1971
1971
| January
Alice Cooper
- Love It to Death
|
Death
of Coco Chanel.
Presidential hopeful George Wallace announces he will withdraw US troops if elected. Charles Manson is convicted of murder. Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda. |
| February
Bread - Manna
|
OPEC
states threaten to raise oil prices.
Apollo 14 lands on the Moon. Rioting in Northern Ireland leads to the killing of a British soldier. The South Vietnamese enter into Laos. Idi Amin declares himself general and President of Uganda. |
| March
Black Oak Arkansas
- Black Oak Arkansas
|
A bomb explodes in the US Senate in protest for American support of South Vietnamese in Laos. |
| April
The Doors -
L.A. Woman
|
The
Rolling Stones launch their own record label.
Death of composer Igor Stravinsky. President Nixon promises to end US involvement in Vietnam. The Pakistan army wars with the Bangladesh independence rebels. Death of Haiti dictator Papa Doc Duvalier, who is succeeded by his son. |
| May
Deep Purple
- Fireball
|
2 million refugees from Bangladesh flee into India. Marriage of Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez Morena de Macias. Egypt signs a friendship treaty with the USSR. |
| June
Emerson, Lake
and Palmer - Tarkus
|
A cholera epidemic among the refugees in India spreads; President Gandhi seals off the border. Muhammad Ali is cleared of draft dodging. |
| July
The Allman
Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
|
Death
of Jim Morrison.
Death of jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Renewed intense rioting takes place in Northern Ireland. Astronauts drive on the Moon for the first time. |
| August
The Beach Boys
- Surf's Up
|
George Harrison organizes charity concerts for Bangla Desh in New York City. India and the USSR sign a defence pact. Northern Ireland's crises escalates; government troops arrest IRA supporters, IRA kill several and 7000 homes are burnt down. Bahrain achieves its independence. |
| September
The Bee Gees
- Trafalgar
|
Death
of Nikita Khruschev.
A riot in Attica State prison in New York leaves 42 dead. |
| October
The Bob Seger
System - Brand New Morning
|
Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle crash. |
| November
Alice Cooper
- Killer
|
China
gets its first representation in the UN.
100 000 demonstrators take part in an anti-fascist march in Rome. Britain announces it will recognize Rhodesia. |
| December
America - America
|
War erupts between India and Pakistan; Pakistan is defeated. Colonel Gaddafi nationalizes British Petroleum assets in Libya. The IRA steps up its bombing in Northern Ireland. The US renews air raids on North Vietnam. |