!--January 14-->[[Elvis Presley]]'s ''[[Aloha From Hawaii|Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite]]'' television special is broadcast in over 40 countries around the world.
**<!--January 14-->[[Grateful Dead]] bassist [[Phil Lesh]] is arrested for drug possession at his [[Marin County]] home.
*[[January 18]] – [[The Rolling Stones]]' [[benefit concert]] for [[1972 Nicaragua earthquake|Nicaraguan earthquake]] victims raises over $350,000. On December 22, 1972, an earthquake destroyed [[Managua]], the capital of Nicaragua.
*[[January 21]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] open their [[The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973|Pacific tour]] of Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]].
*[[January 30]] – [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] perform their first concert, at the Coventry Club in [[Queens]], New York City, United States.
*[[February 2]] – ''[[The Midnight Special (TV series)|The Midnight Special]]'' makes its début as a regular series on US TV channel [[NBC]]. [[Helen Reddy]] is the featured artist.<ref>{{cite web|author=TV.com|url=http://www.tv.com/the-midnight-special/show/2974/summary.html|title=The Midnight Special|publisher=TV.com|access-date=2013-09-22|archive-date=August 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812075146/http://www.tv.com/the-midnight-special/show/2974/summary.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[February 14]] – [[David Bowie]] collapses from exhaustion after a performance at New York's [[Madison Square Garden]].
*[[February 18]] – The ''[[King Biscuit Flower Hour]]'' is first broadcast with performances by [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]], [[The Mahavishnu Orchestra]], and new artist [[Bruce Springsteen]].
*[[March 1]]
**<!--March 1-->[[Leonard Bernstein]] conducts [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s [[Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)|Violin Concerto]] for the first time in his career, with soloist [[Isaac Stern]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]] Orchestra.
**<!--March 1-->The [[Joffrey Ballet]]'s ''Deuce Coupe Ballet'' opens. The ballet is set entirely to music by [[The Beach Boys]].
**<!--March 1-->[[Pink Floyd]] releases ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'', which goes on to become one of the [[List of best-selling albums worldwide|best-selling albums of all time]]. The album debuts on the Billboard 200 on March 17, reaches #1 on April 28, and eventually logs the all-time record of 741 weeks on that chart. Sleeve design is by [[Hipgnosis]].
*[[March 5]] – [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s former personal manager, [[Michael Jeffery (manager)|Michael Jeffery]], is killed in a plane crash while travelling from Majorca to England; no passengers survive.
*[[March 6]] – The [[New York City|New York]] Office of the US Immigration Department cancels [[John Lennon]]'s visa extension five days after granting it.
*[[March 7]] – The director of talent acquisition at [[Columbia Records]], [[John H. Hammond]], suffers a non-fatal heart attack following a performance by one of his most recent finds, [[Bruce Springsteen]].
*[[March 8]] – [[Paul McCartney]] is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] outside his Scottish farm.<ref>{{cite book|last=Harry|first=Bill|title=The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia|year=2002|publisher=Virgin|isbn=978-0-7535-0716-2|pages=300–307}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] – The singers [[Stephen Stills]] and [[Véronique Sanson]] are married near [[Guildford]], England.
*[[March 24]] – [[Lou Reed]] is bitten on the buttocks by a fan during a concert in [[Buffalo, New York]].
*[[April 2]] – [[Capitol Records]] releases two collections of [[The Beatles]]' greatest hits, ''[[The Beatles 1962-1966]]'' and ''[[The Beatles 1967-1970]]'' (commonly referred to as the "Red Album" and the "Blue Album", respectively).
*[[April 7]] – In [[Luxembourg City]], the 18th [[Eurovision Song Contest 1973|Eurovision Song Contest]] is won by [[Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest|Luxembourg]] for the second consecutive year, this time with "[[Tu te reconnaîtras]]", sung by [[Anne-Marie David]].  [[Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest|Spain]] finish in second place with "[[Eres tú (Mocedades song)|Eres Tú]]", sung by [[Mocedades]]; the [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|United Kingdom]] finish third with [[Cliff Richard]] singing "[[Power to All Our Friends]]". The top three placed songs become international hits.
*[[April 8]] – Opening of the first La Rochelle Festival of Contemporary Music, under the direction of Claude Samuel. Featured composers include [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] and [[Iannis Xenakis]]
*[[April 15]] – Tenth [[Royan Festival|Royan Festival of International Contemporary Art]] begins, including concerts featuring music by  [[Jean Barraqué]] and [[Horațiu Rădulescu]], amongst others.
*[[April 16]] – [[Paul McCartney]]'s first solo television special, ''[[James Paul McCartney (TV special)|James Paul McCartney]]'', airs on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. The special includes performances by McCartney and [[Wings (band)|Wings]].
*[[April 18]] – Violinist [[Jascha Heifetz]] deposits parts from his prized [[Guarnerius]] violin in the newly poured wet concrete of the foundation for the new Virginia Ramo Hall of Music, under construction at the [[University of Southern California]], United States, in order to ensure the building will be "in tune", and to bring luck.