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- Charles Wuorinen becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. January 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. Former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs. 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 neighbouring farmers. January 14 - Diana Ross and the Supremes perform for the last time together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. January 16 - John Lennon's London Art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs" 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 26 - Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. 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 28 - The newly formed group 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". February 11 The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, is premiered in New York City. The film's soundtrack album, including Badfinger's "Come and Get It", (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records. John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland. February 13 - Black Sabbath releases debut self-titled LP. It is Friday the 13th. February 14 - The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England. The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City. February 17 - Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London's Royal Albert Hall. She would be back performing concerts within a year. February 23 - Ringo Starr appears on the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. February 27 - Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. February 28 - Led Zeppelin performs in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, due to threats of lawsuits from Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin. March 4 - Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida. March 6 - Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled ' to help finance his defense. March 19 - David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett. March 21 - In Amsterdam, Dana wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song "All Kinds of Everything". She is elected to the European Parliament some 29 years later. March 26 - Peter Yarrow pleads guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington, D.C. April 2 - The London Magistrate's Court hears arguments on John Lennon's indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16. April 3 - Minneapolis nightclub the Depot opens, eventually renamed to First Avenue. April 10 - Paul McCartney publicly announced the break-up of The Beatles, though John Lennon had left in September the previous year. April 17 - Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon. April 20 - Paul McCartney's first solo album, McCartney, is released. April 24 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon's tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD. However, Slick is recognized (Although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list. May 8 - The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released. May 16 - Randy Bachman leaves The Guess Who to start up Bachman-Turner Overdrive. May 20 - The Beatles' movie Let It Be premières in London and Liverpool. None of the four band members are in attendance at either screening. May 23-24 - Grateful Dead make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath, Free, and Jose Feliciano. Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry, whose debut single "In the Summertime" becomes the best-selling hit of the year. June 13 "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain. The Stooges play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival. July 26 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience. August 3 - Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance on the Dick Cavett Show. August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull. August 30 - The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden. September 6 - During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans at his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States. September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from barbituate overdose at his London hotel at the age of 27. His last appearance was on September 17 with Eric Burdon & War jamming at Ronnie Scotts Club in London. October 4 - Janis Joplin dies from a heroin overdose at her Los Angeles hotel at the age of 27. October 30 - Jim Morrison of The Doors, found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behaviour during a March 1, 1969 concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labour and a $500 fine. Jimmy Buffett begins recording. Dalida, still unable to cut a UK record deal, leaves Barclay Records for Orlando Records. Derek Bailey and Evan Parker found Incus Records, specialising in releasing free improvised music and said to be the first independent artist-owned record label. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is widely considered the first successful full-fledged fusion of rock and roll and jazz, as well as being one Davis's best-known albums. Newly-independent Fiji adopts God Bless Fiji as its national anthem.
- Août : Sortie du premier album de Supertramp intitulé Supertramp 18 septembre : Mort de Jimi Hendrix, guitariste et chanteur américain, étouffé dans son vomi. 4 octobre : Mort de Janis Joplin,chanteuse américaine, d'une overdose. Novembre : formation du groupe ABBA, sortie le 4 du troisième album de Bowie The Man Who Sold The World contenant la chanson du même nom reprise par Nirvana. Le 24 décembre naissance de Will Oldham. * Sortie de l'Adagio à l'Europe de Didier Van Damme. Début d'un nouveau groupe québecois: Harmonium. Formation du groupe Aerosmith. A la suite de la dissolution de Smile, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor et Brian May fondent le groupe Queen.
- 1970年の音楽（1970ねんのおんがく）では、1970年（昭和45年）の音楽分野の動向についてまとめる。
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