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March 4 – Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida.

February 28 – Led Zeppelin perform in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, to avoid a threatened lawsuit by Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

The King of Rock and Roll broke previous attendance records with a crowd of 36,299 - which was 10,000 more than the previous record.

February 28 – Elvis Presley performed at the Houston Astrodome.

February 27 – Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

February 23 – Ringo Starr appears on the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.She would be back performing concerts within a year. February 17 – Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London's Royal Albert Hall.The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City. February 14 – The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England.February 13 – English band Black Sabbath release their self titled debut album in the U.K., credited as the first major album in the heavy metal genre.The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's " Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records. February 11 – The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, is premiered in New York City.January 28 – The newly formed Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience "I'm sorry we just can't get it together".January 27 – Miles Davis makes the final recordings for his experimental album Circle in the Round, featuring sitar and tabla.The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including "Record of the Year", "Song of the Year", and "Album of the Year." In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s. January 26 – Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water.January 24 – James "Shep" Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway.January 16 – John Lennon's London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".January 14 – Diana Ross and the Supremes perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.John Bonham plays a fifteen-minute rendition of "Moby Dick".

January 9 – Led Zeppelin performs at The Royal Albert Hall.January 7 – Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers.January 4 – The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffeur with his Bentley trying to escape a mob outside a pub.January 3 – Ex- Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.