1976 in music
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See also: 1975 in music, other events of 1976, 1977 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Events

• January 7 - Kenneth Moss, a former record company executive, is sentenced to 120 days in the Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation for involuntary manslaughter in the 1974 drug induced death of Average White Band drummer Robbie McIntosh.
• January 13 - A trial begins for seven Brunswick Records and Dakar Records employees. The record company employees are charged with stealing more than $184,000 in royalties from artists.
• February 15 - Bette Midler bails seven members of her entourage out of jail after they are arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession
• January 19 - Concert promoter Bill Sargent makes an offer of $30 million to the Beatles if they would reunite for a concert
• February 19 - Former Tower of Power lead singer Rich Stevens is arrested and charged with the drug related murders of three men in San Jose, California.
• February 20 - Kiss gets their footprints added to the sidewalk outside Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater.
• February 24 - The Eagles Their Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The new platinum certification represents sales of at least 1 million copies for albums and 2 million copies for singles.
• March 4 - ABBA arrive at Sydney airport for a promotional tour in Australia.
• March 6 - EMI Records reissues all 22 previously released British Beatles singles, plus a new single of the classic "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 25 - Jackson Browne's wife Phyllis commits suicide.
• March 26 - In Paris, France, Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough 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 14 - Stevie Wonder announces that he has signed a "$13 million-plus" contract with Motown Records
• April 24 - Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes on on-air offer to pay the Beatles $3000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were apparently watching the show together in New York and considered walking down to the studio to accept the check. On May 22, he raises his offer from $3000 to $3,200.
• 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 escourt him off the grounds.
• May 3 - Paul McCartney and Wings start their Wings over America tour in Fort Worth, Texas. This is the first time McCartney has performed in the US since The Beatles' last concert in 1966 at Candlestick Park.
• May 3 - Paul Simon puts together a benefit show at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the New York Public Library. 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. Cocaine is found in his wrecked car. Richards is given a court date of January 12, 1977.
• May 19 - Rumour spread by German press: ABBA members killed in plane crash, only Ani-Fridh survived.
• June - Former Spring Canyon keyboardist Mark Cook joins Daniel Amos
• 100 Club Punk Festival, the first international punk festival is held in London
• Fall - Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr form a band called Feedback in Dublin. The band would later be renamed U2
• August 13 - The official ABBA logo with the reversed 'B' is born.
• October 9 - The Sex Pistols sign a contract with EMI Records
• October 10 - ABBA in New York on Midnight Special performing 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', 'Mamma Mia' and 'S.O.S.' live.
• November - Former Tower of Power lead singer Rich Stevens, and another person, are found guilty on two counts of murder.
• November 24 - The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it.
• The Flowers of Romance, a band that included many seminal individuals within the punk movement, forms in the summer.
• Bonnie Riatt records Sweet Forgiveness, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977
• War records Galaxy, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977
• Sex Pistols cause media furor when they swear on prime time TV 1 to download.
• Joe Cocker performs a duet with himself (as portrayed by John Belushi) on Saturday Night Live .
• Evita is performed for the first time
• Cheryl Byron performs rapso in calypso tents for the first time, beginning the popularization of rapso
• Peter Brown's solo career begins
• Cheap Trick's career begins
• Devo's career begins
• Leif Garrett's solo career begins
• .38 Special's musical career begins
• The Sex Pistols' career begins
• Y&T (Yesterday & Today)'s musical career begins
• Elvis Costello & the Attractions forms
• Black Flag form
• The Damned form
• Diamond Head form
• Dire Straits form
• Foreigner form
• Iron Maiden form
• Throbbing Gristle form
• Generation X form
• Wire form
• U.K. Subs form
• Cheap Trick signs a contract with Epic Records
• The Clash sign up to CBS
• Elvis Costello signs a contract with Columbia Records
• Steve Martin signs a contract with Warner Bros
• Eddie Money signs a contract with CBS
• Culture form

Albums released

• Arrival - ABBA
• Greatest Hits --ABBA
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
• High Voltage - AC/DC
• Rocks - Aerosmith
• Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
• Children of the World - Bee Gees
• Technical Ecstasy - Black Sabbath
• We Sold Our Souls for Rock & Roll - Black Sabbath
• Blondie - Blondie
• Agents Of Fortune - Blue Oyster Cult
• Private Eyes - Tommy Bolin
• Every Day of My Life - Michael Bolton
• Boston - Boston
• If I Were Britannia I'd Waive the Rules - Budgie
• Havana Daydreamin' - Jimmy Buffett
• A Kind of Hush - The Carpenters
• X - Chicago
• Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
• Desire - Bob Dylan
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
• One of These Nights - The Eagles
• Greatest Hits - The Eagles
• Hotel California - The Eagles
• Works Volume I - Emerson Lake & Palmer
• Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
• Foreigner - Foreigner (debut)
• Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton
• A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
• Wind and Wuthering - Genesis
• M.U. --- Best of - Jethro Tull
• Too Old to Rock And Roll, Too Young to Die - Jethro Tull
• Turnstiles - Billy Joel
• Blue Moves - Elton John
• Wanted! the Outlaws - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
• Look into the Future - Journey
• Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
• Summertime Dream - Gordon Lightfoot
• Leftoverture - Kansas
• Destroyer - Kiss
• Presence - Led Zeppelin
• The Song Remains the Same - Led Zeppelin
• One More from the Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley & the Wailers
• Wings at the Speed of Sound - Paul McCartney
• Wings over America - Paul McCartney & Wings
• Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
• The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Meters, George & Amos Landry, The Neville Brothers
• The Mini-Album - The Sex Pistols (live EP)
• Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
• Hejira - Joni Mitchell
• Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
• Come on Over - Olivia Newton-John
• Clones of Dr. Funkenstein - Parliament
• Mothership Connection - Parliament
• Howlin' Wind - Graham Parker & the Rumour
• Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (debut)
• A Day at the Races - Queen
• A Night at the Opera - Queen
• Rising - Rainbow
• The Ramones - The Ramones
• Home Plate by Bonnie Riatt
• Black and Blue by The Rolling Stones
• Hasten Down the Wind - Linda Ronstadt
• 2112 - Rush
• Another Passenger - Carly Simon
• Silk Desires - Boz Skaggs
• The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
• Both Sides of Ray Stevens - Ray Stevens
• Just for the Record - Ray Stevens
• Misty - Ray Stevens
• Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
• A Night on the Town - Rod Stewart
• Crystal Ball - Styx
• Legalize It - Peter Tosh
• Second Annual Report- Throbbing Gristle
• No Heavy Petting - UFO
• Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer
• Greatest Hits - War
• Love Is All Around - War
• Why Can't We Be Friends - War
• Milky Shade - Kazumi Watanabe
• Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
• Yesterday And Today - Y&T (debut)
• Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
• Tejas - ZZ Top

Top hits on record

• "Afternoon Delight" - Starland Vocal Band
• "Both Ends Burning" - Roxy Music
• "Candy Store Rock" - Led Zeppelin
• "Dancing Queen" ' ABBA
• "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" - Frankie Valli
• "Disco Lady" - Johnnie Taylor
• "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Elton John & Kiki Dee
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
• "Fernando" - ABBA
• "Fool to Cry" - The Rolling Stones
• "Hasten Down The Wind" - Warren Zevon
• "Hot Stuff" - The Rolling Stones
• "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" - England Dan and John Ford Coley
• "It's Over" - Boz Scaggs
• "If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago
• "It Keeps You Running" - Carly Simon
• "Killing of Georgie, Pt. 1-2" - Rod Stewart
• "Landslide" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Let Your Love Flow" - Bellamy Brothers
• "Love Machine (Part 1)" - The Miracles
• "Low Rider" - War
• "Mohammed's Radio" - Warren Zevon
• "Money Money Money" - ABBA
• "More Than a Feeling" - Boston
• "My First Night Alone Without You" - Bonnie Riatt
• "My Love My Life" - ABBA
• "Nadia's Theme (The Young & The Restless)" - Barry DeVorzon & Perry Botkin, Jr
• "New Rose" - The Damned (debut)
• "The Perfect Drug" - Roxy Music
• "Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Rock 'N' Me" - Steve Miller Band
• "Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
• "Say You Love Me" - Fleetwood Mac
• "Show Me the Way" - Peter Frampton
• "Silly Love Songs" - Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Starbuck" - Moonlight Feels Right
• "Still the One" - Orleans
• "Sugar Mama" - Bonnie Riatt
• "Take It To The Limit" - The Eagles
• "Taking It To The Streets" - The Doobie Brothers
• "That'll Be The Day" - Linda Ronstadt
• "This Old Heart Of Mine" - Rod Stewart
• "Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" - Rod Stewart
• "Welcome Back" - John Sebastian
• "Why Can't We Be Friends" - War
• "World Turning" - Fleetwood Mac
• "You Should Be Dancing" - The Bee Gees

Published popular music

• "Always And Forever"     w.m. Rod Temperton
• "Devil Woman"     w.m. Terry Britten & Christine Authors
• "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" w. Tim Rice m. Andrew Lloyd Webber
• "Empty Tables"     w. Johnny Mercer m. Jimmy Van Heusen
• "Evergreen"     w. Paul Williams m. Barbra Streisand
• "Fernando"     w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
• "Gonna Fly Now" (aka "Theme From Rocky")     w. Carol Connors & Ayn Robbins m. Bill Conti
• "Isn't She Lovely?"     w.m. Stevie Wonder
• "Knowing Me, Knowing You"     w.m. Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
• "Like A Sad Song"     w.m. John Denver
• "A Little Bit More"     w.m. Bobby Gosh
• "Money, Money, Money"     w.m. Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
• "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word"     w.m.Elton John

Musical theater

• Bubbling Brown Sugar     Broadway production
• The Club     Broadway production
• Fiddler on the Roof     Broadway revival
• Guys and Dolls     Broadway revival
• Irene     London revival
• My Fair Lady     Broadway revival
• Oh Calcutta     Broadway revival
• Pacific Overtures     Broadway production
• Porgy and Bess     Broadway revival
• Salad Days     London revival
• Side by Side by Sondheim     London production
• The Threepenny Opera     Broadway revival

Musical films

• Bugsy Malone
• The Slipper and the Rose
• The Song Remains the Same
• A Star Is Born
• That's Entertainment II

Births

• January 16 - Stuart Fletcher, The Seahorses
• January 21 - Emma Bunton, Spice Girls
• February 4 - Cam'ron
• February 15 - Brandon Boyd, Incubus
• February 28 - Ja Rule
• March 8 - Gareth Coombes, Supergrass
• March 17 - Stephen Gately, Boyzone
• March 20 - Chester Bennington, Linkin Park
• May 12 - Melanie Chisholm, Spice Girls
• May 17 - Kandi Burruss, Xscape
• May 29 - Dave Buckner, Papa Roach
• May 31 - Scott Klopfenstein, Reel Big Fish
• June 2 - Adrian Carlos Olivares, Menudo
• June 15 - Dryden Mitchell, Alien Ant Farm
• June 21 - Mike Einziger, Incubus
• June 26 - Paul Phillips, Puddle Of Mudd
• June 27 - Leigh Nash, Sixpence None The Richer
• July 3 - Shane Lynch, Boyzone
• July 6 - 50 Cent
• July 11 - Lil' Kim
• July 12 - Tracie Spencer
• August 8 - Drew Lachey, 98 Degrees
• August 8 - J.C. Chasez, *NSYNC
• August 18 - Dirk 'Alex' Lance, Incubus
• September 11 - Ludacris
• October 20 - Tom Wisniewski, MxPx
• November 12 - Tevin Campbell
• December 13 - Tom Delonge, Blink-182
• Blu Cantrell
• John Collura, The Ataris
• Mike Davenport, The Ataris
• Patrick Riley, The Ataris

Deaths

• January 30 - Mance Lipscomb
• February 22 - Florence Ballard, The Supremes
• March 19 - Paul Kossoff, Free, Back Street Crawler, cerebral and pulmonary oedema
• April 8 - Phil Ochs, suicide
• May 14 - Keith Relf, The Yardbirds, Renaissance, Medicine Head, Armageddon, cardiac arrest due to electrocution
• December 4 - Benjamin Britten
• December 4 - Tommy Bolin

Awards

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 1976

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 1976

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