1977-4

Windy City Breakdown

Jonathan Cain

 

 

 

 

 

1977
4/21 Thu
"Jesse Winchester performs a concert in Burlington, Vermont, his first on American soil in ten years. Winchester fled to Canada in January 1967 to avoid military service in Vietnam, but recently became free to return under the Presidential pardon given to
4/22 Fri
"Pink Floyd open the North American leg of their ""Animals"" tour in Miami, Florida."
4/24 Sun
"Several artists, including Joan Baez and Santana, perform at a free concert for 653 inmates of California's Soledad Prison."
4/26 Tue
New York's disco Studio 54 opens.
5/2 Mon
"Elton John performs the first of six consecutive nights at London's Rainbow Theatre, his first concert in eight months. John keeps a low profile in 1977, not releasing any new music for the first year since his recording career began eight years previous
5/7 Sat
"Having been postponed from April 2 because of a BBC technicians' strike, the 22nd Eurovision Song Contest finally goes ahead in London's Wembley Conference Centre. France wins with Marie Myriam and the song ""L'Oiseau et l'Enfant""."
5/11 Wed
The Stranglers and support band London start a 10 week national UK tour.
5/12 Thu
"Instruments made by all five members of the 17th- and 18th-century Guarneri family of violin makers are auctioned at Sotheby's, with the top price of £105,000 paid for an instrument made in 1738 by Giuseppe Guarnieri del Ges_."
5/12 Thu
Virgin Records announces that they have signed the Sex Pistols. The group has already been kicked off their two previous labels in the past four months.
5/14 Sat
"$24,000 worth of cash and valuables are stolen from Lynyrd Skynyrd in Savannah, Georgia."
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