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George Harrison inaugurates his new Dark Horse label, with the release of The Place I Love by a group called Splinter. Harrison produced the album.
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Joe Strummer's pre-Clash outfit, the 101ers, named after the number on the torture room of George Orwell's novel 1984, play their first show, at the Briton Telegraph Club.
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President Ford grants Richard Nixon a full pardon for all federal crimes he may have committed, although he has yet to be charged with any.

Daredevil Evel Knievel fails to complete his much-publicized 1,600-foot jump over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho when the parachute on his steam-powered "Skycycle" opens prematurely.
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The New York Dolls split up after just two albums. Their career is best summed up in one of their LP titles, Too Much Too Soon.

St. Louis Cardinals infielder Lou Brock sets a professional baseball record when he steals his 105th base of the season.
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Band and Joni Mitchell play the 80,000-plus-seat Wembley Stadium in London.
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Violence erupts as white students and families opposed to integrated busing boycott classes in South Boston. Schools call in police protection, but fighting continues for weeks, peaking Oct. 15. Gang wars ignite, several students are hospitalized and the presence of the Massachusetts National Guard is requested.
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Stevie Wonder begins his first tour since his near-fatal car accident, at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. The night before, a party is held for Wonder at New York's Delmonico's Hotel. Among the well-wishers were Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Dudley Moore and Roberta Flack.
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Uriah Heep bassist Gary Thain receives a severe electrical shock during the group's Dallas concert. He is expected to be fully recovered by mid-October, but the band is forced to cancel three remaining shows on the tour.

Soviet authorities use bulldozers and antiriot gear to crush an open-air "unofficial art" show in Moscow.
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Strongly criticizing the prosecutor of the case, a federal judge dismisses all charges relating to the Wounded Knee occupation against AIM leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks.

President Ford signs a Vietnam War clemency act offering repatriation and pardons to all draft resisters and military deserters in exchange for two years of public service and an oath of allegiance. When the program period ends the following Mar. 31, only 22,500 of the 124,400 eligible will have acted on the offer.
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After repeated New York Times reports of U.S. involvement in the overthrow of Salvador Allende Gossens's Chilean government, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee initiates an investigation. On Oct. 3, Chile's military junta admits to holding more than 700 political prisoners, though press reports give numbers as high as 60,000.
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Antonia - a Portrait of the Woman, a film by Judy Collins, premieres at New York's Whitney Museum. The fifty-eight-minute film explores the career of Antonia Brico, Collins' piano teacher for eleven years, whe Collins lived in Denver. Brico is one of the world's few female symphony conductors.

A sell-out crowd of followers of Korean preacher Rev. Sun Myung Moon flocks to New York City's Madison Square Garden; approximately half of the "Moonies" depart before the end of the speech.
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Bad Company turns gold and goes on to give the new group its first hit, "Can't Get Enough." The British band is comprised of former Free members Paul Rodgers and Simone Kirke, Mick Ralphs, late of Mott the Hoople, and Boz Burrell, who once played with King Crimson. Their debut is one of the few to hit Number One.
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Golden Earring, a Dutch group that has been in existence since 1962, receives a gold record for Moontan, which contains the hit "Radar Love." It is the first U.S. success after many years for the band; it will be nine years before they have another American smash.
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Ariel Bender quits Mott the Hoople after just one year. His place is taken by former David Bowie sideman Mick Ronson.
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Robbie McIntosh, drummer for the Scottish group the Average White Band, dies in his North Hollywood hotel room of a heroin overdose. McIntosh was at a party hosted by one Ken Moss when he inhaled a white powder thought to be cocaine, but which turned out to be pure strychnine-based heroin. McIntosh was twenty-four.

Although the first effort by the Souther-Hillman- Furay Band -- country rock's supergroup -- turns gold, the group's fortunes already appear to be on the wane. They will release one more album before disbanding, less than two years after ther much ballyhooed formation.
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The three-day Zaire '74 music festival ends after 31 groups -- 17 from Zaire, 14 from the U.S. (including James Brown, the Staple Singers, the Spinners, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Maskela) -- participate. The purpose of the festival was to present African and black American music. Lloyd Price, festival coproducer, and Don King, boxing promoter of the postponed Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight (to take place in Zaire the following month) agree that the three-day event was a "tremendous success."
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Robert Fripp announces that his is temporarily disbanding King Crimson after five years and seven albums, the most recent being Red.
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John Lennon releases what will be his last album of new material for nearly six years, Walls and Bridges. The album becomes Number One.
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A clash occurs between Lynyrd Skynyrd roadies and a sound technician during a Skynyrd-Blue Oyster Cult concert at the Louisville Convention Center. The Skynyrd road crew claims that Jay Sloatman of Tycobrahe Sound deliberately turned off the sound during the band's set and then attacked them when he was asked to leave the stage. No arrests are made.
  


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