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1972

January Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult Bread - Baby I'm-a Want You Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black Al Green - Let's Stay Together Michael Jackson - Got to Be There Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt Paul Simon - Paul Simon Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards Yes - Fragile	The UK joins the European Common Market. Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland: British soldiers kill 13 demonstrators.
February The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid David Cassidy - Cherish Nick Drake - Pink Moon Dave Mason - Headkeeper Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? The Strawbs - Grave New World Various artists - A Clockwork Orange (soundtrack) Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind Neil Young - Harvest	The British government declares a state of emergency. Paul McCartney & Wings begin their first UK tour. The US launches an important bombing campaign in North Vietnam. US President Nixon visits China. The IRA bombs British soldiers' headquarters. Vietnam peace talks in Paris are fruitless. John Lennon is under surveillance by the FBI.
March Harry Chapin - Heads and Tales Deep Purple - Machine Head Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees The Ohio Players - Pain	Paul McCartney is charged with growing marijuana at his Scotland farm. The US launch a spacecraft to Jupiter. The IRA bombs a Belfast shopping street. The US Senates passes the Equal Rights Amendment. UK Prime Minister Heath announces direct rule over Northern Ireland for a year. North Vietnam launches an important assault on South Vietnam.
April Big Star - #1 Record Caravan - Waterloo Lily Dr. John - Dr. John's Gumbo Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick Graham Nash & David Crosby - Graham Nash & David Crosby Elvis Presley - He Touched Me Randy Newman - Sail Away ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud	US President Nixon escalates bombing of North Vietnam.

May Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around with Jim Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace The Jackson 5 - Lookin' Through the Windows Elton John - Honky Chateau Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes Manassas - Manassas The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street	Death of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Israeli troops free hostages on a hijacked plane. Democratic presidential hopeful George Wallace survives an assassination attempt. President Nixon visits Soviet leader Brezhnev in the USSR and signs a pact on the principles of reducing nuclear war threats. Japanese & PLO terrorists massacre people at an Israeli airport.
June Aphrodite's Child - 666 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Alice Cooper - School's Out Black Oak Arkansas - If An Angel Came to See You... James Brown - There It Is The Eagles - Eagles Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Some Time in New York City Lou Reed - Lou Reed Roxy Music - Roxy Music Leon Russell - Carney Richard Thompson - Henry the Human Fly	The Rolling Stones undertake their first North American tour of the new decade. US militant Angela Davis is acquitted of charges of murder. Burglars are caught in the Watergate offices of the US Democratic Party. The IRA begins a ceasefire in hope of talks. The US Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional.
July John Cale - The Academy in Peril Chicago - Chicago V Neil Diamond - Moods The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Trilogy Foghat - Foghat Gentle Giant - Three Friends Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview Harry Nilsson - Son of Schmilsson Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment (with Ron Wood) T. Rex - Slider*	George McGovern wins the Democratic nomination for US President. Paul McCartney is arrested for marijuana possession in Sweden. The IRA resumes its bombings. British troops dismantle barricades in Northern Ireland put up by civilians.
August Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A. John Denver - Rocky Mountain High Michael Jackson - Ben The O'Jays - Back Stabbers Bob Seger - Smokin O.P.'s	President Nixon orders the last American ground troops to withdraw from Vietnam. John Lennon performs charity concerts in New York City. Start of the summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

September Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Grand Funk Railroad - Pheonix Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes Bonnie Raitt - Give It Up Yes - Close to the Edge	American Bobby Fischer becomes the first world chess champion. Arab guerillas take hostages at the Israeli compound of the Munich Olympics; the hostages are killed in gun battle. Charges are brought against Nixon aides for the Watergate affair. Asians are forced to leave Uganda at Idi Amin's order.
October The Bee Gees - To Whom It May Concern Genesis - Foxtrot Gary Glitter - Gary Glitter The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Diana Ross - Lady Sings the Blues Santana - Caravanserai Cat Stevens - Catch Bull at Four Stevie Wonder - Talking Book	The US and USSR sign an arms limitation treaty. Israeli forces bomb Lebanon and Syria. New peace talks are held in Paris over the Vietnam war.
November David Cassidy - Rock Me Baby Carole King - Rhymes and Reasons Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M Joni Mitchell - For The Roses The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn Lou Reed - Transformer Carly Simon - No Secrets Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill Various artists (Jimmy Cliff) - The Harder They Come (approx. date) War - The World Is a Ghetto	US President Nixon is re-elected. The US government intensifies bombing of North Vietnam in the hopes of forcing a ceasefire.
December America - Homecoming Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man Gentle Giant - Octopus Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You Garm Parsons - G. P. Slade - Slayed?	US Senator Strom Thurmond sends a confidential memo to the Attorney General suggesting John Lennon should be deported. 10 000 are killed in an earthquake in Nicaragua. Death of ex-US President Harry Truman. President Nixon orders the suspension of the bombing of Hanoi.

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