Beatles go it alone

Despite the break up of The Beatles, individual members were still doing well. Ringo Starr had his first solo hit with It Don�t Come Easy and George Harrison�s triple LP All Things Must Pass topped the American charts, with single My Sweet Lord becoming a transatlantic number 1.

Also in this year Michael Jackson had his first major solo hit with Got to be There and jazz mourned the death of singer-trumpeter Louis �Satchmo� Armstrong.