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This is a list of music-related events in 1973. ... June 16 – Benjamin Britten's opera Death in Venice, receives its première at Snape Maltings in England.
1973 at Garden of Memories Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana Gram Parsons died on September 19, 1973, in room eight of the Joshua Tree Inn, near Joshua Tree National Park . Encouraged by his road manager Phil Kaufman , Parsons again visited the park after completing his latest recording sessions.
On September 20, 1973, at the height of his popularity and the day before the lead single to his fifth album, I Got a Name, was released, Croce, Muehleisen, and four others died in a plane crash. His music continued to chart throughout the 1970s following his death.
Ingram Cecil Connor III (November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973), known professionally as Gram Parsons, was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.He recorded as a solo artist and with the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, popularizing what he called "Cosmic American Music", a hybrid of country, rhythm and blues, soul, folk, and rock.
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1970s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Rob Halford became the new vocalist for Judas Priest, taking over from Al Atkins who departed at the end of 1972. John Hinch also joined the band as their drummer.; Tensions within Deep Purple led to vocalist Ian Gillan leaving and bassist Roger Glover being let go, marking the end of the band's Mark II era.
Ronald Douglas Montrose [1] (November 29, 1947 – March 3, 2012) was an American musician and guitarist who founded and led the rock bands Montrose and Gamma.He also performed and did session work with a variety of musicians, including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Beaver & Krause, Boz Scaggs, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, The Beau Brummels, Dan Hartman, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Marc ...
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list ...