Magical history: 1974
Just as incomplete as Wikipedia, but more fun.
January 30. American actor Christian Bale is born.
January. Gordon Lightfoot releases his 9th studio album Sundown, including such great songs as Seven Island Suite, Circle of Steel, Sundown and Too Late for Prayin'.
February 1. The Doobie Brothers release their 4th studio album What Once Were Vices Are Now Habits, including such great songs as Song to See You Through, Black Water, Eyes of Silver and Tell Me What You Want (And I'll Give You What You Need).
February 4. The author of this blog is born.
February 6. John Boorman's science fiction classic Zardoz, infamous for starring Sean Connery in red diapers, premieres in the United States.
February 11. American talk show host Alex Jones is born.
February 13. Robbie Williams is born.
February 23. Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #97.
March 4. ABBA release their 2nd album Waterloo, including such brain cleaners as Waterloo, Hasta Mañana, My Mama Said and Honey, Honey.
March 8. German children's writer Otfried Preußler's Der Räuber Hotzenplotz hits the big screen with Gert Fröbe as Räuber Hotzenplotz, Josef Meinrad as Petrosilius Zwackelmann, a band of gallivanting folk singers commenting on the action and very, very bad costumes.
March. The Spinners release their 4th studio album Mighty Love, including such great songs as Since I Been Gone, Going Home, Love Has Gone and Mighty Love.
March. American writer Philip Kindred Dick, as he states in an interview with writer Charles Platt five years later, has a vision after the pattern of Bernadette Soubirou, not of the Immaculada Councepciou, but the Cumaean Sybil, who shows him the Sybelline Books and informs him that a group of conspirators she has seen has murdered the Kennedys, Dr. King and Bishop Pike, that the (American) Republic is in danger, that the Empire threatens to take over again and that she is there to see to its destruction to which end she has moved Dick from Canada to Fulton so that he can write to Charles Wiggins on the impeachment of President Nixon. In this way she reveals to Wiggins that the Nixon transcripts are forgeries and that when the Nixon tapes will be released the transcripts will be shown as such.
April 6. Björn Ulvaeus abuses the Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision to usher in the disco era with the somewhat pertinently titled winning entry Waterloo.
April 15. Lynyrd Skynyrd release their anti Neil Young hymn Sweet Home Alabama on the album Second Helping.
April. The Mahavishnu Orchestra releases its 3rd studio album Apocalypse, a heady spirited jazz, opera crossover.
May 18. Rick Wakeman, following in the footsteps of Friedrich Smetana, releases his symphonic rock poem Journey to the Center of the Earth.
May 22. Cashing in on big names Michael Cimino presents Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to United States audiences, directing the only film to date to star both Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges, though it has more to do with Charles Manson than Gordon Lightfoot.
May 24. Duke Ellington dies aged 75 in New York City.
June 1. Midnight at the Oasis reaches #6 in the Billboard Hot 100, followed by Sundown at #7, which will go on to the top before the month is over in a flagrant example of the effects of broken ice.
June 27. Refusing for another year to evolve, the Grateful Dead release another timeless album From the Mars Hotel, including such great songs as China Doll, Unbroken Chain, Loose Lucy and Ship of Fools.
July 29. Cass Elliot, better known as Mama Cass (Dream a Little Dream of Me), dies aged 32 in Harry Nilsson's (Everybody's Talking) apartment in Mayfair, London. The film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which premieres two month later at the San Sebastián Film Festival, memorialises her in the character of the lovable, if overweight, Grand Central supervisor Caz Dolowicz. Four years later, on September 7, the by then also aged 32 and overweight drummer of The Who, Keith Moon, dies in the same apartment.
July 29. German writer Erich Kästner dies aged 75 in Munich.
August 30. Steppenwolf release their 7th studio album Slow Flux, including such slow songs as Justice Don't Be Slow, Smokey Factory Blues, Morning Blue and A Fool's Fantasy.
August. Atlanta Rhythm Section release their 3rd album Third Annual Pipe Dream, including such great songs as Doraville, Close the Door, Angel (What in the World's Come over Us?) and The War Is Over.
Summer. Maria Muldaur releases her 2nd solo album Waitress in a Donut Shop, including such great songs as Gringo en Mexico, I'm a Woman, Sweetheart and Oh Papa.
September 13. Supertramp release their 3rd album Crime of the Century, including such great songs as School, Bloody Well Right, Hide in Your Shell, Asylum, Dreamer, Rudy, If Everyone Was Listening and, arguably, Crime of the Century.
October 25. Bob Marley releases the original version of No Woman, No Cry on the album Natty Dread.
October. Spooky Tooth release their 7th studio album The Mirror, including such great songs as Kyle, Higher Circles, Hell or High Water and The Mirror.
November 1. Celebrating the upcoming bypassing of Hamburg city traffic via the A 7 Kraftwerk release their 4th album Autobahn, the entire A-side of which is taken up by the song of the same title, their longest to date.
November 18. Genesis release their 6th studio album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, including such great songs as The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Fly on a Windshield, Carpet Crawlers and Lilywhite Lilith.
November. After their breakaway from the Mahavishnu Orchestra at new year, Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer release their own jazz fusion album Like Children, including a number of rather interesting compositions of this sort, i.e. Country and Eastern Music, I Remember Me, Topeka, Full Moon Boogie and Giving In Gently / I Wonder, with Hammer hinting for the first time at the harmonies that would make him famous as the composer for the Miami Vice television show
December 7. Crime of the Century enters the Billboard 200 at #175, peaking one week later at #170 and staying in it for another week before dropping out again, only to return in 1975 and eventually reach #38 on May 24.
December 14. The Man with the Golden Gun, the only Bond in which James Bond does not feature in the pre-title sequence, premieres with a double Swedish lead in Japan: Maud Adams returns in 1983 as Octopussy and Britt Ekland got no bloody right to sound like an English factory worker or Rick Davies for that matter, despite it being bloody well right that James Bond bloody well would.
December 26. The Elbtunnel, the westernmost crossing of the Elbe river to date, is completed.
January 30. American actor Christian Bale is born.
January. Gordon Lightfoot releases his 9th studio album Sundown, including such great songs as Seven Island Suite, Circle of Steel, Sundown and Too Late for Prayin'.
February 1. The Doobie Brothers release their 4th studio album What Once Were Vices Are Now Habits, including such great songs as Song to See You Through, Black Water, Eyes of Silver and Tell Me What You Want (And I'll Give You What You Need).
February 4. The author of this blog is born.
February 6. John Boorman's science fiction classic Zardoz, infamous for starring Sean Connery in red diapers, premieres in the United States.
February 11. American talk show host Alex Jones is born.
February 13. Robbie Williams is born.
February 23. Maria Muldaur's Midnight at the Oasis enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #97.
March 4. ABBA release their 2nd album Waterloo, including such brain cleaners as Waterloo, Hasta Mañana, My Mama Said and Honey, Honey.
March 8. German children's writer Otfried Preußler's Der Räuber Hotzenplotz hits the big screen with Gert Fröbe as Räuber Hotzenplotz, Josef Meinrad as Petrosilius Zwackelmann, a band of gallivanting folk singers commenting on the action and very, very bad costumes.
March. The Spinners release their 4th studio album Mighty Love, including such great songs as Since I Been Gone, Going Home, Love Has Gone and Mighty Love.
March. American writer Philip Kindred Dick, as he states in an interview with writer Charles Platt five years later, has a vision after the pattern of Bernadette Soubirou, not of the Immaculada Councepciou, but the Cumaean Sybil, who shows him the Sybelline Books and informs him that a group of conspirators she has seen has murdered the Kennedys, Dr. King and Bishop Pike, that the (American) Republic is in danger, that the Empire threatens to take over again and that she is there to see to its destruction to which end she has moved Dick from Canada to Fulton so that he can write to Charles Wiggins on the impeachment of President Nixon. In this way she reveals to Wiggins that the Nixon transcripts are forgeries and that when the Nixon tapes will be released the transcripts will be shown as such.
April 6. Björn Ulvaeus abuses the Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision to usher in the disco era with the somewhat pertinently titled winning entry Waterloo.
April 15. Lynyrd Skynyrd release their anti Neil Young hymn Sweet Home Alabama on the album Second Helping.
April. The Mahavishnu Orchestra releases its 3rd studio album Apocalypse, a heady spirited jazz, opera crossover.
May 18. Rick Wakeman, following in the footsteps of Friedrich Smetana, releases his symphonic rock poem Journey to the Center of the Earth.
May 22. Cashing in on big names Michael Cimino presents Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to United States audiences, directing the only film to date to star both Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges, though it has more to do with Charles Manson than Gordon Lightfoot.
May 24. Duke Ellington dies aged 75 in New York City.
June 1. Midnight at the Oasis reaches #6 in the Billboard Hot 100, followed by Sundown at #7, which will go on to the top before the month is over in a flagrant example of the effects of broken ice.
June 27. Refusing for another year to evolve, the Grateful Dead release another timeless album From the Mars Hotel, including such great songs as China Doll, Unbroken Chain, Loose Lucy and Ship of Fools.
July 29. Cass Elliot, better known as Mama Cass (Dream a Little Dream of Me), dies aged 32 in Harry Nilsson's (Everybody's Talking) apartment in Mayfair, London. The film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which premieres two month later at the San Sebastián Film Festival, memorialises her in the character of the lovable, if overweight, Grand Central supervisor Caz Dolowicz. Four years later, on September 7, the by then also aged 32 and overweight drummer of The Who, Keith Moon, dies in the same apartment.
July 29. German writer Erich Kästner dies aged 75 in Munich.
August 30. Steppenwolf release their 7th studio album Slow Flux, including such slow songs as Justice Don't Be Slow, Smokey Factory Blues, Morning Blue and A Fool's Fantasy.
August. Atlanta Rhythm Section release their 3rd album Third Annual Pipe Dream, including such great songs as Doraville, Close the Door, Angel (What in the World's Come over Us?) and The War Is Over.
Summer. Maria Muldaur releases her 2nd solo album Waitress in a Donut Shop, including such great songs as Gringo en Mexico, I'm a Woman, Sweetheart and Oh Papa.
September 13. Supertramp release their 3rd album Crime of the Century, including such great songs as School, Bloody Well Right, Hide in Your Shell, Asylum, Dreamer, Rudy, If Everyone Was Listening and, arguably, Crime of the Century.
October 25. Bob Marley releases the original version of No Woman, No Cry on the album Natty Dread.
October. Spooky Tooth release their 7th studio album The Mirror, including such great songs as Kyle, Higher Circles, Hell or High Water and The Mirror.
November 1. Celebrating the upcoming bypassing of Hamburg city traffic via the A 7 Kraftwerk release their 4th album Autobahn, the entire A-side of which is taken up by the song of the same title, their longest to date.
November 18. Genesis release their 6th studio album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, including such great songs as The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Fly on a Windshield, Carpet Crawlers and Lilywhite Lilith.
November. After their breakaway from the Mahavishnu Orchestra at new year, Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer release their own jazz fusion album Like Children, including a number of rather interesting compositions of this sort, i.e. Country and Eastern Music, I Remember Me, Topeka, Full Moon Boogie and Giving In Gently / I Wonder, with Hammer hinting for the first time at the harmonies that would make him famous as the composer for the Miami Vice television show
December 7. Crime of the Century enters the Billboard 200 at #175, peaking one week later at #170 and staying in it for another week before dropping out again, only to return in 1975 and eventually reach #38 on May 24.
December 14. The Man with the Golden Gun, the only Bond in which James Bond does not feature in the pre-title sequence, premieres with a double Swedish lead in Japan: Maud Adams returns in 1983 as Octopussy and Britt Ekland got no bloody right to sound like an English factory worker or Rick Davies for that matter, despite it being bloody well right that James Bond bloody well would.
December 26. The Elbtunnel, the westernmost crossing of the Elbe river to date, is completed.
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