June 1, 1974 is a live album of songs performed at the Rainbow Theatre in London on the titular date.

The album is officially attributed to all principal performers Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico, although other well-known musicians, including Mike Oldfield, Robert Wyatt, and Ollie Halsall, also contributed to the concert.

[4] The cover photograph was taken by Mick Rock in the foyer of the Rainbow Theatre shortly before the concert began.

Other songs that were performed but did not make the LP include Ayers' "I've Got a Hard-On for You Baby" (with Cale on backing vocals), Cale's "Buffalo Ballet" and "Gun",[6] and Nico's "Janitor of Lunacy" and her rendition of "Das Lied der Deutschen".

[7] Nico’s performance of "Das Lied der Deutschen" was released as a bonus track on the 2012 reissue of her 1974 album The End....[8] Robert Christgau wrote of the record in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "The highlights of a concert organized by genial eccentric Kevin Ayers (ex-Soft Machine, but he got out when the getting was good), this offers one side of Ayers's genially eccentric songs and one of Eno singing Eno songs at full volume (note demonic cackle) and John Cale singing an Elvis Presley song at full volume (note lupine howl).