This is a summary of1975 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

• 13 February – The filmSlade in Flame, starring the members ofSlade, premieres at the Metropole Theatre in London.
• 2 March – Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to bePaul McCartney and his wifeLinda. Linda is arrested for having 170 to 225 grams (six to eight ounces) ofmarijuana in her pocketbook.
• 22 March –The Shadows represent the UK in theEurovision Song Contest inStockholm, Sweden. They come second.
• 26 March – The film version ofthe Who'sTommy premieres in London.
• 7 April –Ritchie Blackmore plays his final show withDeep Purple in Paris before quitting to form his own group,Rainbow.
• 24 April –Pete Ham, founder of the groupBadfinger, is found hanged in his garage at home inWoking, Surrey.^[1] His death is ruled a suicide.
• 1 May –The Rolling Stones announce their forthcoming North American tour by performing "Brown Sugar" from a flatbed truck onFifth Avenue inNew York City. The occasion was guitaristRonnie Wood's debut with the band.
• 4 August –Robert Plant and his wife Maureen are seriously injured in a car accident while vacationing on the Greek island ofRhodes. The immediate future ofLed Zeppelin is cast into doubt, as Plant will not recover for quite some time.
• 23 August –Peter Gabriel leaves progressive rock groupGenesis.
• 3 October –The Who release their seventh studio albumThe Who By Numbers.
• 7 October –John Lennon finally wins his battle to stay in the United States after theNew York Court of Appeals overturns Lennon's 1972 deportation order.
• 9 October –John Lennon andYoko Ono become parents ofSean Ono Lennon at 2:00 AM. The birth heralds the beginning of John's temporary retirement from the music business as he vows to devote himself to family for the next five years.
• 31 October –Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is released. It goes to number one for nine weeks, and as of 2015 is the biggest-selling non-charity single in UK history.
• 6 November – TheSex Pistols play their first concert atSt. Martin's School of Art in London.
• 18 December – The official break-up of theFaces is announced at a London press conference.Rod Stewart continues his solo career whileRonnie Wood joinsthe Rolling Stones.
• 25 December –Iron Maiden is formed inLeyton, east London, by bassistSteve Harris.

Sales between 30 December 1974 and 5 December 1975.^[3][4]

The list of the top fifty best-selling albums of 1975 was published inMusic Week in the issue dated 27 December 1975 and inRecord Mirror &Disc magazine in the issue dated 10 January 1976, and reproduced in the first edition of theBPI Year Book in 1976. However, in 2007 theOfficial Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1975 is shown below.^[5]

Notes:

• Benjamin Britten –
  • Phaedra
  • String Quartet No. 3

• Stanley Myers –Conduct Unbecoming, starringMichael York,Richard Attenborough andTrevor Howard

• The Who –Tommy

• 3 January – Rebecca Onslow, singer (Solid HarmoniE)
• 6 January –Gabriel Prokofiev, Russian-British composer
• 7 January – Neil Watts, singer (Code Red)
• 9 January – Glen Clarke, Irish singer (OTT)
• 13 January –Jason King, radio DJ
• 15 January –Edith Bowman, radio DJ
• 19 January – Kule T, singer (MN8)
• 24 January
  • Isobel Cooper, soprano
  • Paul Marazzi, singer (A1)
• 28 January –Lee Latchford-Evans, singer (Steps)
• 12 March –Kéllé Bryan, singer (Eternal)
• 17 March –Justin Hawkins, vocalist (The Darkness)
• 25 March –Melanie Blatt, singer (All Saints)
• 1 April –Suzy Klein, music writer and presenter
• 23 May –Darren Styles, record producer
• 29 May –Melanie Brown, singer (Spice Girls)
• 4 June –Russell Brand, radio DJ
• 18 June –Jem, Welsh singer-songwriter and producer
• 23 June –KT Tunstall, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 9 July –Shona Fraser, British-born music journalist
• 18 July –M.I.A., rapper and producer
• 15 August – Phillip Rodell, singer (Code Red)
• 4 September –Mark Ronson, DJ and music producer
• 8 September –Richard Hughes, drummer (Keane)
• 23 September –Chris Hawkins, radio DJ
• 9 October –Sean Ono Lennon, son ofJohn Lennon andYoko Ono
• 14 October –Shaznay Lewis, singer (All Saints)
• 25 October –Melissa Graham, singer (Solid HarmoniE)
• 5 November –Lisa Scott-Lee, singer (Steps)
• 14 November –Faye Tozer, singer (Steps)
• 25 November –Paul Mealor, composer
• 29 November – Alan Fitzsimons, Irish singer (OTT)
• 12 December –Michael Harwood, guitarist (Ultra)

• 8 February –Martyn Green, actor and singer, 75
• 13 February –Eric Thiman, composer, 74
• 13 March –Jeannie Robertson, folk singer, 66/67
• 27 March – SirArthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Musick, 83
• 14 April –Michael Flanders, lyricist, actor, humorist and singer (Flanders and Swann), 53 (intracranial berry aneurysm)
• 15 April –John D. H. Greenwood, film composer, 75
• 21 April – SirJack Westrup, musicologist, writer, teacher and occasional conductor and composer, 70
• 24 April –Pete Ham, singer and songwriter (Badfinger), 27 (suicide)
• 26 April –Godfrey Winham, English-born US music theorist and composer of contemporary classical music, 40
• 2 August –Muir Mathieson, conductor and composer, 64 (oesophageal cancer)^[6]
• 13 November –Lambert Williamson, composer and conductor, 68

• 1975 in British radio
• 1975 in British television
• 1975 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1975

• 1975 in British music
• 1975 in music
• British music by year

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