I graduated High School in 1973 - What are some of the big musical events that occured in your graduation year?

It was in 1965. Mary Quant introduces The mini-skirt. With advance orders of 600,000, British Band Herman's Hermits soar to the US Number One slot for the first of three weeks of the year with Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter. A new communications satellite, sends television pictures from the US to the UK for the first time. President Johnson sends troops to the Dominican Republic. The Americans are later replaced by an international peace keeping force.

The Warlocks, an early incarnation of the Grateful Dead, record instrumental demos at a studio in Los Angeles. British Rock Royalty, including The Beatles, Donovan, Paul Jones of Manfred Mann and Eric Burdon of the Animals, turn out to see Bob Dylan play at London's Royal Albert Hall. Atlantic Records signs Wilson Pickett to a recording contract. An early line up of Pink Floyd plays at the Summer Dance, Homerton College, Cambridge UK. Britian adopts the metric system. Bob Dylan and Joan Baez are among those in a Vietnam peace march in London. Most of the Uk musical aristocracy are notable by their absence. The US State Department finally admits that troops in Vietnam have a combat role.John Lennon's second book, A Spaniard In The Works, is published. The Byrds first single "Mr. Tambourine Man" hits the US no. 1 spot. The U.S. probe mariner 4 sends the first close up photos of Mars back to Earth. The largest crowd for a rock show 56,000 fans see the Beatles play live at Shea Stadium. The same day racial tensions in the US explode in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Bob Dylan is booed by some of the more traditinal members of the audience at the Newport Folk Festival.I Spy begins in US, it's the first TV series to have a black star, Bill Cosby. The USSR admits it has been supplying weapons to North Vietnam. The Beatles are awarded Member Of The British Empire decorations by Queen Elizabeth. Pope Paul VI, the frist pontiff ever to visit the U.S. Manfred Mann headlining a tour in Czechoslovakia, become the first rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain. Consciously marketed by their manger Andrew Loog Oldham as the antihesis of the clean-cut, bright and bouncy Merseybeat pop of The Beatles, theRolling Stones set out their stall as mad, bad and dangerous to know. Pitching hard edged blues against The Beatles melodic power pop, the Rolling Stones will be the inspiration for every camp, preening, but determnedly heterosexual front man, every louche, aloof, artful cigarette sportin guitarist, in fact every hard edgeed rock band will follow. What a year for bad boy rock. The Doors play one of their first professional gigs, at the Pioneer Club Boat Ride, in Los Angeles. San Francisco based innovator Bill Ham demonstrates a complex system of lights and slides which he calls a light show. This will become a vital ingredient of rock shows in the psychedelic era. Ken Kesey author of One Few Over The Cuckoo's Nest and his followers, The Merry Pranksters make their first public 'acid tests' spiking US soft drink Kool-Aid with LSD. The exploits of this jolly outfit are later recounted by Tom Wolfe in his Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Later Kool Aid will be used by the cult leader Jim Jones to poison his followers. The Beatles new album Rubber Soul is released as they set off on what will turn out to be their last UK tour.

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I won't give the year, although I will say that I'm younger than you, Mike which means I'm also younger than Peepaw. However, I am about as much older than Amie La Rose as you and Peepaw are older than me.

Big Hits from my graduation year:

"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes

"Tainted Love" by Soft Cell

"Woman" by John Lennon (just a few weeks after his death the single hit #1)

"In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins

Marriages: Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli; Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach

Both Steven Tyler (motorcycle) and Eric Clapton (car) were injured in accidents. Clapton had to cancel his U.S. tour due to bleeding ulcers (he was hospitalized for several weeks).

U2 made their first U.S. television appearance.

John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas was convicted of drug possession, but he avoided jail time.

The first issue of Kerrang! magazine, with Angus Young of AC/DC on the cover, was released.

The Violent Femmes were discovered, by band members of the Pretenders, and were invited to open a Pretenders concert.

Simon and Garfunkel performed their famed Central Park reunion concert with an estimated 500,000 fans in attendance.

1987 was a pretty good year too...

'Appetite For Destruction' - Guns N Roses

'The Joshua Tree' - U2

'Strangeways Here We Come' - The Smiths

'Pleased To Meet Me' - The Replacements

'Sign Of The Times' - Prince

'Bad' - Michael Jackson

I have great memories of 87, I'd been a Beatles fan for as long as I can remember and I finally got to see two of them in person George and Ringo at a charity show in London, I also met another hero Steve Marriott in a pub during the summer of 87.

The one piece of bad news was that my favourite band The Smiths split up, I was gutted, don't think I ever got over it but there was hope on the horizon over in Seattle Kurt Cobain was about to put together my next favourite band that would get me through the early 90's.

1971

Sticky Fingers by the Stones was a megahit

Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin had all recently died

the Allman Brothers Band had a breakthrough with Live at Fillmore East

Brewer and Shipley had the song One Toke Over the Line

Alice Cooper put out two great albums - Love It to Death and Killer

Jonathan Edwards had his great tune Sunshine

You can't even run your own life

I'll be damned if you'll run mine

Signs by the Five Man Electrical Band

Future Games (album) by Fleetwood Mac

Teenage Head (album) by Flamin' Groovies, but I wouldn't hear about them until 1976

Aretha Franklin still going strong

What's Going On (album) by Marvin Gaye

the J. Geils Band

Boobs a Lot - a classic tune by the Holy Modal Rounders from their album Good Taste Is Timeless

Humble Pie, Peter Frampton was still in the band

Aqualung (album) by Jethro Tull

Tapestry (album) by Carole King

and so forth

It was a great year for music

the james gang and montrose broke up and tom petty and the hesartbreakers were formed. howlin wolf, paul kossoff, and freddie king died. the record of the year was love will keep us together by the captain and tenille. elton john announced that he was bisexual. paul mccartney started a tour in america, the first time he performed live in the states in a decade. bruce springsteen jumped the wall at graceland in an attempt to see elvis and security guards escort him off the property. aerosmith released rocks and peter frampton released frampton comes alive.

i spent the fall of 1976 following the grateful dead around for a few shows.

I graduated in 95', but by no means did I listen to the music i'm going to name you soon. In fact, I didn't really get into music until Napster came along. My musical exploration started in 96', but it really started to bloom because of Napster. Anyways . . .

The Bends by Radiohead

Liquid Swords by GZA

Different Class by Pulp

The Infamous by Mobb Deep

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey

Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous by Big L

Post by Bjork

Come on Mike...I was 17 and just last week celebrated my 54th....lol I can not remember that far back....lol

I saw ABBA perform at the Sydney Show Grounds--in the pouring down rain, was lots of fun!

Bob Marley was injured when he was shot upon

Peter Frampton wins Rock Personality of the Year, while Fleetwood Mac wins for Best Group and Best Album.

#1 song in the US Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rK6BjJaAjY&feature...

#1 song in Oz ABBA : Fernando

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8bm6XlxuCY&feature...

Hi Mike

1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxgaOwbbGy0 Those are just some pop hits that I remember

I think pop music was pretty well liked in those days, as opposed to now.

Queensryche also released Operation Mindcrime

I graduated high school in 2002... honestly, I'm not sure what big musical events happened that year. All I know, that's just about when music started going downhill...

Well I'm graduating in January of 2013, so whatever is going big at the time :)