1972
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1972 (MCMLXXII) is the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE), the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
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Art and culture
- Situationist International (1957-1972) disbands
- Porno chic trend starts
- Deep Throat opens to the raincoat crowd in June, 1972, at the New World Theater on 49th Street.
- Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Italian design exhibition in New York
- Ways of Seeing, BBC television documentary and book by John Berger
- Making Chicken Soup, a photo book by Les Krims
Literature
Fiction
- Mieke Maaike's obscene jeugd by L. P. Boon
- Chimera by John Barth
- The Breast by Philip Roth
- 334 by Thomas M. Disch
Non-fiction
- Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
- The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
- Homo Necans by Walter Burkert
Art
- Seedbed performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci in New York.
Film
- Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull
- Deliverance by John Boorman
- Deep Throat by Gerard Damiano
- The Last House on the Left by Wes Craven
- Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci
- La cabina by Antonio Mercero
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog
- Pink Flamingos by John Waters
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie by Luis Buñuel
- Fat City by John Huston
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) by Woody Allen
- Boxcar Bertha by Martin Scorsese
- Play It Again, Sam by Herbert Ross
Documentary
- Acéra ou le bal des sorcières by Jean Painlevé
Music
- After hour clubs
- "Continental Baths was getting popular around the time I started at Better Days (may/july 1972). Larry Levan was just getting started at that time."--Tee Scott
- Blaxploitation
- 1972 saw the artistic peak of the blaxploitation soundtrack. Several of America's biggest black artists were working on soundtracks simultaneously.
- Glam rock
- Glam rock, androgyny, David Bowie, New York Dolls
- Nuggets
- Rock critic (and future Patti Smith guitarist) Lenny Kaye first defined and named the movement in 1972 as compiler of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. This legendary double album was perhaps the first collection of older recordings to treat the music as worthy of lasting attention and not just as a quickly fading "oldie but goodie" memory.
- Dub
- In 1972, encouraged by Bunny Lee, King Tubby, an electronics engineer and sound system owner, began to mix records in four-track, and by late 1973 his name graced many b-side ' versions' (the name is a corruption of instrumental version, or 'Version 2') of other people's records, notably those of Bunny Lee and Lee Perry. --Colin Larkin, 1998
Singles
- Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango
- Shakara by Fela Kuti
- Le Voyageur by Heldon
- The Mexican by Babe Ruth
- Jungle Fever by The Chakachas
- Wild Safari by Barrabás
- People Make the World Go Round by The Stylistics
- Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano
- Pusherman by Curtis Mayfield
- Girl You Need A Change Of Mind by Eddie Kendricks
- City, Country, City by War
- New Bell by Manu Dibango
- Why Can't We Live Together by Timmy Thomas
- Work To Do by The Isleys
- Think (About It) by Lyn Collins
- Taj Mahal by Jorge Ben
- ¿Por qué te vas? by Jeanette Dimech
- Troglodyte (Cave Man) by Jimmy Castor
- Goin' To See My Baby by Fatback Band
- Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
Albums
- Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 by Various
- Harvest by Neil Young
- Open and Close by Fela Kuti
- Clube da Esquina by Milton Nascimento
- Africa's Blood by Lee "Scratch" Perry
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie
- Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones
- Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango
- Greetings from L. A. by Tim Buckley
- Transformer by Lou Reed
- On the Corner by Miles Davis
Births
- Theo Parrish (1972 - )
- Alejandro Amenábar (1972 - )
Deaths
- Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
- Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972)
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 - 1972)
- Violette Leduc (1907 - 1972)
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