Video: 'The Midnight Special More 1973 - 13 - Harry Chapin - Taxi'
(Saturday, February 24, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — Harry Chapin (host) and The Hollies are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special. Continue reading Harry Chapin, The Hollies appear on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: 'The Midnight Special 1973 - 01 - The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music'
(Saturday, February 17, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — The Doobie Brothers are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special with host Johnny Rivers.
Video: 'The Midnight Special More 1973 - 23 - (Bonus) Stand Up Comedy - Ace Trucking'
(Saturday, February 10, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — The Ace Trucking Company comedy troupe, Steely Dan and The Spinners are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special with host Johnny Rivers. Continue reading Steely Dan, Spinners appear on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: 'Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Midnight Special - Feb 2, 1973)'
(Saturday February 3, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) —Midnight Special, a late-night musical variety series, debuted this morning as a regular series (it had premiered as a special on Aug. 19, 1972) on NBC-TV, with Helen Reddy as the host. Continue reading ‘Midnight Special’ debuts as a series on NBC 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: 'Rolling Stones - Live 1973 - Los Angeles' (click here for set list)
(Thursday, January 18, 1973; during The Rolling Stones Pacific Tour 1973) — The Rolling Stones held a benefit concert at the The Forum in Los Angeles today for victims of the Dec. 23, 1972, massive earthquake in Nicaragua. Mick Jagger’s wife Bianca had relatives in Nicaragua. The concert raised more than $400,000.
Video: 'Eric Clapton-Pete Townshend-Live Rainbow Concert 1973-FULL CONCERT'
(Saturday, January 13, 1973) — Eric Clapton made a comeback from drug addiction today when he performed at the Rainbow Theatre in London. His backing band included Pete Townshend, Ron Wood and Steve Winwood.
Video: Aug. 30, 1972 (only 'Imagine' missing from ABC-TV broadcast of Dec. 15, 1972)
(Friday, December 15, 1972, 10 p.m. EST) — An Aug. 30, 1972, performance by ex-Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono with The Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory band at Madison Square Garden in New York City to benefit the Willowbrook School for Children, a home for retarded children, was televised tonight on ABC.
Video: 'Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute video'
(Monday, October 16, 1972) — Fantasy Records and the members of Creedence Clearwater Revival, ranked at 82 on Rolling Stone‘s 100 greatest artists of all time, announced today the rock band from El Cerrito, California, was breaking up.
Video: 'Rory Storm & the Hurricanes'
(Thursday, September 28, 1972) — Singer Rory Storm, 34, of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, which featured drummer Ringo Starr before he quit to join The Beatles in August 1962, killed himself today in an apparent suicide pact with his mother. He reportedly couldn’t accept that his band didn’t enjoy the same success as other bands from the Liverpool scene.
Video: 'Comedy Playhouse - Are You Being Served? (Pilot)'
(Friday, September 8, 1972) — Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom set in the ladies’ and gentlemen’s clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store, debuted tonight on BBC1 in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse. It starred Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith.
