The organisation was founded in 1971 by a group of four drinkers — Graham Lees, Bill Mellor, Michael Hardman, and Jim Makin — who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.

From 1966 to 1971, Jones was a member of The Monkees, a pop-rock group formed expressly for a television show of the same name.

After the band disbanded in 1971, Jones reunited with Micky Dolenz as well as Monkees songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart in 1974 as a short-lived group called Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart.

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.

* Black September – Black September was a group formed by leading Fatah members in 1971, following the " Black September " events in Jordan, to clandestinely organize attacks that Fatah did not want to be openly associated with.

Ingo Rechenberg and his group were able to solve complex engineering problems through evolution strategies as documented in his 1971 PhD thesis and the resulting 1973 book.

* Intercourse ( The Tokens album ), a 1971 album by American vocal group The Tokens

The group won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy ( previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix ) in 1971.

" In 1971 she attached herself to the radical ex-convict group United Prisoners Union and dropped out of school.

In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.

In 1971 the group sent a reel-to-reel tape to Hal Halverstadt at Warner Brothers, since he had worked with Captain Beefheart ( one of the group's musical heroes ).

On March 1, 1971, a bomb exploded on the ground floor of the Capitol, placed by the radical left domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground.

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.

* April 25 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper ; one-third of the multi-platinum girl group TLC ( b. 1971 )

Other long-term members of the group included Peter Baumann ( 1971 – 1977 ), who later went on to found the New Age label Private Music, to which the band was signed from 1988 to 1991 ; Johannes Schmoelling ( 1979 – 1985 ); Paul Haslinger ( 1986 – 1990 ); and, most recently Froese's son Jerome Froese ( 1990 – 2006 ).

In 1964 an American secondary company was founded with the name Coldelite U. S. A., in 1971 Carpigiani bought Cattabriga ( concurrent firm ), in 1989 the Comenda Ali S. p. A. group bought the Carpigiani Bruto S. p. A.

He became the new leader of the VVD: in 1971 he became the new Parliamentary group leader, and in 1972 he was appointed lijsttrekker.

Derrida's subsequent distance from the Tel Quel group, after 1971, has been attributed to his reservations about their embrace of Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

He first joined Yes in 1971 to replace Tony Kaye, and left the group in 1974 to work on his solo career.

In 1970 and 1971, Wakeman was part of the folk rock group Strawbs.

His first concert with the group took place in Leicester on 30 September 1971.

Between 1971 and 1974, a group of 15 nuclear supplier states held a series of informal meetings in Vienna chaired by Professor Claude Zangger of Switzerland.

A 58-year-old former mathematics student living underground since 1971, Alexandros Giotopoulos, was identified as the group leader and was arrested on 17 July 2002 on the island of Lipsi.

Active only from 1971 – 1980, the anarchist group was one of the few violent groups at the time in West Germany.

Rising from the ashes of political group Kommune 1 and violent extremist group Tupamaros West-Berlin, Movement 2 June was formed in 1971.

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.

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, 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.