October 1974 in Music History

Events in Music

Album Release

Oct 4 Apple Records releases John Lennon's fifth studio album, "Walls & Bridges" in UK; features No. 1 single "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" (with Elton John) and "#9 Dream"

Oct 6 "Mack & Mabel" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances

Album Release

Oct 11 Columbia Records releases "Streetlife Serenade", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's third studio album

Oct 14 8th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Rich
Oct 17 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse NYC after 1065 per
Oct 18 Wings (Country Hams) release "Walking in the Park with Eloise"
Oct 20 Bard's presentation of "Richard III" opens at Lincoln Center NYC

Music History

Oct 25 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad

Oct 25 Wings release single "Junior's Farm"

Birthdays in Music

Oct 1 Keith Duffy, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), born in Dublin, Ireland
Oct 5 Colin Meloy, American singer (The Decemberists), born in Helena, Montana
Oct 5 Heather Headley, Trinidadian singer, born in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
Oct 7 Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer, born in Hovmantorp, Sweden
Oct 8 DJ Q-Ball [Harry Dean, Jr.], American musician and actor (Bloodhound Gang), born in Limerick, Pennsylvania
Oct 11 Rachel Barton Pine, American violinist, born in Chicago, Illinois
Oct 13 Hawick Lau, Hong Kong Chinese actor (Sealed with a Kiss) and singer, born in Hong Kong

Natalie Maines (48 years old)

Oct 14 American country musician (The Chicks, formerly known as Dixie Chicks), born in Lubbock, Texas

Oct 14 Shaggy 2 Dope [Joseph Utsler], American rapper (Psychopathic Records), born in Detroit, Michigan
Oct 16 Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter and songwriter, born in Kalkara, Malta
Oct 17 Janne Puurtinen, Finnish keyboardist (HIM), born in Helsinki, Finland
Oct 18 Peter Svensson, Swedish musician and songwriter (The Cardigans - "Lovefool"), born in Huskvarna, Sweden
Oct 18 Zhou Xun, Quzhou, Zhejiang, Chinese actress and singer (Suzhou River, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)
Oct 20 SubtractiveLAD [Stephen Hummel] Canadian electronic music composer and performer, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Oct 22 Tim Kinsella, American musician (Cap'n Jazz; Owls), and visual artist, born in Chicago, Illinois
Oct 25 Katja Endemann, German jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer. was born in Munich, Germany
Oct 26 Lisa [Elizabeth Sakura Narita], Japanese musician (M-Flo), born in Tokyo
Oct 31 Natasja Saad, Danish hip hop and reggae artist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2007)

Deaths in Music

Oct 8 Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64
Oct 12 Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor, dies at 73
Oct 12 Joseph Frederick Wagner, American composer, conductor (Boston Civic Symphony, 1925 to 44), and teacher, dies at 74
Oct 13 Josef Krips, Austrian conductor (London Symphony, 1950-54; Buffalo Philharmonic, 1954-63; San Francisco Symphony, 1964-70), dies of lung cancer at 72
Oct 16 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
Oct 24 David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist considered one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century (Moscow Conservatory), dies at 66