1973 was a great year for rock!
Some great debuts!Aerosmith, Aerosmith
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Queen, Queen
New York Dolls, New York Dolls
Roger Daltrey, Daltrey
Some fantastic live albums!Badger, One live Badger (also a debut album, with Tony Kaye)
Genesis, Genesis Live
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Between Nothingness and Eternity
Yes, Yessongs
Black Oak Arkansas, Raunch 'N' Roll Live
Focus, At the Rainbow
Jefferson Airplane, Thirty Seconds Over Winterland
Ten Years After, Recorded Live
Uriah Heep, Uriah Heep Live
Wishbone Ash, Live Dates
Some real gems in prog rock and prog-related studio albums!Camel, Camel
Can, Future Days
Caravan, For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Curved Air, Air Cut
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis, Selling England by the Pound
Gentle Giant, In a Glass House
Gong, Flying Teapot
Gong, Angel's Egg
Greenslade, Greenslade
Greenslade, Bedside Manners Are Extra
Hawkwind, Space Ritual
Henry Cow, Legend
Jethro Tull, A Passion Play
King Crimson, Larks' Tongues in Aspic
Magma, Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Birds of Fire
Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells with Mick Taylor
Peter Hammill, Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
Procol Harum, Grand Hotel
Renaissance, Ashes Are Burning
Rick Wakeman, The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, (No Pussyfooting)
Soft Machine, Six
Soft Machine, Seven
Tangerine Dream, Atem
The Strawbs, Bursting at the Seams
Vangelis, Earth
Yes, Tales from Topographic Oceans
And of course some f- great rocking (and not rockin' at all) records!Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper, Muscle of Love
Alvin Lee, On the Road to Freedom
Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Bachman–Turner Overdrive, Bachman–Turner Overdrive II
Beck, Bogert & Appice, Beck, Bogert & Appice
Black Oak Arkansas, High on the Hog
Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Bob Dylan, Dylan
Bruce Springsteen, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Buckingham Nicks, Buckingham Nicks
Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, Love Devotion Surrender
David Bowie, Aladdin Sane
David Bowie, Pin Ups
Deep Purple, Who Do We Think We Are
Derek and the Dominos, In Concert
Donovan, Live in Japan: Spring Tour 1973
Donovan, Cosmic Wheels
Donovan, Essence to Essence
Dr. John, In the Right Place
Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert
Faces, Ooh La La
Family, It's Only a Movie
Fleetwood Mac, Penguin
Fleetwood Mac, Mystery to Me
Foghat, Rock and Roll
Frank Zappa, Over-Nite Sensation
Free, Heartbreaker
George Harrison, Living in the Material World
Grand Funk Railroad, We're an American Band
Grateful Dead, Wake of the Flood
Humble Pie, Eat It (one of the four sides is live, explosive!!!)
John Entwistle, Rigor Mortis Sets In
John Lennon, Mind Games
Johnny Winter, Still Alive and Well
Kevin Ayers, Bananamour
Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
Leon Russell, Looking Back
Little Feat, Dixie Chicken
Lou Reed, Berlin
Lynyrd Skynyrd, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
Man, Back into the Future
Mott the Hoople, Mott
Nazareth, Razamanaz
Nazareth, Loud 'n' Proud
Neil Young, Time Fades Away
Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and David Freiberg, Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun
Paul Kossoff, Back Street Crawler
Paul McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run
Peter Frampton, Frampton's Camel
Robin Trower, Twice Removed from Yesterday
Santana, Welcome
Slade, Sladest
Spooky Tooth, You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw
Spooky Tooth, Witness
Steve Miller Band, The Joker
Styx, Styx II
The Allman Brothers Band, Brothers and Sisters
The Band, Moondog Matinee
The J. Geils Band, Bloodshot
The J. Geils Band, Ladies Invited
The Kinks, Preservation Act 1
The Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup
The Who, Quadrophenia
Traffic, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory
Traffic, On the Road
Uriah Heep, Sweet Freedom
West, Bruce and Laing, Whatever Turns You On
Wishbone Ash, Wishbone Four
Yoko Ono, Approximately Infinite Universe
Yoko Ono, Feeling the Space
ZZ Top, Tres Hombres
Well, some other stuff (blues rock, jazz rock, folk rock, pop and reggae) released in 1973!Canned Heat, The New Age
Chicken Shack, Unlucky Boy
John Mayall, Ten Years Are Gone
Rory Gallagher, Tattoo
Rory Gallagher, Blueprint
Savoy Brown, Jack the Toad
New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Adventures of Panama Red
Fairport Convention, Rosie
Fairport Convention, Nine
Incredible String Band, No Ruinous Feud
The Byrds, Byrds
Blood, Sweat & Tears, No Sweat
Chicago, Chicago VI
If, Double Diamond
Tower of Power, Tower of Power (debut)
Bob Marley & The Wailers, Catch a Fire