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== 1970 ==
*1970: [[Texas Revolution]]
*February 1970: Recording begins for [[Mayo Thompson]]'s first solo album
*1970: Thompson forms group [[Saddlesore]] *1970: Thompson releases his first solo album ''[[Corky's Debt to His Father]]'' with Barthelme and others
*July 1970: [[Frederick Barthelme]]'s first book, ''[[Rangoon]]'', illustrated by Mayo Thompson is published by Winter House
*1970: [[Texas Revolution]] releases Thompson's his first solo album ''[[Corky's Debt to His Father]]''
*1970: [[Texas Revolution]] releases Saddlesore's first and last single ''[[Old Tom Clark (single)|Old Tom Clark]]''
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File:Rangoon-front.jpg|''[[Rangoon]]'' cover art, 1970
File:Corky-front.png|''[[Corky's Debt to His Father]]'' cover art, 1970
File:Corky-back.jpg|Back cover
File:Old-Tom-Clark-front.jpg|''[[Old Tom Clark (single)|Old Tom Clark]]'' label, 1970
File:Corky-Saddlesore-Stone-ad.jpeg|Ad in ''Rolling Stone'', January 7, 1971    
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== 1971 ==

* January 7, 1971: Ad in Rolling Stone for ''[[Corky's Debt to His Father]]'' and ''[[Old Tom Clark (single)|Old Tom Clark]]''
* Spring 1971: Winter House's projected release date for [[Mayo Thompson]]'s first book ''Regular Everything II.'' (Regular Everything was a chapter of illustrations in ''[[Rangoon]]''). The book was never released. In 2015, illustrations from the book were included in Thompson's exhibition [[8th Floor|''8th Floor'']].
* August 1971: Thompson hosts a radio show on Pacifica KPFT-FM 90.1<ref>https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>

== 1972 ==
*1972: Thompson forms new group [[The Rockin' Blue Diamonds]]
*May - July 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds perform each week at The Old Quarter
*1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds record a demo for John Fahey's Takoma Records which he does not accept
*July 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds' equipment is stolen
*August 3, 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds perform an acoustic set on the KPFT Free Music Store radio program
*1972: Thompson illustrates a William H Gass short story for ''Fiction''
[[Shows/1972]]

== 1973 ==
*Thompson visits Greece to record with [[Manos Hadjidakis]]; doesn't happen
*Thompson becomes an assistant to [[Robert Rauschenberg]] along with [[Christine Kozlov]]
*Writing for Art & Language's "Music-Language" project begins

== 1974 ==
*1974: ''Robert Rauschenberg in Israel''
*1974: ''[[Done To]]''

== 1975 ==
*September 1975: ''[[Mostly About Rauschenberg]]'' premieres

== 1976 ==
*May 1976: ''[[The Fox No. 3|The Fox 3]]''
*June 1976: [[(Provisional) Art & Language]] exhibition
*June 1976: {{RLink|Corrected}}
*June 1976: {{RLink|Nine}}
*October 1976: ''[[Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4]]''
*1976 October/November: Filming for {{RLink|Now}}

== 1977 ==

* April 27, 1977: First screening of ''[[Struggle in New York]]''
* October 1977: ''[[Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2]]''

== 1978 ==
*May 1978: Mayo Thompson meets Pere Ubu
*July 1978: Recording session: "[[Wives in Orbit]]", "[[Yik Yak]]", "[[Hurricane Fighter Plane]]"
*[[Radar Records]] reissues of [[The Parable of Arable Land|''The Parable of Arable Land'']] and [[God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It|''God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It'']]
*October 1978: {{RLink|4}} promo and {{RLink|Howdy}}
*October 1978: {{RLink|Hurricane}}
*October 1978: {{RLink|Wives}}
*November 1978: UK Ubu Dance Party tour
*December 1978: Red Ubu tour

== 1979 ==
*March 1979: {{RLink|Soldier}}
*1979: Thompson producing The Raincoats featured on ''South Bank Show'' S2E02: Rough Trade<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loydtQRR4eA</ref>
*October 1979: {{RLink|Micro}}

== 1980s ==

* [[Timeline/1980s]]

== References ==

* [[Timeline/1960s]]
* [[Timeline/1980s]]
* [[Timeline/1990s]]
* [[Timeline/2000s]]
* [[Timeline/2010s]]
* [[Timeline/2020s]]