Beatles go it alone

Despite the break up of The Beatles, individual members were still doing well. Ringo Starr had his first solo hit with It Don’t Come Easy and George Harrison’s triple LP All Things Must Pass topped the American charts, with single My Sweet Lord becoming a transatlantic number 1.

Also in this year Michael Jackson had his first major solo hit with Got to be There and jazz mourned the death of singer-trumpeter Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.