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June 14, 1975 America's "Sister Golden Hair" hits #1 in the US. The song is produced by George Martin and contains a guitar riff borrowed from George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."
June 10, 1975 The Eagles release their fourth album, One Of These Nights. It includes "Take It to the Limit," one of the few Eagles songs with a lead vocal by Randy Meisner.
June 7, 1975 John Denver scores his third US #1 hit with "Thank God I'm A Country Boy."
June 6, 1975 "It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June," according to C.W. McCall's song "Convoy."
June 3, 1975 Ozzie Nelson, who starred with his real-life family, including son Rick Nelson, in the long-running radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, dies of liver cancer at age 69.
June 1, 1975 On his 28th birthday, guitarist Ronnie Wood plays his first gig with the Rolling Stones when they open their Tour Of The Americas in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is later named a full-fledged member of the band.
May 26, 1975 Lauryn Hill is born in East Orange, New Jersey. She can both sing and rap at the highest levels, as evident on the 1996 album The Score with her group Fugees, and on her landmark solo album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, released in 1998.
May 24, 1975 On his 34th birthday, Bob Dylan attends the annual Romani celebration of their patron saint Sarah the Black in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France. The experience inspires the song "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)."
May 23, 1975 Jackie "Moms" Mabley, vaudeville star and standup comedian who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, dies of heart failure at age 81. At age 75, she became the oldest living person to have a Top 40 hit with her 1969 cover of Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John."
May 18, 1975 Surfer/musician Jack Johnson is born on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. When his mellow, feel-good songs catch on in the '00s, he switches his focus from surfing to music and starts his own label, Brushfire Records.
May 16, 1975 Kiss play the Cobo Arena, Detroit, recording it for some of their live album Alive!, their first Gold album. In September, Bob Seger records two concerts at Cobo for Live Bullet, his first Gold album.
May 15, 1975 Fleetwood Mac play their first concert with new members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks at a show in El Paso, Texas.
May 13, 1975 Country singer-songwriter Bob Wills, known for the hit "Faded Love" (popularly covered by Patsy Cline in 1963), dies of pneumonia in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 70.
May 12, 1975 Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, each performing in the Sydney production of Jesus Christ Superstar, meet on the first day of rehearsals. Later in the year, they form Air Supply.
May 11, 1975 "Stand By Your Man," released for the fifth time in the UK, finally catches on, going to #1 for the first of three weeks. First released in the UK in 1969, the song leads a surge of British interest in Tammy Wynette, who begins a tour there when her song is still topping the charts.
May 1, 1975 The Rolling Stones announce their Tour Of The Americas by rolling down 5th Avenue in New York City playing "Brown Sugar" from the back of a flatbed truck.
May 1, 1975 Bachman-Turner Overdrive begin their first UK tour at Glasgow Apollo; they are supported by Thin Lizzy.
April 30, 1975 The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon. Many returning veterans suffer ill effects, which is the subject of the song "Still in Saigon" by The Charlie Daniels Band.
April 29, 1975 Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" marks the end of the Vietnam War as the American Radio Service plays the tune during the Fall of Saigon - a signal for American personnel to evacuate. Many songs were written in reaction to the war, which ramped up in the late '60s. A few songs, notably "Still in Saigon" by The Charlie Daniels Band and "Born In The U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen, explore the plight of veterans on their return home.More
April 24, 1975 Pete Ham of Badfinger hangs himself in his London home. 27-year-old Ham, who was the group's lead singer and primary songwriter, was despondent over the business dealings that saw the band's album Wish You Were Here pulled from stores and his income cut off. He leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend who gives birth to a daughter the following month.
April 14, 1975 Former Faces guitarist Ronnie Wood is announced as the replacement for Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor on their upcoming tour. By the end of the year, Wood is their permanent guitarist.
April 7, 1975 After a show in Paris, Ritchie Blackmore leaves Deep Purple to form Rainbow. He is eventually replaced by Tommy Bolin.
March 28, 1975 At an Elvis Presley concert at the Hilton in Las Vegas, Barbra Streisand goes backstage and offers Elvis the lead role in her upcoming film A Star Is Born. Elvis is interested, but on the advice of his manager Colonel Parker, he demands too much money and top billing, so Kris Kristofferson is chosen for the role instead.
March 25, 1975 The rapper Juvenile is born Terius Gray in New Orleans, Louisiana. With his producer Mannie Fresh, he creates a "bounce" sound best heard on his 1998 tail shaker "Back That Azz Up."
March 24, 1975 Paul McCartney throws a party on the Queen Mary to celebrate the release of the Wings album Venus And Mars. Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell are among the guests; their conversation about painting leads to Dylan's song "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" and Mitchell's "Paprika Plains."
March 22, 1975 Barry Manilow makes his first appearance on US television, appearing on American Bandstand to perform "Mandy" and "It's A Miracle."
March 22, 1975 Frankie Valli's unrequited love ballad "My Eyes Adored You" hits #1 in the US.
March 19, 1975 The movie version of The Who's rock opera Tommy premieres in America.More
March 17, 1975 Justin Hawkins, lead singer/guitarist for the glam-pop band The Darkness, is born in Chertsey, Surrey, England. His musical philosophy: "If something's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
March 14, 1975 The movie Rancho Deluxe, starring Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston as Montana cattle ranchers, debuts in US theaters. It features a soundtrack by Jimmy Buffett, who appears in the film singing the tune "Livingston Saturday Night."
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