In 1974, German electronic music band Kraftwerk released the 22-minute song " Autobahn ," which takes up the entire first side of that LP.

It features mostly new material, plus re-recordings of four very obscure Devo songs: " I Need A Chick " and " I Been Refused " ( from Hardcore Devo: Volume Two ), " Find Out " ( which appeared on the single and EP of " Peek-A-Boo " in 1982 ), and " Beehive " ( which was recorded by the band in 1974, at which point it was apparently abandoned with the exception of one appearance at a special show in 2001 ).

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.

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

In 1974, Taner Öngür and Ayzer Danga left the band.

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

In 1974, as well, the Detroit band Death — made up of three African-American brothers — recorded " scorching blasts of feral ur-punk ," but couldn't arrange a release deal.

In April 1974, Patti Smith, a member of the Mercer Arts Center crowd and a friend of Hell's, came to CBGB for the first time to see the band perform.

" The band played its first gig at CBGB on August 16, 1974, on the same bill as another new act, Angel and the Snake, soon to be renamed Blondie.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour.

With the aid of Danniels and the newly enlisted engineer Terry Brown, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1974, which was considered highly derivative of Led Zeppelin.

Immediately after the release of the debut album in 1974, Rutsey was forced to leave the band due to health difficulties ( stemming from diabetes ) and his general distaste for touring.

His last performance with the band was on July 25, 1974 at Centennial Hall in London, Ontario.

Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, two weeks before the group's first U. S. tour.

In 1974 the band added a second guitarist, Richard Lloyd, and changed their name to Television.

In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

Journey To the Centre of the Earth ( 1974 ) and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ( 1975 ) made use of symphony orchestras and choirs along with his band.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

The original band existed from 1970 to 1974 but their recordings were not released until 1976 or later.

They continued to perform live for a few months with new drummer Bob Turner, but Richman was increasingly unwilling to perform his old ( although still unreleased ) songs such as “ Roadrunner ”, and after a final disagreement between him and Harrison over musical style the band split up in February 1974.

A second wave of glam rock acts, including Suzi Quatro, Roy Wood's Wizzard and Sparks, dominated the British single charts from about 1974 to 1976.

Other examples include Vaughan Williams ' Songs of Travel, Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs ( 1953 ) and Despite and Still, and Songfest by Leonard Bernstein, Hammarskjöld Portrait ( 1974 ), Les Olympiques ( 1976 ), Tribute to a Hero ( 1981 ), Next Year in Jerusalem ( 1985 ), and A Year of Birds ( 1995 ) by Malcolm Williamson, Honey and Rue by André Previn ( composed for the American soprano Kathleen Battle ) and Raising Sparks by James MacMillan ( 1997 ).

His debut single, " This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us ", a cover of the 1974 hit by Sparks, was released on 15 August and reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.

Sparks are best known for the songs " This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us ", which reached number 2 in the British charts in 1974, " When I'm With You " which topped the French Charts in 1980, and " When Do I Get To Sing ' My Way '" which topped the German and European charts in 1994 / 95 and was the top airplay record in Germany for 1994.

The original Sparks ' version is from their 1974 classic LP, " Kimono My House.

* Propaganda ( Sparks album ), 1974

The first, in 2005, was a cover of Sparks ' 1974 UK hit, " This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us ".

Besides Dire Straits, Winwood had earlier produced the hit album, Kimono My House ( 1974 ), and attaching hit single, " This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us " for Sparks.

When Atwood and other core members of the SLA were killed in 1974 during a standoff with police near Watts, California following their murder of the Oakland school superintendent, the Soliahs organized memorial rallies, including a rally in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park where Soliah spoke in support of her friend Atwood, while being covertly filmed by the FBI.

Working alongside Alan Parker, Hugh Hudson, and cinematographer Hugh Johnson Ridley Scott made many commercials at RSA during the 1970s, including a notable 1974 Hovis advert, " Bike Round " ( featuring New World Symphony ), filmed in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Four of his films, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), were filmed entirely on location within Mexico, while The Getaway ( 1972 ) concludes with a couple escaping to freedom there.

On March 31, 1974, Ellison received a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the original script ( the pilot script as originally written, not the version that was filmed ).

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

After the unsuccessful Hollywood melodrama, Ash Wednesday, he filmed three Italian productions released in 1973 and 1974.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.

In 1974, Steven Spielberg filmed the movie Jaws on Martha's Vineyard most notably in the fishing village of Menemsha and the town of Chilmark.

The Godfather Part II was shot between October 1, 1973 and June 19, 1974, and was the last major American motion picture to be printed with Technicolor's dye imbibition process until the late 1990s and was the last major American motion picture filmed in Technicolor.

The 1974 film, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was filmed in and around Linden.

A scene in the 1974 movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, was filmed in Vian.

Portions of the 1974 feature film Sugarland Express directed by Steven Spielberg were filmed in Floresville.

Parts of the 1974 John Wayne film " McQ ' were filmed in and around Aberdeen, including a night club sequence shot in a building on Wishkah Street that had, at one time, been a bank.

Merchant took the role of Madame in the Greenwich Theatre revival of Jean Genet's The Maids partnering Glenda Jackson and Susannah York: this was filmed in 1974 by Christopher Miles.

It was filmed in Israel, where Jewison also produced the western Billy Two Hats ( 1974 ), starring Gregory Peck.

* The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( the original version, directed by Tobe Hooper which had a 1974 theatrical release ) was filmed in and around Round Rock with the majority of shooting occurring in a dilapidated two-story farmhouse on Quick Hill Road, and is now the site of the La Frontera commercial development.

The BBC also used the studio facilities at Ealing for filmed inserts where the electronic studio could not be used, such as for the excavation site in Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ), The White Rabbit ( TV mini-series, 1967 ), Colditz ( 1972 – 74 ) and the communal sequences in Porridge ( 1974 – 77 ).

A year after this programme was broadcast, the BBC in 1974 filmed its own similar 12-episode programme, called The Family, focusing on the working-class Wilkins family, of Reading, Berkshire, England.

* Some scenes in the 1974 cult classic film Death Wish, including the infamous climatic gun battle, were filmed in Riverside Park

The 1974 episode " A Day Out ", which features a prison work party, was filmed in and around the Welsh village of Penderyn, the prisoners ' ' ditch ' being excavated by a JCB.

There is also a filmed record of her Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( 1974 ) with Richard Johnson as Antony.

His first novel, Dead Cert, was filmed under the same title in 1974.

* Part of the 1974 film Gone in 60 Seconds was filmed on Fourth Street in Dunkirk.

The character's adventures were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action ( the first series was performed and broadcast live ), also called Captain Pugwash, first shown on the BBC in 1957, a later colour series, first shown in 1974 – 75, and a traditional animation series, The Adventures of Captain Pugwash, first aired in 1998.