1972 in music
Events
Principal albums of the year
French-speaking people
- In love - Veronique Sanson
- White the hermine - Gilles Servat
- Rebirth with the Celtic toothing-stone - Alan Stivell
English-speaking
- Eat has Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
- #1 - Big Star
- vol. 4 - Black Sabbath
- The Rise and Fall off Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
- Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne
- Squawk - Budgie
- Really - J.J. Fix
- The Academy in Danger - John Cale
- Spotlight kid - Captain Beefheart
- Five - Chicago
- Hot Licks - Commander Cody
- School' S Out - Alice Cooper
- Machine Head - Deep Purple
- Made in Japan - Deep Purple
- Toulouse street - Doobie Brothers
- The Eagles - The Eagles
- What' S Going One - Marvin Gaye
- Jerry Garcia 1 - Jerry Garcia
- Foxtrot - Genesis
- Octopus - Gentle Giant
- Live - Grateful Dead
- Full House - J. Geils Band
- Manassas - Manassas
- Mason Profit - Mason Profit
- Sail Away - Randy Newman
- Powerglide - wise New riders off Purple
- Without you - Nilsson
- Live (album, Procol Harum) - Procol Harum
- Exiles one Hand Street - The Rolling Stones
- Roxy Music - Roxy Music
- Smokin OP' S - Bob Seger
- Secret No - Carly Simon
- Paul Simon - Paul Frederic Simon
- Sunfighter - Grace Slick & Paul Kantner
- Can' T Buy has Thrill - Steely daN
- One Man Dog - James Taylor
- Live - Velvet underground
- II - Loundon Wainwright
- Who' S Next - The Who
- Argus - Wishbone Ash (RU #2; HAVE #169)
- Closed to the Edge - Fragile Yes
- - Yes
- Harvest - Neil Young
- The Large Wazoo - Frank Zappa
Successes of the year in France
- Holidays/the fly - Michel Polnareff
- One will go all to the paradise - Michel Polnareff
- Which will know - Mike Brant
- It is my prayer - Mike Brant
- After you - Vicky Leandros Grand Prix Eurovision
- KIS me - C. Jerome
- the Himalayas - C. Jerome
- a beautiful story - Michel Fugain
- Fais as the bird - Michel Fugain
- Laisse to go music - Stone and Charden
- Laisse me to live my life - Frederic François
- Monday with the sun - Claude François
- Pop corn - Hot Butter
- Besoin for anybody - Veronique Sanson
- the musica - Patrick Juvet
- That Marianne was pretty - Michel Delpech
- If one sang - Julien Clerc
- Shaft - Isaac Hayes
- Heart off gold - Neil Young
- Black dog - Led Zeppelin
- Highway star - Deep Purple
- Imagines - John Lennon
- Rock “roll - Gary Glitter
Births
- February 14th: Rob Thomas, singer of Matchbox 20
- February 17th: Billie Joe Armstrong, singer and guitarist of Green Day
- February 29th: Dave Williams, singer of Drowning Pool
- March 15th: Mark Hoppus, bass player of Blink-182
- March 17th: Melissa Auf der Maur, bass player of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins (1999 - 2000)
- April 1st: Jesse Tobias, former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- May 4th: Mike Dirnt, bass player of Green Day
- May 21st: The Notorious B.I.G, American rappor
- July 15th: John Dolmayan, beater of System off has Down
- August 5th: Christian Olde Wolbers, guitarist and bass player of Fear Factory
- September 21st: Liam Gallagher, singer of the British rock group Oasis
- October 17th: Eminem, American rappor
- December 4th: Justin Welch, beater of Elastica
- December 9th: Cool Tré, beater of Green Day
- December 18th: Raymond Herrera, beater of Fear Factory
- December 25th: Josh Freese, beater of The Vandals
Principal deaths
- January 1st: Maurice Knight, French singer, 83 years
Rewards
- X
Grammy Award S
- X
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