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Music

100 Greatest Songs From 1973

Songs listed are from Rock 'n' Roll and related sub-genres. Rankings are based on initial and lasting popularity and on acclaim received from critics and musicians.

1	Free Bird	Lynyrd Skynyrd
2	Let's Get It On	Marvin Gaye
3	Midnight Train To Georgia	Gladys Knight and the Pips
4	Dream On	Aerosmith
5	Living For The City	Stevie Wonder
6	Money	Pink Floyd
7	Piano Man	Billy Joel
8	Killing Me Softly With His Song	Roberta Flack
9	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road	Elton John
10	That Lady	Isley Brothers
11	Angie	Rolling Stones
12	Bennie And The Jets	Elton John
13	The Joker	Steve Miller Band
14	Radar Love	Golden Earring
15	Drift Away	Dobie Gray
16	Higher Ground	Stevie Wonder
17	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan
18	Get Up, Stand Up	Wailers
19	Takin' Care Of Business	Bachman-Turner Overdrive
20	Ramblin' Man	Allman Brothers Band
21	Time	Pink Floyd
22	Were An American Band	Grand Funk
23	Band On The Run	Paul McCartney and Wings
24	Natural High	Bloodstone
25	When Will I See You Again	Three Degrees
26	The Payback	James Brown
27	Until You Come Back To Me	Aretha Franklin
28	Long Train Runnin'	Doobie Brothers
29	Over the Hills and Far Away	Led Zeppelin
30	You Make Me Feel Brand New	Stylistics
31	La Grange	ZZ Top
32	Desperado	Eagles
33	Jessica	Allman Brothers Band
34	Candle In the Wind	Elton John
35	Rosalita	Bruce Springsteen
36	Live And Let Die	Paul McCartney and Wings
37	Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up	Barry White
38	I Shot The Sheriff	Wailers
39	Daniel	Elton John
40	Jet	Paul McCartney and Wings
41	Love's Theme	Love Unlimited Orchestra
42	Rock The Boat	Hues Corporation
43	Ballroom Blitz	The Sweet
44	Jungle Boogie	Kool and the Gang
45	Bad Bad Leroy Brown	Jim Croce
46	Kodachrome	Paul Simon
47	Seasons In The Sun	Terry Jacks
48	Jolene	Dolly Parton
49	Hooked On A Feeling	Blue Swede
50	If You Want Me To Stay	Sly and the Family Stone
51	Come And Get Your Love	Redbone
52	For The Love Of Money	O'Jays
53	She's Gone	Daryl Hall and John Oates
54	Nutbush City Limits	Ike and Tina Turner
55	Search And Destroy	Stooges
56	Simple Man	Lynyrd Skynyrd
57	Us And Them	Pink Floyd
58	Dancing Machine	Jackson 5
59	Tequila Sunrise	Eagles
60	20th Century Boy	T. Rex
61	Yesterday Once More	Carpenters
62	I Can't Stand The Rain	Ann Peebles
63	Tubular Bells	Mike Oldfield
64	The Way We Were	Barbra Streisand
65	Can't You See	Marshall Tucker Band
66	Rocky Mountain Way	Joe Walsh
67	The Love I Lost	Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
68	Rock On	David Essex
69	TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)	MFSB featuring the Three Degrees
70	China Grove	Doobie Brothers
71	Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me	Gladys Knight and the Pips
72	Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding	Elton John
73	Call Me	Al Green
74	D'Yer Maker	Led Zeppelin
75	Keep On Truckin'	Eddie Kendricks
76	I Got A Name	Jim Croce
77	Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing	Stevie Wonder
78	No Quarter	Led Zeppelin
79	No More Mr. Nice Guy	Alice Cooper
80	Give Me Love	George Harrison
81	Here I Am (Come And Take Me)	Al Green
82	Cum On Feel the Noize	Slade
83	Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting	Elton John
84	I've Got To Use My Imagination	Gladys Knight and the Pips
85	Personality Crisis	New York Dolls
86	My Love	Paul McCartney and Wings
87	Mind Games	John Lennon
88	Love Reign O'er Me	The Who
89	Hollywood Swinging	Kool and the Gang
90	Behind Closed Doors	Charlie Rich
91	Photograph	Ringo Starr
92	Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree	Dawn
93	Loves Me Like A Rock	Paul Simon
94	Show And Tell	Al Wilson
95	Brother Louie	Stories
96	I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby	Barry White
97	Feelin' Stronger Every Day	Chicago
98	Right Place, Wrong Time	Dr. John
99	Brain Damage/Eclipse	Pink Floyd
100	Gimme Three Steps	Lynyrd Skynyrd
20 more worth mentioning.
101	The Most Beautiful Girl	Charlie Rich
102	Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers
103	Pillow Talk	Sylvia
104	Lady	Styx
105	Summer Breeze	Isley Brothers
106	Shambala	Three Dog Night
107	Half Breed	Cher
108	Diamond Girl	Seals And Crofts
109	Just You 'n' Me	Chicago
110	So Very Hard To Go	Tower of Power
111	Doin' It To Death	Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s
112	I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song	Jim Croce
113	Blockbuster	The Sweet
114	I'll Always Love My Mama	Intruders
115	Touch Me In The Morning	Diana Ross
116	Midnight At The Oasis	Maria Muldaur
117	Rock And Roll, Hoochie Coo	Rick Derringer
118	One Of A Kind (Love Affair)	Spinners
119	Get Down	Gilbert O'Sullivan
120	You're Sixteen	Ringo Starr

Significant News Events from Senior Year

1972

September

Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first American world chess champion.
Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members of the Arab terrorist group Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue.

October

The first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.
^{A major breakthrough occurs in the Paris peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ.}
^{The Oakland Athletics defeat the Cincinnati Reds four games to three to capture Major League Baseball's World Series. It is the Athletics' first championship since 1930, when the franchise was in Philadelphia.}

^November

^{At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA. They publish their results in November 1973 in PNAS. Separately in 1972, Paul Berg also recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially biotechnology, and opened the door to genetically modified organisms.}
^{The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time}

^December

^{Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched and The Blue Marble photograph of the Earth is taken. The mission also includes five mice. Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This is currently the last manned mission to the Moon.}
^{For the first and last time, a 2nd leap second is added (23:59:60) to a year, making 1972 366 days and two seconds long, the longest year ever within the context of UTC.}

1973

January

The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords
Richard Nixon is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (1969, 1973) and Vice President of the United States (1953, 1957).
George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship.

February

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Only 5 (1 crew member and 4 passengers) of 113 survive.

March

Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
A referendum is held in Northern Ireland over whether to reunite with the Republic of Ireland or to stay a part of the UK. The result was 98% remain. The Provisional Irish Republican Army responds to the referendum by planting four car bombs in London on the same day, two of which went off, causing one death and injuring over 200 people.
At the 45th Academy Awards, The Godfather wins best picture

April

The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.
Pioneer 11 is launched on a mission to study the Solar System.
Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees becomes the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball.

May

The Sears Tower in Chicago, United States, is topped-out, becoming the world's tallest building at 1,451 feet (442 m).
Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.

June

A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
A very long total solar eclipse occurs. During the entire second millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.
127 members of the Newark Valley Class of 1973 graduate and move into the next phases of their lives.