Editing 1973 in music (section)

===May–August===
*[[May 4]] – [[July 29]] – [[Led Zeppelin]] embarks on a tour of the United States, during which they set the record for highest attendance for a concert, 56,800, at the Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.  The record was previously held by [[The Beatles]]. Performances for the movie ''[[The Song Remains the Same (film)|The Song Remains the Same]]'' are also filmed.
*[[May 9]] – [[Mick Jagger]] adds $150,000 of his own money to the $350,000 raised by [[The Rolling Stones]]' January 18 benefit concert for the victims of the [[Nicaragua]]n earthquake.
*[[May 12]] – [[David Bowie]] is the first rock artist to perform at [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre]] in London.
*[[May 13]] – [[Daniel Barenboim]] collapses with a gastric upset during a concert at the [[Brighton Festival]] in England, but later had sufficiently recovered to be driven home.
*[[May 23]] – [[Don Robey]] sells [[Duke Records]], [[Peacock Records]] and Backbeat Records to [[ABC Dunhill Records]].
*[[May 25]] – [[Mike Oldfield]]'s ''[[Tubular Bells]]'' becomes the first release on [[Richard Branson]]'s newly launched [[Virgin Records|Virgin]] label in the UK.
*[[June 1]] - [[Robert Wyatt]] falls three storeys from a London apartment block, becoming paralized from the waist down. After a six-month stay in hospital, where he composes the material for his ''[[Rock Bottom (album)|Rock Bottom]]'' album, he continues his musical career using a wheelchair.
*[[June 4]] – [[Ronnie Lane]] plays his last show with [[Faces (band)|Faces]] at the Edmonton Sundown in London. Lane had informed the band three weeks earlier that he was quitting.
*[[June 15]] – The first [[Istanbul International Music Festival]] opens.
*[[June 16]] – [[Benjamin Britten]]'s opera ''Death in Venice'', receives its première at [[Snape Maltings]] in England.
*[[June 29]] – The [[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] play their first gig with [[Uli Roth]] at a festival in [[Vechta]], Germany. Roth was originally intended as a temporary replacement for [[Michael Schenker]], who had just been snapped up by [[U.F.O. (band)|U.F.O.]] earlier in the month.
*[[June 30]] – [[Ian Gillan]] quits [[Deep Purple]].
*[[July 1]] – [[Slade]] play a sell-out [[Earls Court Exhibition Centre|Earls Court]] in London after two number one singles this year.
*[[July 3]] – [[David Bowie]] 'retires' his stage persona Ziggy Stardust in front of a shocked audience at the [[Hammersmith Odeon]] in London at the end of his British tour.
*[[July 4]] – [[Slade]] drummer [[Don Powell]] is critically injured in a car crash in Wolverhampton; his 20-year-old girlfriend is killed. With his life in danger, the band's future is left in the balance. Powell recovers after surgery, and is able to join the band ten weeks later in New York, to record "[[Merry Xmas Everybody]]".
*[[July 13]]
**[[The Everly Brothers]] break up after [[Phil Everly]] smashes his guitar on the floor midway through their final show together.
**[[Queen band|Queen]] release their [[Queen (Queen album)|debut album]].
*[[July 15]] – [[Ray Davies]] of [[The Kinks]] makes an emotional outburst during a performance at [[White City Stadium]] in London, announcing he is quitting the group. He later recants the statement.
*[[July 28]] – [[Summer Jam at Watkins Glen]] [[rock festival]] in New York (state) is attended by 600,000, who see [[The Allman Brothers Band]], [[The Band]] and the [[Grateful Dead]].
*[[July 30]] – Soviet officials grant permission for [[Gennadi Rozhdestvensky]] to accept a three-year appointment as chief conductor of the [[Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra]], the first time a Soviet orchestra conductor has been allowed to take up such a position outside of the [[Eastern Bloc]].<ref>Anon., "Russia Lets Conductor Take Post in Sweden", ''The Times'', issue 58848 (July 31, 1973): 5 col G.</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Stevie Wonder]] is seriously injured in a car accident outside [[Durham, North Carolina]], spending the next four days in a [[coma]].<ref>{{cite web | title = I heard that Stevie Wonder lost his sense of smell. Is that true? | access-date = October 22, 2008 | first = Gavin | last = Edwards | work = Rule Forty Two | url = http://rulefortytwo.com/secret-rock-knowledge/chapter-1/stevie-wonder-lost-his-sense-of-smell | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090106030029/http://rulefortytwo.com/secret-rock-knowledge/chapter-1/stevie-wonder-lost-his-sense-of-smell/ | archive-date = January 6, 2009 }}</ref>
*[[August 11]] – [[DJ Kool Herc]] originates the [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] genre in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/birthplace-of-hip-hop/|title=Birthplace of Hip Hop|work=[[History Detectives]]|publisher=[[PBS]]|access-date=2017-08-11}}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – The [[London Symphony Orchestra]] becomes the first British orchestra to take part in the [[Salzburg Festival]].
*[[August 25]] – [[The Allman Brothers]] nearly suffer another tragedy when [[Butch Trucks]] crashes his car near [[Macon, Georgia]], not far from where [[Duane Allman]] was killed two years earlier. Trucks survives with only a broken leg.<ref>{{cite book|title=Rock Movers & Shakers|publisher=Billboard Publications, Incorporated|year=1989|isbn=9780823076086|page=12}}</ref>