April 6 – The Rolling Stones hold a party in Cannes to officially announce their new contract with Atlantic and the launch of Rolling Stones Records.

April 3 – The 16th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, is won by Monaco with the song ' Un banc, un arbre, une rue' sung by Séverine.

Simon & Garfunkel win Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year for their final album Bridge over Troubled Water and its title track. The ceremonies are broadcast on live television for the first time.

March 16 – The 13th Grammy Awards, honoring musical accomplishments of 1970, are presented.

March 12–13 – The Allman Brothers Band records its live album, At Fillmore East.

March 6 – The Soul to Soul concert takes place in Accra, Ghana, headlined by Wilson Pickett.

March 5 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, sees the first live performance of Led Zeppelin's iconic song ' Stairway to Heaven'.

March 4 – The Rolling Stones open their UK tour in Newcastle upon Tyne, intended as a 'farewell' to the UK prior to the band's relocation to France as ' tax exiles'.

March 1 – The line-up for Queen is completed when bassist John Deacon joins the band.

February 19 – Queen performs their first public concert in London.

February 16 – Alan Passaro of the Hells Angels, who was acquitted on January 19 of the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, files a lawsuit against The Rolling Stones for invasion of privacy because the documentary film Gimme Shelter showed the stabbing.

The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour.

February 8 – Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, is premièred at New York's Academy of Music.February 3 – Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees.February 1 – After months of feuding in the press, Ginger Baker and Elvin Jones hold a 'drum battle' at The Lyceum.

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