Editing 1976 in music (section)

===March–April===
*[[March 4]] – [[ABBA]] arrive at Sydney airport for a promotional tour in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abbaofficial.com/australia_1976.html|title=The Promotional Tour March 1976|website=ABBA Official Australian Fan Club|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref>
*[[March 6]] – [[EMI]] Records reissues all 22 previously released British [[The Beatles|Beatles]] singles, plus a new single of the classic "[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]". All 23 singles hit the UK charts at the same time.
*[[March 7]] – A wax likeness of [[Elton John]] is put on display in London's [[Madame Tussaud's]] Wax Museum.
*[[March 9]] – [[The Who]]'s [[Keith Moon]] collapses onstage ten minutes into a performance at the [[Boston Garden]].
*[[March 15]] – Members of [[The Plastic People of the Universe]] are arrested in communist [[Czechoslovakia]]. They were sentenced from 8 to 18 months in jail.
*[[March 20]] – [[Alice Cooper]] marries Sheryl Goddard in an [[Acapulco]] restaurant.
*[[March 25]] – [[Jackson Browne]]'s wife Phyllis commits suicide.
*[[March 26]] – In Paris, France, [[Wings (band)|Wings]] guitarist [[Jimmy McCulloch]] breaks one of his fingers when he slips in his hotel bathroom following the final performance on the band's European tour. The injury ended up delaying the band's United States tour by three weeks.
*[[April 3]] – British pop group [[Brotherhood of Man]] win the 21st [[Eurovision Song Contest 1976|Eurovision Song Contest]] in [[The Hague]], Netherlands, with the song "[[Save Your Kisses For Me]]". It goes on to be the biggest selling Eurovision winner ever.
*[[April 14]] – [[Stevie Wonder]] announces that he has signed a "$13 million-plus" contract with [[Motown Records]].
*[[April 23]] – The [[Ramones]] release their debut studio album, ''[[Ramones (album)|Ramones]]''.
*[[April 24]] – ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' producer [[Lorne Michaels]] makes a semi-serious on-air offer to pay [[the Beatles]] $3000 to reunite live on the show. In a 1980 interview, [[John Lennon]] stated that he and [[Paul McCartney]] happened to be watching the show together at Lennon's apartment in New York and considered walking down to the SNL studio "for a gag" but were "too tired".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061113060341/http://www.geocities.com/wireless_machine/lennon/pi1.htm John Lennon Playboy interview, 1980]</ref> On May 22, Michaels raises his offer from $3,000 to $3,200.
*[[April 28]] – [[The Rolling Stones]] open their European tour in [[Frankfurt]], Germany.
*[[April 29]] – When his tour stops in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], [[Bruce Springsteen]] jumps the wall at [[Elvis Presley]]'s mansion, "[[Graceland]]", in an attempt to see his idol. Security guards stop Springsteen and escort him off the grounds.