Timeline Monday 19 April 1971

Events on Monday 19 April 1971 3

• 1971 "Pieces of a Man" First album with Brian Jackson Released "Pieces of a Man", recorded at RCA Studios in New York with Brian Jackson on piano, Ron Carter on bass, Bernard Purdie on drums and Hubert Laws on flute — widely regarded as his masterpiece, featuring "Lady Day and John Coltrane", "Home Is Where the Hatred Is" and "I Think I'll Call It Morning".
• 1971 Salyut 1 Launched World's first space station reaches orbit The Soviet Union launched Salyut 1, the first space station ever placed into orbit, opening a new phase of long-duration human spaceflight. Its only crew, the Soyuz 11 cosmonauts, spent 23 days aboard before dying during their return to Earth. The station later reentered the atmosphere in October 1971.
• 1971 The Doors release L.A. Woman Riders on the Storm Their last album with Morrison.