Tento článek obsahuje události související s hudbou, které proběhly v roce 1970.
Události Festival Isle of Wight Steve Howe nahradil ve skupině Yes kytaristu Petera Bankse
Založené skupiny The Doobie Brothers, dříve Pud, zakládají Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons, John Hartman, Dave Shogren. Electric Light Orchestra založili Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne a Bev Bevan. Horslips Kantoři Ocean Queen založili první tři členové Freddie Mercury, Brian May a Roger Taylor. Baskytarista John Deacon se připojí až v roce 1971. Styx Emerson, Lake & Palmer Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. Earthen Vessel
Zaniklé skupiny The Beatles se rozpadají. Všichni členové vydávají sólová alba. The Dave Clark Five The Monkees Simon & Garfunkel se rozpadají a oba členové dua nastupují sólovou kariéru. The Nice se rozpadají. Keith Emerson zakládá ELP.
Zemřeli 17. ledna – Billy Stewart, zpěvák (32 let) 3. září – Alan „Blind Owl“ Wilson, člen Canned Heat (27 let) 18. září – Jimi Hendrix, kytarista a zpěvák (27 let) 19. října – Janis Joplin, zpěvačka (27 let)
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Domácí Coniunctio – Blue Effect a Jazz Q Praha Klíč k poznání – The Progress Organization (EP) Meditace – The Blue Effect Synkopy 61 – Synkopy 61 (EP)
Zahraniční 12 Songs – Randy Newman A Beard of Stars – Tyrannosaurus Rex A Song for Me – Family ABC – Jackson 5 Abraxas – Santana After the Gold Rush – Neil Young Airconditioning – Curved Air All Things Must Pass – George Harrison American Beauty – Grateful Dead American Woman – The Guess Who Anyway – Family Atom Heart Mother – Pink Floyd A Tribute to Jack Johnson – Miles Davis A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World – Merle Haggard,Country Band of Gypsys – Jimi Hendrix Barrett – Syd Barrett Benefit – Jethro Tull The Best of the Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd The Big O – Roy Orbison Bill Haley's Scrapbook: Live at the Bitter End – Bill Haley & His Comets Bitches Brew – Miles Davis,Jazz Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel Canto Libre – Víctor Jara Changes – The Monkees Chapter 2 – Roberta Flack Chicago (sometimes referred to as Chicago II) – Chicago Climbing! – Mountain Closer to Home – Grand Funk Railroad Close to You – Carpenters Come To My Garden – Minnie Riperton Cosmo's Factory – Creedence Clearwater Revival Cucumber Castle – The Bee Gees Deep Purple in Rock – Deep Purple Déjà Vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Down to Earth – Jimmy Buffett Easy Action – Alice Cooper Ecology – Rare Earth Egg – Egg Ella in Budapest, Hungary – Ella Fitzgerald Elton John – Elton John Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer Fire and Water – Free Fun House – Iggy & the Stooges Gla Matari – Quincy Jones Great Speckled Bird – Great Speckled Bird The Great Songs of Roy Orbison – Roy Orbison Hank Williams The Roy Orbison Way – Roy Orbison His Band and the Street Choir – Van Morrison if – If IF 2 – If (I Live) One Day at a Time – Joan Baez Ils ont changé ma chanson – Dalida In the Wake of Poseidon – King Crimson The Isaac Hayes Movement – Isaac Hayes It Ain't Easy – Three Dog Night Jesse Winchester – Jesse Winchester John Barleycorn Must Die – Traffic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon Ladies of the Canyon – Joni Mitchell Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek & the Dominoes Led Zeppelin III – Led Zeppelin Legal – Gal Costa Let It Be – The Beatles Live Album – Grand Funk Railroad Live at Leeds – The Who Lizard – King Crimson Loaded – The Velvet Underground Looking On – The Move McCartney – Paul McCartney Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon – Status Quo The Madcap Laughs – Syd Barrett Magic Christian Music – Badfinger The Man Who Sold The World – David Bowie Maria Bethânia Ao Vivo – Maria Bethânia Master – Tremeloes Moondance – Van Morrison Morrison Hotel – The Doors Mungo Jerry – Mungo Jerry Music from The Body – Ron Geesin a Roger Waters Naturally – Three Dog Night New Morning – Bob Dylan No Dice – Badfinger On Stage – Elvis Presley Open Road – Donovan Paranoid – Black Sabbath Pearl – Janis Joplin Perry Como in Person at the International Hotel, Las Vegas – Perry Como The Point! – Harry Nilsson Portrait – Fifth Dimension Psychedelic Shack – Temptations Redbone – Redbone Runt – Todd Rundgren Self Portrait – Bob Dylan Sex Machine – James Brown Share the Land – The Guess Who Skid – Skid Row,70s Small Talk at 125th and Lennox – Gil Scott–Heron Soul Rebels – The Wailers Spirit in the Dark – Aretha Franklin Sugarloaf – Sugarloaf Sunflower – The Beach Boys Super Bad – James Brown Sweet Baby James – James Taylor Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens Thank Christ for the Bomb – The Groundhogs The Best of the Wailers – The Wailers Things Ain't What They Used to Be – Ella Fitzgerald This Girl's In Love With You – Aretha Franklin Tide – Antonio Carlos Jobim Time and a Word – Yes Trespass – Genesis Vintage Violence – John Cale Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Ash Workingman's Dead – Grateful Dead Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band – Yoko Ono Zabriskie Point – Soundtrack(Pink Floyd,V.A.)
Top hits ABC – The Jackson 5 After Midnight – Eric Clapton Ain't It Funky Now (Part 1) – James Brown Ain't No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross Airport Love Theme (Gwen & Vern) – Vincent Bell & Orchestra All I Have To Do Is Dream – Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell All Right Now – Free Always Something There to Remind Me – R.B. Greaves American Woman – The Guess Who Amos Moses – Jerry Reed And When I Die – Blood Sweat and Tears Angels Don't Lie – Jim Reeves Are You Ready? – Pacific Gas & Electric Arizona – Mark Lindsay As the Years Go By – Mashmakhan Avant de te connaître – Dalida Baby Hold On – The Grass Roots Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) – The Temptations Band of Gold – Freda Payne Be My Baby – Andy Kim Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell Black Magic Woman – Santana Black Night – Deep Purple Blowing Away – The Fifth Dimension Border Song (Holy Moses) – Aretha Franklin Born to Wander – Rare Earth Breaking Up Is Hard to Do – Lenny Welch Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel Brontosaurus – The Move Brother Rapp (Parts 1 & 2) – James Brown Call Me – Aretha Franklin Call Me Super Bad – James Brown Candida – Tony Orlando and Dawn Can't Stop Loving You – Tom Jones Cecilia – Simon & Garfunkel Celebrate – Three Dog Night Check Out Your Mind – The Impressions Chicken Strut – The Meters (They Long to Be) Close to You – Carpenters Closer to Home – Grand Funk Railroad Come And Get It – Badfinger Come Running – Van Morrison Come Saturday Morning – The Sandpipers Concerto pour une Voix – Dalida Cottage Cheese – Crow Cracklin' Rosie – Neil Diamond Cry Me a River – Joe Cocker Cupid – Johnny Nash Darla Dirladada – Dalida Daughter of Darkness – Tom Jones Deeper and Deeper – Freda Payne Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) – The Delfonics Do It – Neil Diamond Do the Funky Chicken – Rufus Thomas Do What You Wanna Do – Five Flights Up Do You See My Love (for You Growing) – Jr. Walker & The All–Stars Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is – Chicago Domino – Van Morrison Don't Play That Song (You Lied) – Aretha Franklin Down on the Corner – Creedence Clearwater Revival Easy Come, Easy Go – Bobby Sherman El Condor Pasa – Simon & Garfunkel Eli's Coming – Three Dog Night Engine Number 9 – Wilson Pickett Everybody Is a Star – Sly & The Family Stone Everybody's Got the Right to Love – The Supremes Everybody's Out of Town – B.J. Thomas Everything is Beautiful – Ray Stevens Everything's Tuesday – Chairmen of the Board Evil Ways – Santana (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With Me – Crow Express Yourself – Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band Fancy – Bobbie Gentry Fire and Rain – James Taylor For All We Know – Carpenters For the Good Times – Ray Price For the Love of Him – Bobbi Martin For You Blue – The Beatles Games – Redeye Gasoline Alley Bred The Hollies Get Ready – Rare Earth Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine (Part 1) – James Brown Gimme Dat Ding – The Pipkins Give Me Just a Little More Time – Chairmen of the Board Go Back – Crabby Appleton God, Love and Rock & Roll – Teegarden & Van Winkle Gotta Hold on to This Feeling – Jr. Walker & The All–Stars Green–Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf The Green Manalishi (With The Two Pronged Crown) – Fleetwood Mac Groovy Situation – Gene Chandler Gypsy Woman – Brian Hyland Hand Me Down World – The Guess Who He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother – Neil Diamond He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother – The Hollies Heaven Help Us All – Stevie Wonder Heed the Call – Kenny Rogers & the First Edition Hello Darlin''' – Conway Twitty Hey Lawdy Mama – Steppenwolf Hey There Lonely Girl – Eddie Holman Hey, Mister Sun – Bobby Sherman Hi–De–Ho – Blood, Sweat & Tears Hitchin' a Ride – Vanity Fare Holly Holy – Neil Diamond Honey Come Back – Glen Campbell House of the Rising Sun – Frijid Pink I (Who Have Nothing) – Tom Jones I Ain't Got Time Anymore – The Glass Bottle I Am Somebody (Part 2) – Johnnie Taylor I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top – The Hollies I Found That Girl – The Jackson 5 I Just Can't Help Believing – B.J. Thomas (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson I Really Don't Want to Know – Elvis Presley I Think I Love You – The Partridge Family I Want to Take You Higher – Sly & the Family Stone I Want to Take You Higher – Ike & Tina Turner I Want You Back – The Jackson 5 If I Were a Carpenter – Johnny Cash & June Carter If I Were Your Woman – Gladys Knight & The Pips If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You? – Ronnie Dyson Ils ont changé ma chanson – Dalida I'll Be There – The Jackson 5 I'll Never Fall in Love Again – Dionne Warwick I'm Not My Brother's Keeper – The Flaming Ember Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry Indiana Wants Me – R. Dean Taylor Instant Karma (We All Shine On) – John Ono Lennon Iron Man – Black Sabbath Isn't It a Pity – George Harrison It Don't Matter to Me – Bread It's a New Day (Parts 1 & 2) – James Brown It's a Shame – The Spinners It's All In the Game – Four Tops It's Impossible – Perry Como It's Only Make Believe – Glen Campbell I've Lost You – Elvis Presley (I Know) I'm Losing You – Rare Earth (You've Got Me) Dangling on a String – Chairmen of the Board Maybe I'm Amazed – Paul McCartney 5–10–15–20 (25–30 Years of Love) – The Presidents A Little Bit of Soap – Paul Davis A Little Ray Of Sunshine – Axiom Jam Up and Jelly Tight – Tommy Roe Jennifer Tomkins – Street People Jingle Jangle – The Archies Joanne – Michael Nesmith & The First National Band Julie, Do Ya Love Me – Bobby Sherman Kentucky Rain – Elvis Presley Knock Three Times – Tony Orlando and Dawn Lady d’Arbanville – Dalida Lay A Little Lovin' On Me – Robin McNamara Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) – Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers Leaving on a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul and Mary Let A Man Come in and Do the Popcorn (Part 2) – James Brown Let It Be – The Beatles Let Me Go to Him – Dionne Warwick Let's Work Together – Canned Heat Let's Work Together (Part 1) – Wilbert Harrison Les Fleur – Minnie Riperton Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection Lola – The Kinks Lonely Days – The Bee Gees Long and Winding Road – The Beatles Long Lonesome Highway – Michael Parks Long Long Time – Linda Ronstadt Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma – The New Seekers Looking Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival Look–Ka Py Py – The Meters Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse Love Land – Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band Love on a Two Way Street – The Moments Love or Let Me Be Lonely – The Friends of Distinction Love the One You're With – Stephen Stills Lucretia MacEvil – Blood, Sweat & Tears