Year:1970

Bands Formed

 * Aerosmith
 * America
 * Badly Drawn Boy
 * Barnes & Barnes
 * Emerson, Lake and Palmer
 * Queen

Singles Released

 * Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) Jimi Hendrix Experience
 * Paranoid Black Sabbath
 * My Sweet Lord George Harrison
 * The Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
 * Immigrant Song Led Zeppelin
 * Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine (Parts 1 & 2) James Brown

Albums Released

 * Date Released: Artist - Album
 * Various Artists - Selections from the Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales

Other Events

 * Beck
 * Jimi Hendrix dies.
 * ===Classical music [ edit] ===

===Popular music [ edit] ===
 * February 13 : first performance of the Violin Concerto by Boris Tchaikovsky
 * April 17 : First presentation of María Sabina of Leonardo Balada
 * October 14 : First performance of the Cello Concerto by Witold Lutosławski


 * The Hague band Shocking Blue scored an international number one hit with Venus.
 * The English rock group Queen is established.
 * ==Matches [ edit] ==

==Festivals [ Edit] ==
 * Eurovision


 * Pinkpop