Stevie Nicks released her first solo album, "Bella Donna", which contained the singles, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Tom Petty (US #3) and "Leather and Lace" with Don Henley (US #6).

Pink Floyd released their debut album, "The Piper At the Gates of Dawn", which would reach #6 in the UK. The LP did not contain the two singles released earlier in the year, "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play". It only managed to climb to #131 on The Billboard Hot 200 and took nearly twenty-seven years to be certified Gold when it received the honor in March, 1994.

Prince started a twenty-four week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 200 chart with his sixth album, "Purple Rain". The RIAA lists it as having gone 13X Platinum.

Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new band, Wings with his wife Linda on keyboards, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine.

Robert Allen Zimmerman emerged from the Supreme Court building at 111 Centre St. in downtown Manhattan with a new, legal name; Robert Dylan.

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" is released in the US, where it will become the number one song by mid-September. Record industry history was made when Checker's original hit recording re-entered the charts in the Fall of 1961 and by January of 1962, was back in the number one position. It was the first record ever to hit number one on two separate occasions.

The Eagles split up after Glenn Frey and Don Felder nearly broke into fisticuffs onstage in Long Beach, California. Angry at the way Felder spoke to Senator Alan Cranston earlier in the day, tensions were high onstage between the two. Frey later recalled. "We're out there singing 'Best of My Love', but inside both of us are thinking, 'As soon as this is over, I'm gonna kill him.' That was when I knew I had to get out." After the show ended, Felder smashed what Frey later described as "a cheap guitar" against the wall backstage and sped away in a limo. The group went their separate ways, with Frey enjoying a highly successful solo career in which he placed seven songs on the Billboard Top 40 between 1982 and 1988. Don Henley would do the same, putting ten singles on the chart between 1981 and 1992. As for Felder, he issued a low selling album, "Airborne" in 1983.

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