Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1970s ==
{{Main|1970s in music}}
* '''[[1979 in music]]''', '''[[1979 in British music]]''', '''[[1979 in Japanese music]]''', '''[[1979 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Notable events:
***The [[Sony Walkman]] goes on sale
***The musical ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'' first performed
**Deaths of:
***[[Van McCoy]]
***[[Richard Rodgers]]
***[[Charles Mingus]]
***[[Donny Hathaway]]
***[[Sid Vicious]]
***[[Minnie Ripperton]]
***[[Nadia Boulanger]]
***[[Stan Kenton]]
**Notable releases:
***[[The Clash]] – ''[[London Calling]]''
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Wall]]''
***[[Earth, Wind & Fire]] – ''[[I Am (Earth, Wind & Fire album)|I Am]]''
***[[Sister Sledge]] – ''[[We Are Family (album)|We Are Family]]''
***[[Michael Jackson]] – ''[[Off the Wall (album)|Off the Wall]]''
***[[Donna Summer]] – ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer album)|Bad Girls]]''
***[[Anita Ward]] – "[[Ring My Bell]]"
***[[Public Image Ltd.]] – ''[[Metal Box]]''
***[[Elvis Costello]] – ''[[Armed Forces (album)|Armed Forces]]''
***[[AC/DC]] – ''[[Highway to Hell]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]''
***[[Wire (band)|Wire]] – ''[[154 (album)|154]]''
***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[In Through the Out Door]]''
***[[Supertramp]] – ''[[Breakfast in America]]''
***[[ABBA]] – ''[[Voulez-Vous]]''
***[[The B-52's]] – ''[[The B-52's (album)|self-titled debut album]]''
***[[Motörhead]] – ''[[Overkill (Motörhead album)|Overkill]]'' and ''[[Bomber (album)|Bomber]]''
***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery]]''
***[[Van Halen]] – ''[[Van Halen II]]''
***[[Joy Division]] – ''[[Unknown Pleasures]]''
***[[Talking Heads]] – ''[[Fear of Music]]''
***[[Gang of Four (band)|Gang of Four]] – ''[[Entertainment!]]''
***[[Scorpions (band)|Scorpions]] – ''[[Lovedrive]]''
***[[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] – ''[[Solid State Survivor]]''
***[[Casiopea]] – ''[[Casiopea (album)|self-titled debut album]]''
***[[Univers Zero]] – ''[[Heresie (album)|Heresie]]''
***[[Sugarhill Gang]] – "[[Rapper's Delight]]" (often noted as the official birth of rap music)
* '''[[1978 in music]]''', '''[[1978 in British music]]''', '''[[1978 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Deaths of:
***[[Keith Moon]]
***[[Ray Noble]]
***[[Joe Venuti]]
***[[Louis Prima]]
***[[Don Ellis]]
***[[Jacques Brel]]
**Notable releases:
***[[The Who]] – ''[[Who Are You]]''
***[[Kate Bush]] – ''[[The Kick Inside]]''
***[[Gloria Gaynor]] – ''[[Love Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)|Love Tracks]]'' (including her No. 1 hit single "[[I Will Survive]]").
***[[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] – ''[[Parallel Lines]]''
***[[Funkadelic]] – ''[[One Nation Under a Groove]]''
*** ''[[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds]]''
***[[Devo]] – ''[[Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!]]''
***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Jazz (Queen album)|Jazz]]''
***[[Talking Heads]] – ''[[More Songs About Buildings and Food]]''
***[[Chic (band)|Chic]] – ''[[C'est Chic]]''
***[[Olivia Newton-John]] and [[John Travolta]] – [[Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture|soundtrack album]] to the [[musical film]] ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]''
***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Ambient 1: Music for Airports]]''
***[[Jean-Michel Jarre]] – ''[[Équinoxe]]''
***[[Klaus Schulze]] – ''[[X (Klaus Schulze album)|X]]''
***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[The Man-Machine]]''
***[[Boney M.]] – ''[[Nightflight to Venus]]''
***[[Haruomi Hosono]] and [[Yellow Magic Orchestra|Yellow Magic Band]] – ''[[Paraiso (Haruomi Hosono album)|Paraiso]]''
***[[Prince (musician)|Prince]] – ''[[For You (Prince album)|For You]]''
***[[Van Halen]] – ''[[Van Halen (album)|Van Halen]]'' (Debut)
***[[Dire Straits]] – ''[[Dire Straits (album)|Dire Straits]]''
***[[Public Image Ltd.]] – ''[[Public Image: First Issue]]''
***[[The Blues Brothers]] – ''[[Briefcase Full of Blues]]''
***[[The Police]] – ''[[Outlandos d'Amour]]''
***[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] – ''[[Thousand Knives]]''
***[[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] – ''[[Yellow Magic Orchestra (album)|Yellow Magic Orchestra]]''
***[[Haruomi Hosono]], [[Shigeru Suzuki]], and [[Tatsuro Yamashita]]'s ''[[Pacific (1978 album)|Pacific]]'', the [[Omnibus edition|Omnibus album]] which contains a prototype version of Hosono's famous track ''Cosmic Surfin''' that would later be upgraded in [[Yellow Magic Orchestra|YMO]]'s debut album the same year.
* '''[[1977 in music]]''', '''[[1977 in British music]]''', '''[[1977 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Notable events:
***The musical ''[[Annie (musical)|Annie]]'' first performed
***[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] Convair 240 plane crash
**Deaths of: 
***[[Elvis Presley]]
***[[Bing Crosby]]
***[[Marc Bolan]]
***[[Errol Garner]]
***[[Ethel Waters]]
***[[Maria Callas]]
**Notable releases:
***[[Fleetwood Mac]] – ''[[Rumours (album)|Rumours]]''
***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[News of the World (album)|News of the World]]''
***[[Bee Gees]] – ''[[Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)|Saturday Night Fever]]''
***[[Kraftwerk]]'s ''[[Trans-Europe Express (album)|Trans-Europe Express]]''
***[[Television (band)|Television]] – ''[[Marquee Moon]]''
***[[Sex Pistols]] – ''[[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]'' and ''[["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|Heroes]]''
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Animals (Pink Floyd album)|Animals]]''
***[[Earth, Wind & Fire]] – ''[[All 'n All]]''
***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Out of the Blue]]''
***[[Giorgio Moroder]] – ''[[From Here to Eternity (Giorgio Moroder album)|From Here to Eternity]]''
***[[Taeko Onuki]] – ''[[Sunshower (Taeko Ohnuki album)|Sunshower]]''
***[[Motörhead]] – ''[[Motörhead (album)|Motorhead]]''
***[[Space (French band)|Space]] – ''[[Magic Fly]]''
***[[Ashra (band)|Ashra]] – ''[[New Age of Earth]]''
***[[Weather Report]] – ''[[Heavy Weather (album)|Heavy Weather]]''
***[[Meat Loaf]] – ''[[Bat Out of Hell]]''
* '''[[1976 in music]]''', '''[[1976 in British music]]''', '''[[1976 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Notable events:
***[[The Band]] performs their final concert, ''[[The Last Waltz]]''
***Russian-soviet baritone [[Eduard Khil]] releases the song "[[Eduard Khil#Legacy|I'm So Glad, as I'm Finally Returning Home]]", which in three decades time, would become an internet sensation on [[YouTube]]
**Deaths of:
***[[Benjamin Britten]]
***[[Paul Robeson]]
***[[Phil Ochs]]
***[[Howlin' Wolf]]
***[[Charles Stepney]]
***[[Johnny Mercer]]
**Notable releases:
*** [[David Bowie]] – ''[[Station to Station]]''
*** [[Stevie Wonder]] – ''[[Songs in the Key of Life]]''
*** [[Rush (band)|Rush]] – ''[[2112 (album)|2112]]''
*** [[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Presence (album)|Presence]]''
*** [[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Desire (Bob Dylan album)|Desire]]''
*** [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]] – ''[[Rising (Rainbow album)|Rising]]''
*** [[Judas Priest]] – ''[[Sad Wings of Destiny]]''
*** [[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[A New World Record]]''
*** [[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Moonmadness]]''
*** [[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[A Day at the Races (album)|A Day at the Races]]''
*** [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] – ''[[Destroyer (Kiss album)|Destroyed]]''
*** [[AC/DC]] – ''[[High Voltage (1976 album)|High Voltage]]'' and ''[[Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap]]''
*** [[ABBA]] – ''[[Arrival (ABBA album)|Arrival]]''
*** [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[A Trick of the Tail]]''
*** [[The Eagles]] – ''[[Hotel California (Eagles album)|Hotel California]]''
*** [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] – ''[[Evita (musical)|Evita]]'' concept album
*** [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] – ''[[Oxygène]]''
*** [[Mort Garson]] – ''[[Mother Earth's Plantasia]]''
*** [[Ryo Fukui]] – ''[[Scenery (Ryo Fukui album)|Scenery]]''
*** [[ABBA]] – ''[[Dancing Queen]]''
***[[Boston (band)|Boston]] – ''[[Boston (album)|Boston]]''
***The [[Ramones]] – ''[[Ramones (album)|Ramones]]''
***[[The Modern Lovers]] – ''[[The Modern Lovers (album)|The Modern Lovers]]''
* '''[[1975 in music]]''', '''[[1975 in British music]]''', '''[[1975 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Notable events:
***The musical ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' is first performed
**Deaths of
***[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]
***[[Tim Buckley]]
***[[Umm Kulthum]]
***[[Louis Jordan]]
***[[Cannonball Adderley]]
***[[Bernard Herrmann]]
**Notable releases:
***[[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Born to Run]]''
***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Another Green World]]''
***[[Bruce Springsteen]] – ''[[Born to Run]]''
***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)|Sabotage]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Young Americans]]''
***[[Neil Young]] – ''[[Tonight's the Night (Neil Young album)|Tonight's the Night]]''
***[[Neu!]] – ''[[Neu! '75]]''
***[[Fela Kuti|Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70]] – ''[[Expensive Shit]]''
***[[Neil Young]] and [[Crazy Horse (band)|Crazy Horse]] – ''[[Zuma (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album)|Zuma]]''
***[[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] – ''[[Mothership Connection]]''
***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Radio-Activity]]''
***[[Fleetwood Mac]] – ''[[Fleetwood Mac (1975 album)|Fleetwood Mac]]''
***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[The Snow Goose (album)|The Snow Goose]]''
***[[Bob Dylan]] – ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]''
***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Physical Graffiti]]''
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)|Wish You Were Here]]''
***[[Aerosmith]] – ''[[Toys in the Attic (album)|Toys in the Attic]]''
***[[Henry Cow]] and [[Slapp Happy]] – ''[[In Praise of Learning]]''
***[[Patti Smith]] – ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]''
***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[A Night at the Opera (Queen album)|A Night at the Opera]]''
***[[Donna Summer]] – ''[[Love to Love You Baby (album)|Love to Love You Baby]]''
* '''[[1974 in music]]''', '''[[1974 in British music]]''', '''[[1974 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Deaths of:
***[[Duke Ellington]]
***[[Nick Drake]]
**Notable releases:
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Diamond Dogs]]''
***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Mirage (Camel album)|Mirage]]''
***[[Neil Young]] – ''[[On the Beach (Neil Young album)|On the Beach]]''
***[[Brian Eno]] – ''[[Here Come the Warm Jets]]''  & ''[[Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)]]''
***[[Robert Wyatt]] – ''[[Rock Bottom (album)|Rock Bottom]]''
***[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]''
***[[Frank Zappa]] – ''[[Apostrophe (')]]''
***[[Electric Light Orchestra]] – ''[[Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Eldorado]]''
***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Queen II]]'', ''[[Sheer Heart Attack]]''
***[[Yes (band)|Yes]] – ''[[Relayer]]''
***[[Sparks (band)|Sparks]] – ''[[Kimono My House]]''
***[[Supertramp]] – ''[[Crime of the Century (album)|Crime of the Century]]''
***[[Steely Dan]] – ''[[Pretzel Logic]]''
***[[Joni Mitchell]] – ''[[Court and Spark]]''
***[[Big Star]] – ''[[Radio City (album)|Radio City]]''
***[[Jorge Ben]] – ''[[A Tábua de Esmeralda]]''
***[[Kraftwerk]] – ''[[Autobahn (album)|Autobahn]]''
***[[King Crimson]] – ''[[Red (King Crimson album)|Red]]'' and ''[[Starless and Bible Black]]''
***[[John Coltrane]] – ''[[Interstellar Space]]''
***[[Cluster (band)|Cluster]] – ''[[Zuckerzeit]]''
***[[Henry Cow]] – ''[[Unrest (Henry Cow album)|Unrest]]''
***[[Tangerine Dream]] – ''[[Phaedra (album)|Phaedra]]''
***[[Isao Tomita]] – ''[[Snowflakes Are Dancing]]''
***[[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] – ''[[Kiss (Kiss album)|Kiss]]''
* '''[[1973 in music]]''', '''[[1973 in British music]]''', '''[[1973 in Norwegian music]]''' –
**Notable events:
***The musical ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' first performed
**Deaths of:
***[[Víctor Jara]]
***[[Bobby Darin]]
***[[Gram Parsons]]
**Notable releases:
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]''
***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Houses of the Holy]]''
***[[The Who]] – ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' Released
***[[Buffalo (band)|Buffalo]] – ''[[Volcanic Rock (album)|Volcanic Rock]]''
***[[Diana Ross]] – ''[[Touch Me in the Morning (song)|Touch Me in the Morning]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Aladdin Sane]]''
***[[Elton John]] – ''[[Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player]]'' and ''[[Goodbye Yellow Brick Road]]''
***[[Lou Reed]] – ''[[Berlin (Lou Reed album)|Berlin]]''
***[[Stevie Wonder]] – ''[[Innervisions]]''
***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Future Days]]''
***[[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] – ''[[Selling England by the Pound]]''
***[[The Stooges]] – ''[[Raw Power]]''
***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Sabbath Bloody Sabbath]]''
***[[John Cale]] – ''[[Paris 1919 (album)|Paris 1919]]''
***[[Queen (band)|Queen]] – ''[[Queen (Queen album)|self-titled debut album]]''
***[[Camel (band)|Camel]] – ''[[Camel (album)|self-titled debut album]]''
***[[Steely Dan]] – ''[[Countdown to Ecstasy]]''
***[[Maureen McGovern]] – ''[[The Morning After (Maureen McGovern song)|The Morning After]]''
***[[Roberta Flack]] – ''[[Killing Me Softly With His Song]]''
***[[Marie Osmond]] – ''[[Paper Roses]]''
***[[Mike Oldfield]] – ''[[Tubular Bells]]''
***[[King Crimson]] – ''[[Larks' Tongues in Aspic]]''
***[[Herbie Hancock]] – ''[[Head Hunters]]'' and ''[[Sextant (album)|Sextant]]''
***[[Brian Eno]] and [[Robert Fripp]] – ''[[(No Pussyfooting)]]''
***[[Mahavishnu Orchestra]] – ''[[Birds of Fire]]''
***[[Gal Costa]] – ''[[Índia]]''
***[[Magma (band)|Magma]] – ''[[Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh]]''
***[[Area (band)|Area]] – ''[[Arbeit macht frei (album)|Arbeit macht frei]]''
***[[Faust (band)|Faust]] – ''[[Faust IV]]''
***[[Haruomi Hosono]] – ''[[Hosono House]]''
* '''[[1972 in music]]''', '''[[1972 in British music]]''', '''[[1972 in Norwegian music]]''' –
**Deaths of:
***[[Ferde Grofe]]
***[[Carl Stalling]]
**Notable releases:
***[[The Rolling Stones]] – ''[[Exile on Main St.]]''
***[[Elton John]] – ''[[Honky Château]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars]]'' 
***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Ege Bamyası]]''
***[[Premiata Forneria Marconi]] – ''[[Per un amico]]''
***[[Bette Midler]] – ''[[The Divine Miss M]]''
***[[Neu!]] – ''[[Neu! (album)|Neu!]]''
***Big Star (''#1 Record'')
***[[Steely Dan]] – ''Can't Buy a Thrill''
* '''[[1971 in music]]''', '''[[1971 in British music]]''', '''[[1971 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Deaths of: 
***[[Igor Stravinsky]]
***[[Duane Allman]]
***[[Louis Armstrong]]
***[[Jim Morrison]]
***[[Carl Ruggles]]
**Notable releases:
***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Led Zeppelin IV]]''
***[[David Bowie]] – ''[[Hunky Dory]]''
***[[Marvin Gaye]] – ''[[What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)|What's Going On]]''
***[[The Who]] – ''[[Who's Next]]''
***[[Elton John]] – [[Madman Across the Water]]
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Meddle]]''
***[[Joni Mitchell]] – ''[[Blue (Joni Mitchell album)|Blue]]''
***[[Can (band)|Can]] – ''[[Tago Mago]]''
***[[Serge Gainsbourg]] – ''[[Histoire de Melody Nelson]]''
***[[Flower Travellin' Band]] – ''[[Satori (Flower Travellin' Band album)|Satori]]''
* '''[[1970 in music]]''', '''[[1970 in British music]]''', '''[[1970 in Norwegian music]]'''
**Notable events:
***[[The Beatles]] disband
***[[Diana Ross]] departs from [[The Supremes]] and releases ''[[Ain't No Mountain High Enough]]''
***[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] and [[Tim Rice]] release a concept album of their debut musical ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' (which gives birth to the musical name "rock opera")
**Deaths of: 
***[[Jimi Hendrix]]
***[[Janis Joplin]]
***[[Alfred Newman]]
***[[Tammi Terrell]]
***[[George Szell]]
**Notable releases:
***[[Led Zeppelin]] – ''[[Led Zeppelin III]]''
***[[John Lennon]] – [[John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band]]
***[[Elton John]] – his [[Elton John (album)|self-titled album]]
***[[Miles Davis]] – [[Bitches Brew]]
***[[The Jackson 5]] – [[ABC (The Jackson 5 album)|ABC]]
***[[Soft Machine]] – [[Third (Soft Machine album)|Third]]
***[[Black Sabbath]] – ''[[Paranoid (album)|Paranoid]]''
***[[George Harrison]] – ''[[All Things Must Pass]]''
***[[Pink Floyd]] – ''[[Atom Heart Mother]]''