• Jan 10 -- Start of the trial after Paul's action.
• Jan 19 -- End of trial after Paul's action.
• Jan 21 -- John is interviewed by Jann Wenner, published in 2 issues of `Rolling Stone', under the title `Working Class Hero'. [?] The 2nd part of John's interview for `Rolling Stone' is published. [?]
• Feb 19 -- Royal Courts of Justice (Court 16), London. Beginning of Paul's trial against John, George and Ringo to seek the appointment of an official receiver to take over the Beatles' financial affairs and wrest control from Allen Klein.
• Mar 08 -- Recording of `Power To The People'.   -- UK single release: `Another Day'.
• Mar 10 -- Evening: According to a rumour, John, with George and Ringo, presented himself at Paul's Cavendish Avenue house and threw a brick to one of the windows.   -- A court names J. D. Spooner as trustee of the Beatles goods.
• Mar 12 -- UK single release: `Power To The People'/`Open Your Box'.   -- Royal Courts of Justice (Court 16), London. End of Paul's trial against  John, George and Ringo to seek the appointment of an official receiver to take over the Beatles' financial affairs and wrest control from Allen Klein.
• Mar 22 -- US single release: `Power To The People'/`Touch Me'.
• Apr 08 -- UK single release: `It Don't Come Easy'.
• Apr 16 -- UK single release: `It Don't Come Easy'/`Early 1970'.
• Apr 24 -- Spanish police retains John and Yoko in Palma de Mallorca, after Anthony Cox's accusation that they are trying to kidnap Kyoko, after Cox has  recovered her.
• May 15 -- Exhibition of the films `Apotheosis' and `Fly' in the Film Festival of Fortnight, France.
• May 21 -- UK LP release: `Ram'.
• Jun 06 -- John, Yoko and Frank Zappa with the Mothers of Invention, join during a show in Fillmore East, New York, for a jam session, recording which will appear on `Some Time In New York City'.
• Jun 18 -- UK LP release: `The Early Years'.
• Jul 15 -- Yoko signs copies of her book `Grapefruit' at the store Selfridges, on occasion of its re-release. John attends.
• Aug 01 -- First concert for Bangla Desh, at the Madison Square Garden.  -- John flies from New York to London.
• Aug 03 -- Paul forms `Wings'.
• Aug 11 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. Opening of `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 12 -- Second concert for Bangla Desh at the Madison Square Garden.  -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 13 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 14 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 15 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 16 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 17 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 18 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 19 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 20 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 21 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 22 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 23 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 24 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 25 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 26 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 27 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.    -- `Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey' number 1, 1st week, in USA.
• Aug 28 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 29 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Aug 30 -- Great Hall, Alexandra Palace, London. Closing of `Art Spectrum', modern art exhibition. 5 films of John and Yoko are screened: `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma!', `Up Your Legs Forever'.
• Sep 03 -- John leaves England.  -- Stella McCartney is born. [?] The name `Wings' comes into Paul's mind.
• Sep 05 -- The London Art Spectrum screens the films `Cold Turkey', `The Ballad Of John And Yoko', `Give Peace A Chance', `Instant Karma' and `Up Your Legs'.
• Sep 09 -- US LP release: `Imagine'.
• Sep 13 -- Stella Nina McCartney is born at the King's College Hospital, London.
• Sep 20 -- US LP release: `Fly'.
• Sep 24 -- John is interviewed on `The Dick Cavett Show'.
• Sep 29 -- US single release: `Mrs. Lennon'/`Midsummer New York'.
• Sep 30 -- First stereo remix of `Penny Lane'.
• Oct 01 -- US Gold certification: `Imagine' LP.
• Oct 08 -- UK LP release: `Imagine'.
• Oct 09 -- Opening of Yoko's exhibition `This Is Not Here' at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. John is guest artist.   -- John, Yoko, Ringo, Mal Evans, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector, Klaus Voorman, Neil Aspinal and Jim Keltner celebrate John's birthday in a New York hotel room. Drunken jam session.
• Oct 11 -- US single release: `Imagine'/`It's So Hard'.
• Oct 22 -- First stereo remix of `Baby You're A Rich Man'.
• Oct 27 -- Closing of Yoko's exhibition `This Is Not Here' at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York.
• Oct 29 -- UK single release: `Mrs. Lennon'/`Midsummer New York'.
• Oct 30 -- UK LP release: `Imagine'.
• Nov 08 -- Empire Ballroom, London. Party thrown by Paul and Linda to launch Wings.
• Dec 01 -- US single release: `Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'/`Listen The Snow Is Falling'.
• Dec 03 -- UK LP release: `Fly'.
• Dec 11 -- John Sinclair benefit concert at the 5000-seat University of Michigan Crysler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers, among others: John and Yoko, Commander Cody, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Ochs, David Peel, Stevie Wonder, and political activist Jerry Rubin on bongos.
• Dec 14 -- John Sinclair is released, because Michigan's penalties for possession of drugs had been reduced.
• Dec 22 -- A judge awards custody of Kyoko to her father. Yoko is permited to see her child frequently, but she must post a $20000 bond, in case she `kidnaps' the girl again.

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