Events in Music in 1977

Jan 6 EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols

Jan 31 4th American Music Awards: Olivia Newton-John & Elton John win

Feb 4 Wings release their single "Maybe I'm Amazed"
Feb 10 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
Feb 13 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 239 performances
Feb 13 "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater NYC after 39 performances
Feb 13 "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 145 performances

Feb 18 George Harrison releases "True Love"

Feb 19 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band
Feb 20 "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
Feb 24 12th Academy of Country Music Awards: Mickey Gilley and Crystal Gayle win

Feb 27 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada

Mar 5 3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

Apr 6 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
Apr 11 "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year 1977)
Apr 17 "I Love My Wife" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 864 performances
Apr 18 "Side by Side" by Stephen Sondheim opens at Music Box NYC for 390 performances
Apr 21 C Strouse & M Charnins musical "Annie" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 2377 performances
Apr 30 "Party with Comden & Green" closes at Morosco NYC after 92 performances
May 2 "The King & I" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
May 6 "Beatles at Hollywood Bowl" released in UK
May 7 "Happy End" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 75 performances
May 7 22nd Eurovision Song Contest: Marie Myriam for France wins singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" in London
May 21 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 167 performances

May 25 Original "Star Wars" movie (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford first released

May 27 The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen", sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
May 31 "Beatlemania" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 920 performances
Jun 7 During the Queen's Jubilee, the Sex Pistols attempt to perform on a boat on the River Thames, but are forced to stop by the police
Jun 12 "Pippin" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1944 performances
Jun 16 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
Jun 18 Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten & Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub

Jun 26 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career

Jul 30 "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb reaches number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Aug 29 Iggy Pop releases his second album "Lust for Life", a collaboration with David Bowie

Sep 29 James Brown's band walks out claiming they were underpaid & overworked

Oct 1 Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame

Oct 3 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 performances
Oct 5 "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 43 performances
Oct 7 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
Oct 10 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
Oct 14 Rock band KISS release their 2nd live album "Alive II"
Oct 15 Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
Oct 15 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
Oct 20 Six killed in Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in McComb, Mississippi including band members Ronnie Vanzant, Steve Gains, Cassie Gaines and Dean kilpatrick
Oct 29 "Act" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 233 performances
Nov 6 "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
Nov 11 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
Nov 21 "All 'N All" 8th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1978)
Nov 23 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 performances
Nov 27 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 performances
Dec 31 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 performances
Dec 31 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances