Editing 1976 in music (section)

===May–June===
*[[May 1]] – [[The Alan Parsons Project]] release their debut studio album, [[Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Alan Parsons Project album)|''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'']].<ref>''Classic Rock magazine'', July 2010, Issue 146.</ref>
*[[May 3]]
**[[Paul McCartney]] and [[Wings (band)|Wings]] start their [[Wings over America Tour]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Fred Bronson|title=The Billboard Book of Number One Hits|url=https://archive.org/details/billboardbookofn00fred|url-access=registration|year=1997|publisher=Billboard Books|isbn=978-0-8230-7641-3}}</ref> This is the first time McCartney has performed in the US since [[The Beatles]]' last concert in 1966 at [[Candlestick Park]].
**[[Paul Simon]] puts together a benefit show at [[Madison Square Garden]] to raise money for the New York Public Library. [[Phoebe Laub|Phoebe Snow]], [[Jimmy Cliff]] and the [[Brecker Brothers]] also perform. The concert brings in over $30,000 for the Library.
*[[May 19]]
**[[Rolling Stones]] guitarist [[Keith Richards]] is involved in a car accident northwest of London. [[Cocaine]] is found in his wrecked car. Richards is given a court date of January 12, 1977.
**Rumour spread by German press: [[ABBA]] members killed in plane crash, only Anni-Frid survived.
*[[May 25]] – [[Bob Dylan]]'s [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] tour ends.
* June – Former Spring Canyon keyboardist [[Mark Cook (musician)|Mark Cook]] joins [[Daniel Amos]].
*[[June 6]] – [[Keith Richards]] and [[Anita Pallenberg]] suffer tragedy when their 10-week-old son Tara dies of respiratory failure.
*[[June 10]] – [[Alice Cooper]] collapses and is rushed to UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles, three weeks before the [[Alice Cooper Goes to Hell|Goes To Hell]] tour would begin. The tour is cancelled.
*[[June 17]] – the first [[Macroom Mountain Dew Festival]] is held, the first ever [[rock festival]] to take place in [[Ireland]].
*[[June 18]] – [[ABBA]] perform "[[Dancing Queen]]" for the first time on Swedish television in [[Stockholm]] on the eve of the wedding of [[King Carl XVI Gustaf]] to [[Silvia Sommerlath]].
*[[June 25]] – [[Uriah Heep (band)|Uriah Heep]] performs its last show with [[David Byron]] as lead singer in [[Bilbao]], Spain. Byron is sacked shortly afterward.