In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, a year before VHS format came out.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

In 1975 until when he continued to release singles, he released his first non-compilation LP 2023, a concept album that includes many instrumental songs.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

Three albums released in years 1975 and 1976 ( Caught in the Act, Movin ' On, Hot On The Tracks ) are considered the peak of their harder funk period.

The resulting film was the two and a half hour documentary La Spirale, released in 1975.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

The first of these was released in 1975, titled Caress of Steel.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

In 1975, Day released her autobiography, Doris Day: Her Own Story, an " as-told-to " work with A. E. Hotchner.

Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman " and " Strange Magic ".

It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.

* In addition, in 1974, Greg Lake ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ) wrote and recorded the song, " I Believe In Father Christmas ", which was released as a single in 1975.

Terror of Mechagodzilla, ( released in Japan as ) is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

The 1975 movie Inserts directed by John Byrum about a pornographic film production, which starred Richard Dreyfuss and was originally released with an X rating, took its name from the double meaning that " insert " both refers to this film technique ( often used in pornographic filmmaking ) and to sexual intercourse.

Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

His piece " American Standard " was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

In 1975, Moon released his only solo album, pop covers entitled Two Sides of the Moon.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in 1975 and was a critical failure until it started midnight screenings in the 1980s where it achieved cult status.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.

The five were convicted of the killing and imprisoned, but were released and returned to Israel in 1975.

* In 2004, Paramount bought all worldwide distribution rights to the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives ( also released by Columbia ), in connection with the release of the remake.

The first album to come out of this downtown scene was released in November 1975: Smith's debut, Horses, produced by John Cale for the major Arista label.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

In addition, John Lennon recorded a cover version of " Peggy Sue " on his 1975 album Rock ' n ' Roll.

He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Also from the Homeless Brother album, " Wonderful Baby " was a number 1 on the AOR chart in 1975 and was later recorded by Fred Astaire.

Her first real success came in 1975 with the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye, which established her as a disco artist.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

The rock band Queen used a ( toy ) koto in " The Prophet's Song " on their 1975 album A Night at the Opera.

In late 1975, Moon played drums on the track " Bo Diddley Jam " on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock ' n ' Roll all-star album.

In 1975, Led Zeppelin's double album Physical Graffiti, was their first release on the Swan Song label.

* Land ( 1975 – 2002 ), an album by Patti Smith

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.

* Nucleus ( Sonny Rollins album ), 1975