Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, " American Pie ”, to commemorate Buddy Holly ’ s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States ’ innocence.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit processor released in 1971, but in 1973 the Intel 8080, an 8-bit processor, made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, possible.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra was released in 1971.

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures.

* 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

Led Zeppelin's fourth album was released on 8 November 1971.

The first single-chip microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable microprocessors becoming available over the next several years.

The band's debut album, REO Speedwagon, was released on Epic Records in 1971.

This motif is evidenced in the era of " paranoid soul " such as " Smiling Faces Sometimes " ( released by The Temptations in April 1971, and made a hit by The Undisputed Truth in July 1971 ), " I'll Take You There " ( The Staples Singers, 1972 ), " Don't Call Me Brother " ( The O ' Jays, 1973 ), " Back Stabbers " ( The O ' Jays ), and " You Caught Me Smilin ( Sly and the Family Stone, 1971 ).

* The Modern Lovers ( recorded September 1971 and March 1972, released 1976 )

In late December 1971, The Band recorded the live album Rock of Ages, which was released in the summer of 1972.

THX 1138 was released to theaters on March 11, 1971 and was initially commercially unsuccessful, earning back $ 945, 000 in rentals for Warner Bros, but still leaving the studio in the red.

The 1971 studio cut version has never been released on any home media format.

Tensions between members during the recording of 666 eventually caused the split of the band in 1971, but the album was still released in 1972.

In 1971, some jam sessions with a group of musicians at Marquee Studios in London had resulted in two albums ' worth of material, unofficially released without Vangelis ' permission in 1978, titled Hypothesis ( aka Visions of the Future ), and The Dragon.

In 1971, Ono released Fly – a double album.

The group's debut album, ZZ Top's First Album, was released in January 1971 ; the single, "( Somebody Else Been ) Shakin ' Your Tree ", peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by critics as a " Wellesian " wunderkind when his best-received film, The Last Picture Show, was released in 1971.

Mars 2 released the descent module 4. 5 hours before reaching Mars on November 27, 1971.

Mars 3's descent module was released at 09: 14 UT on December 2, 1971, 4 hours 35 minutes before reaching Mars.

Another early system, the Kenbak-1, was released in 1971.

He bemoaned the fact that the book had been taken as the source material for a 1971 film that was perceived to glorify sex and violence.

* Sunday Bloody Sunday ( film ), a 1971 film directed by John Schlesinger

He later appeared as a lonely teenager, Sterling North, in the 1969 Disney film, Rascal, and as Teft in the 1971 film Bless the Beasts and Children.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.

The casket appeared in one of Ed Wood's later works, the 1971 pornographic film, Necromania.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

* 1971 – Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director

* Dulcima, a 1971 British film

The first EVA in deep space was made on August 5, 1971, by American Al Worden, to retrieve a film and data recording canister from the Apollo 15 Service Module on the return trip from the Moon.

1971 documentary film about East Pakistan

Coppola co-produced George Lucas ’ s first film, THX 1138, in 1971.

Goya-Der lange Weg der Erkenntnis ( 1971 ) is an East German film directed by Konrad Wolf.

" In his autobiography written in 1971, Capra expressed of his feelings about the shifting film industry:

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

The film was based on a screenplay written by Colin Higgins and published as a novel in 1971.

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box.

* 1971 – John Mallory Asher, American film actor / director

( 1970 ) with several horror features: The Abominable Dr. Phibes ( 1971 ), with Vincent Price, and Soylent Green ( 1973 ), the last film featuring Edward G. Robinson.

* Henryk Borowski in the 1971 Polish film Epilogue at Nürnberg