Year:1972

Bands Formed

 * Artist
 * ABBA

Singles Released

 * Child in Time Deep Purple
 * Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
 * Walk on the Wild Side Lou Reed

Albums Released

 * Date Released: Artist - Album
 * February 12: Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
 * February 25: Pink Moon - Nick Drake
 * June 6: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

Other Events

 * ===Classical music [ edit] ===

===Popular music [ edit] ===
 * October 12 : Preludes and Fugues of Witold Lutosławski is heard for the first time
 * October 18 : Cantus Arcticus of Einojuhani Rautavaara is the first to hear
 * November 21 : Trumpet Concerto No. 1 of Eino Tamberg is heard for the first time


 * Hit coming from the Fable : Hup there is William with pliers, by Frans van Dusschoten .
 * ==Matches [ edit] ==

==Festivals [ Edit] ==
 * Eurovision


 * Pinkpop