1979 in music

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Years in music:	1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
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Years:	1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982

See also:

1 Events
2 Timeline
3 Albums released
4 Chronological Table of US and UK Number One Hit Singles
5 Other significant singles
6 Published popular music
7 Classical music
8 Opera
9 Musical theater
10 Musical films
11 Births
12 Deaths
13 Awards

[edit] Events

Stevie Wonder uses Compact Disc technology in recording his album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants.

EMI's first digital recording - at Abbey Road Studios - of a non-classical music track is released - UK jazz-funk duo Morrissey-Mullen covered the Rose Royce hit Love Don't Live Here Anymore. Released as a limited edition vinyl EP.

Disco reigned supreme in 1979, with several #1 hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer that year. Several artists who were not regarded as dance/disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco singles, including New Wave band Blondie with their first US number one single "Heart Of Glass", Rod Stewart with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" and rock band Electric Light Orchestra went disco this year with their UK #1 LP Discovery.

The backlash against disco among rock loyalists was also peaking. An anti-disco event in Chicago, Illinois ultimately forced the cancellation of a major league baseball game. When The Knack's song "My Sharona" hit Billboard's #1 for six weeks, many rock critics gushed that the band was "the next Beatles" and celebrated the beginning of the end for disco music. While 1979 may have marked the climax of disco, it was also the only popular year for The Knack, who quickly faded into obscurity.

One event of 1979 which would have later significance was the success of the single "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, which marked the commercial emergence of hip hop music.

Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers' Bustin' Loose was released; this is the first go go record.

[edit] Timeline

January 1
- Bill Graham closes San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom following a New Year's Eve performance by the Blues Brothers and the Grateful Dead
- During a New Year's Eve concert in Cleveland, Ohio, Bruce Springsteen is injured when a fire-cracker is thrown onstage from the audience
January 4 - The Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, best known for its connections to the early days of the Beatles, reopens.
January 13 - Singer Donny Hathaway dies after falling 15 storeys from his hotel room in New York City. According to Hathaway's record company, Atlantic, the singer had been having some psychological problems.
January 15 - MCA Records purchases ABC Records for a reported $20 million.
February 3 - Dead Man's Curve, a made-for-TV-movie about surf-rock singers Jan & Dean, airs on US television
The Strange Case Of Alice Cooper, featuring footage from the Mad House Rock Tour, is filmed.
February 7 - The Clash kick off their first concert on their first American tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre outside San Francisco, California. Bo Diddley opens the show and the Clash open their set with the song "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.".
February 10 - Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" hits #1 on the Billboard magazine charts, and stays there for 4 weeks.
February 11 - 43 million viewers watch "Elvis!" on ABC, a made for TV movie starring Kurt Russell as Elvis.
February 15 Minnie Riperton appears on the Grammys as a presenter with Stephen Bishop. The Bee Gees collect 4 Grammys for Saturday Night Fever.
February 23 - Dire Straits begin their first U.S. tour in Boston.
February 24 - Friedrich Cerha's completion of Alban Berg's opera Lulu is premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris
March 21 - The Pretenders sign a contract with Sire Records
March 5 - MCA Records dissolves ABC Records.
March 10 - James Brown performs at the Grand Ole Opry
March 27 - Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd, ex-wife of Clapton's friend George Harrison
March 31 - The Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe - Israel. The amazing show is broadcast live from Jerusalem to Europe and few countries in Asia. The big winner of this night is Israel for the second time after its first victory in 1978. The winning song is "Halelujah" sang by Gali Atari and the backing group Milk and Honey. A few months after winning the song had been translated into more than 82 languages, and broke a new record by entering the Guinness Book of Records as the most translated song in the world.
April 6 - Rod Stewart marries Alana Hamilton.
April 7 - 110,000 people attend the California Music Festival at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. Performers include Aerosmith, The Boomtown Rats, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent and Van Halen.
April 12 - Mickey Thomas replaces Marty Balin as the lead singer of Jefferson Starship
April 13 - During a concert by Van Halen in Spokane, Washington, David Lee Roth collapses from exhaustion.
May 1 - Elton John becomes the first pop music artist to perform in Israel.
May 2 - The Who perform their first concert following the death of drummer Keith Moon. The band performed with new drummer Kenny Jones.
May 5 - "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb hits #1 on the Billboard charts, and stays there for 4 weeks.
June 1 - Alternative Tentacles record label established by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra
June 28 - Bill Haley makes his final studio recordings at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. (He dies in 1981.)
July 7 - The Bee Gees play to a sold-out crowd at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium as part of their Spirits Having Flown tour.
July 12
- Minnie Riperton, singer/songwriter best known for her 1975 #1 hit single "Lovin' You" dies of breast cancer in Los Angeles, she was 31.
- "Disco Demolition Night", an anti-disco promotional event for a Chicago rock station involving exploding disco records with a bomb, causes a near-riot between games during a baseball major league doubleheader, forcing the cancellation of the second game.
July 14 - Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" hits #1 on the Billboard charts, and stays there for five weeks
August 4 - 11-British rock band Led Zeppelin played what were to be their last British concerts at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. Total attendance's for the two concerts approached 400,000^{[citation needed]}
August 25 - "My Sharona" by The Knack hits #1 on the Billboard charts. This is the first time in over a year that a song hits #1 that is not either a disco song or a ballad. It remains at #1 for six weeks.
September 2 - U2 enters the studio for the first time to record a locally released single.
October 10 - Joe Perry officially departs Aerosmith.
November 26 - Bill Haley & His Comets perform at the Royal Drury Lane Theatre in London in a command performance for Queen Elizabeth. This was Haley's final recorded performance of "Rock Around the Clock".
December 3 - In Cincinnati, Ohio, a stampede for seats at Riverfront Coliseum during a Who concert kills 11 fans (band members were not made aware of the deaths until after the show).
The Welsh Philharmonia becomes the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera.
Diamond Head's career begins
INXS career begins
Michael Schenker leaves U.F.O. after the Obsession tour and his solo career began
The Feelies' musical career begins
Marianne Faithfull returns to music after a hiatus
Solid Gold premieres on television.
Bad Brains forms
Fishbone forms
Was (Not Was) forms
Mr & Mrs No Smoking Sign forms in Sydney (later to become Severed Heads)
The Runaways disband
Return To Forever disband
Bachman-Turner Overdrive disbands

[edit] Albums released

5 - J.J. Cale
20 Hottest Hits - Hot Chocolate
154 - Wire
A Collection Of Their 20 Greatest Hits - The Three Degrees
A Curious Feeling - Tony Banks
A Different Kind of Tension - Buzzcocks
The Adventures of the Hersham Boys - Sham 69
Angel Station - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Another Kind of Blues - UK Subs
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Astaire - Peter Skellern
At Budokan - Cheap Trick (live)
The B-52s - The B-52s
Back to the Egg - Wings
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits Volume 2 - Barbra Streisand
Bee Gees Greatest - Bee Gees
The Best Days Of My Life - Johnny Mathis
The Best of Chic - CHIC
The Best of the Dooleys - The Dooleys
The Billie Jo Spears Singles Album - Billie Jo Spears
Black Rose: A Rock Legend - Thin Lizzy
Bob Dylan at Budokan - Bob Dylan (live)
Bomber - Motörhead
Bop Till You Drop - Ry Cooder
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Bridges - John Williams
Bursting Out - Jethro Tull (live)
Candy-O - The Cars
Classic Rock - The Second Movement - London Symphony Orchestra
Coming Up For Air - Penetration
Communiqué - Dire Straits
Cornerstone - Styx
The Crack - The Ruts
Crepes and Drapes - Showaddywaddy
Cut - The Slits
Dart Attack - Darts
David Essex Album - David Essex
Days in Europa - The Skids
Desolation Angels - Bad Company
Discovery - Electric Light Orchestra
Do It Yourself - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Down to Earth - Rainbow
Drums and Wires - XTC
Dynasty - KISS
Eat to the Beat - Blondie
Echoes of Gold - Adrian Brett
The Eddie Cochran Singles Album - Eddie Cochran
ELO's Greatest Hits - Electric Light Orchestra
Euroman Cometh - Jean-Jacques Burnel
Exposed - Mike Oldfield (live)
Facades - Sad Café
Fate for Breakfast - Art Garfunkel
Fear of Music - Talking Heads
Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Herbie Hancock
Feel No Fret - The Average White Band
The Fine Art of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats
Flex - Lene Lovich
Force Majeure - Tangerine Dream
George Harrison - George Harrison
Ghost Riders in the Sky - Slim Whitman
Go West - Village People
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle - Sex Pistols (OST)
Greatest Hits - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Greatest Hits 1972-1978 - 10cc
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 - Rod Stewart
Greatest Hits Volume 2 - ABBA
Heimweh nach Tahiti - Die Flippers
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Hydra - Toto
I'm the Man - Joe Jackson
I Am - Earth Wind & Fire
Imperial Wizard - David Essex
In the Skies - Peter Green
In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin
The Incredible Shrinking Dickies - The Dickies
Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Into the Music - Van Morrison
It's Alive - Ramones (live)
Join Hands - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Journey through the Secret Life of Plants - Stevie Wonder
The Kenny Rogers Singles Album - Kenny Rogers
The Kids Are Alright - The Who (OST)
L.A. (Light Album) - The Beach Boys
Last the Whole Night Long - James Last
Lena's Music Album - Lena Martell
Life in a Day - Simple Minds
Live and Learn - Elkie Brooks
Live Killers - Queen (live)
Live (X Cert) - The Stranglers (live)
Lodger - David Bowie
London Calling - The Clash
Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
The Long Run - The Eagles
Love Tracks - Gloria Gaynor
Lovedrive - Scorpions
Lovehunter - Whitesnake
Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned
Made It Through the Rain - Gerard Kenny
The Magic Is You - Shirley Bassey
Manifesto - Roxy Music
Marathon - Santana
The Mark II Purple Singles - Deep Purple
Marty Robbins Collection - Marty Robbins
Metal Box - Public Image Ltd.
Mick Taylor - Mick Taylor
Midnight Magic - Commodores
Mingus - Joni Mitchell
Mission Accomplished But the Beat Goes On - The Rezillos
Morning Dance - Spyro Gyra
Mr. Universe - Gillan
New Dimensions - The Three Degrees
New Horizons - Don Williams
Night in the Ruts - Aerosmith
Night Owl - Gerry Rafferty
No Mean City - Nazareth
Not That I'm Biased - Max Boyce
Oceans of Fantasy - Boney M
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
On the Radio - Greatest Hits Volume 1 & 2 - Donna Summer
One Step Beyond... - Madness
One Voice - Barry Manilow
Out of This World - The Moody Blues
Overkill - Motörhead
Platinum - Mike Oldfield
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan
Quadrophenia - The Who (OST)
The Raven - The Stranglers
Reality Effect - The Tourists
Reflections - George Hamilton IV
Reggatta de Blanc - The Police
Remote Control - The Tubes
Repeat When Necessary - Dave Edmunds
Replicas - Tubeway Army
Rhapsodies - Rick Wakeman
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Rise - Herb Alpert
Risqué - CHIC
Rock 'N' Roll Juvenile - Cliff Richard
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Scared to Dance - The Skids
Secondhand Daylight - Magazine
Semi-Detached Surburban - Manfred Mann
Setting Sons - The Jam
Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa
Shooting Stars - Dollar
Sid Sings - Sid Vicious
Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks
Sky - Sky
Slim Whitman's 20 Greatest Love Songs - Slim Whitman
Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan
Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
Sometimes You Win - Dr. Hook
Songbird - Ruby Winters
Songs of the Seashore - James Galway
Sound on Sound - Bill Nelson's Red Noise
The Specials - The Specials
Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett
Spirits Having Flown - Bee Gees
Street Machine - Sammy Hagar
Strangers in the Night - UFO (live)
Squeezing Out Sparks - Graham Parker & the Rumour
Street Life - The Crusaders
String of Hits - The Shadows
Survival" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts
Thank You Very Much - Reunion Concert At The London Palladium - Cliff Richard and The Shadows
That Summer - Original Soundtrack
Three on the Trail - Riders in the Sky
Tranquility - Mary O'Hara
TRB TWO - Tom Robinson Band
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
The Undertones - The Undertones
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
The Unrecorded Jasper Carrott - Jasper Carrott
Van Halen II - Van Halen
The Very Best Of Leo Sayer - Leo Sayer
Volcano - Jimmy Buffett
Voulez-Vous - ABBA
Walking On Sunshine - Eddy Grant
The Wall - Pink Floyd
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Wet - Barbra Streisand
Whatever You Want - Status Quo
The World Is Full of Married Men - Original Soundtrack
You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Neil Diamond

[edit] Chronological Table of US and UK Number One Hit Singles

US Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)	UK Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)
"Le Freak" - CHIC (2 weeks in 1978 + 4 weeks in 1979) "Too Much Heaven" - Bee Gees (2) "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - Rod Stewart (4) "I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor (3) "Tragedy" - Bee Gees (2) "What a Fool Believes" - Doobie Brothers (1) "Knock on Wood" - Amii Stewart (1) "Heart of Glass" - Blondie (1) "Reunited" - Peaches & Herb (4) "Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer (3) "Love You Inside Out" - Bee Gees (1) "Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward (2) "Bad Girls" - Donna Summer (5) "Good Times" - CHIC (1) "My Sharona" - The Knack (6) best selling 7" single of the year "Sad Eyes" - Robert John (1) "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson (1) "Rise" - Herb Alpert (2) "Pop Muzik" - M (1) "Heartache Tonight" - The Eagles (1) "Still" - Commodores (1) "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (2) "Babe" - Styx (2) "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes (2 weeks in 1979 + 1 week in 1980) Also see: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1979	"Y.M.C.A." - Village People (3) best selling single of the year "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (1) "Heart of Glass" - Blondie (4) "Tragedy" - Bee Gees (2) "I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor (4) "Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel (6) "Sunday Girl" - Blondie (3) "Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward (2) Are 'Friends' Electric?- Tubeway Army (4) "I Don't Like Mondays" - Boomtown Rats (4) "We Don't Talk Anymore" - Cliff Richard (4) Cars - Gary Numan (1) "Message in a Bottle" - The Police (3) "Video Killed the Radio Star" - The Buggles (1) "One Day At A Time" - Lena Martell (3) "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" - Dr. Hook (3) "Walking on the Moon" - The Police (1) "Another Brick In The Wall, Part II" - Pink Floyd (3 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1980)

US Number One Singles and Artist
(Weeks at Number One)

UK Number One Singles and Artist
(Weeks at Number One)

"Le Freak" - CHIC (2 weeks in 1978 + 4 weeks in 1979)
"Too Much Heaven" - Bee Gees (2)
"Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" - Rod Stewart (4)
"I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor (3)
"Tragedy" - Bee Gees (2)
"What a Fool Believes" - Doobie Brothers (1)
"Knock on Wood" - Amii Stewart (1)
"Heart of Glass" - Blondie (1)
"Reunited" - Peaches & Herb (4)
"Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer (3)
"Love You Inside Out" - Bee Gees (1)
"Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward (2)
"Bad Girls" - Donna Summer (5)
"Good Times" - CHIC (1)
"My Sharona" - The Knack (6) best selling 7" single of the year
"Sad Eyes" - Robert John (1)
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson (1)
"Rise" - Herb Alpert (2)
"Pop Muzik" - M (1)
"Heartache Tonight" - The Eagles (1)
"Still" - Commodores (1)
"No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (2)
"Babe" - Styx (2)
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes (2 weeks in 1979 + 1 week in 1980)
Also see: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1979

"Y.M.C.A." - Village People (3) best selling single of the year
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (1)
"Heart of Glass" - Blondie (4)
"Tragedy" - Bee Gees (2)
"I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor (4)
"Bright Eyes" - Art Garfunkel (6)
"Sunday Girl" - Blondie (3)
"Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward (2)
Are 'Friends' Electric?- Tubeway Army (4)
"I Don't Like Mondays" - Boomtown Rats (4)
"We Don't Talk Anymore" - Cliff Richard (4)
Cars - Gary Numan (1)
"Message in a Bottle" - The Police (3)
"Video Killed the Radio Star" - The Buggles (1)
"One Day At A Time" - Lena Martell (3)
"When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" - Dr. Hook (3)
"Walking on the Moon" - The Police (1)
"Another Brick In The Wall, Part II" - Pink Floyd (3 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1980)

[edit] Other significant singles

"A Message to You Rudy/Nite Klub" - The Specials
"Accidents Will Happen" - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"After the Love Has Gone" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" - McFadden & Whitehead
"Ambition" - Vic Godard and Subway Sect
"Angel Eyes" - Roxy Music
"Angeleyes" - ABBA
"Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)" - Robert Palmer
"Bang Bang" - B.A. Robertson
"Bat Out of Hell" - Meat Loaf
"Big Shot" - Billy Joel
"Boogie Wonderland" - Earth Wind and Fire with the Emotions
"(Boogie Woogie) Dancin' Shoes" - Claudja Barry
"Born to Be Alive" - Patrick Hernandez
"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure
"Boys Keep Swinging" - David Bowie
"Breakfast at Sweethearts" - Cold Chisel
"Breakfast in America" - Supertramp
"Bright Side of the Road" - Van Morrison
"Broken Hearted Me" - Anne Murray
"California Über Alles" - The Dead Kennedys
"Can You Feel The Force" - The Real Thing
"Can't Stand Losing You" - The Police
"Chiquitita" - ABBA
"Come to Me" - France Joli
"Comme disait Mistinguett" - Dalida
"Computer Games" - Mi-Sex
"Contact" - Edwin Starr
"Cool for Cats" - Squeeze
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen
"Cruel To Be Kind" - Nick Lowe
"Dance Away" - Roxy Music
"Death Disco" - Public Image Ltd.
"Deeper Than the Night" - Olivia Newton-John
"Dim All the Lights" - Donna Summer
"Disco Nights" - GQ
"Do Anything You Wanna Do" - Thin Lizzy
"Do You Think I'm Disco?" - Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation
"Does Your Mother Know" - ABBA
"Don't Bring Me Down" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Don't Do Me Like That" - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
"Don't Throw Stones" - The Sports
"Dreaming" - Blondie
"Driver's Seat" - Sniff 'n' the Tears
"Duchess" - The Stranglers
"Electricity" - OMD
"Even the Losers" - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
"Every Day Hurts" - Sad Café
"Everybody's Happy Nowadays" - Buzzcocks
"Freedom's Prisoner" - Steve Harley
"Gangsters" - The Specials AKA
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - ABBA
"Girls Talk" - Dave Edmunds
"Go West" - Village People
"Good Times Roll" - The Cars
"Gonna Get Along Without You Now" - Viola Wills
"Goodbye Girl" - Squeeze
"Goodbye Stranger" - Supertramp
"Half the Way" - Crystal Gayle
"H.A.P.P.Y. Radio" - Edwin Starr
"He Must Have Been Eighteen" - Dalida
"He's the Greatest Dancer" - Sister Sledge
"Heaven Knows" - Donna Summer w/Brooklyn Dreams
"Helwa Ya Baladi" - Dalida
"Here Comes the Summer" - The Undertones
"Highway to Hell" - AC/DC
"Hold the Line" - Toto
"Honesty" - Billy Joel
"I Just Fall In Love Again" - Anne Murray (the #1 US Country hit of the year)
"I Want You To Want Me (live)" - Cheap Trick
"I Want Your Love" - Chic
"I Was Made For Lovin' You" - KISS
"(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" - Barbara Mandrell
"Il faut danser reggae" - Dalida
"I'll Never Love This Way Again" - Dionne Warwick
"In the Navy" - Village People
"Into the Valley" - The Skids
"Is It Love You're After?" - Rose Royce
"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" - Joe Jackson
"Japanese Girls" - Riff Regan
"Jimmy Jimmy" - The Undertones
"Just the Way You Are" - Barry White
"Just What I Needed" - The Cars
"Kid" - The Pretenders
"Lady Writer" - Dire Straits
"Lady" - Little River Band
"Lay Your Love On Me" - Racey
"Lead Me On" - Maxine Nightingale
"Let Me Dance Tonight" - Dalida
"Let's Go" - The Cars
"A Little Lovin' (Keeps the Doctor Away)" - The Raes
"Living On The Front Line" - Eddy Grant
"London Calling" - The Clash
"Lonesome Loser" - Little River Band
"Love don't live here anymore" - Morrissey-Mullen
"Love Drive" - The Scorpions
"Lucky Number" - Lene Lovich
"The Main Event/Fight" - Barbra Streisand
"Making Plans for Nigel" - XTC
"Memory Lane" - Minnie Riperton w. Riperton Rudolph St. Lewis Dozier
"Milk And Alcohol" - Dr. Feelgood
"Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser" - Dalida
"Morning Dance" - Spyro Gyra
"My Forbidden Lover" - Chic
"My Girl" - Madness
"Oliver's Army" - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"On My Radio" - The Selecter
"One Step Beyond" - Madness
"One Way Or Another" - Blondie
"One Way Ticket" - Eruption
"On the Inside" - Lynn Hamilton
"Parisenne Walkways" - Gary Moore
"Queen of Hearts" - Dave Edmunds
"Rapper's Delight" - The Sugarhill Gang
"Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)" - Ian Dury & the Blockheads
"Roll Over Beethoven (EP)" - Chuck Berry
"Roxanne" - The Police
"Sarah" - Thin Lizzy
"Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" - The Jacksons
"Shake Your Groove Thing" - Peaches & Herb
"Shape I'm In" - Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons
"She Believes In Me" - Kenny Rogers
"Shine a Little Love - Electric Light Orchestra
"Ships" - Barry Manilow
"Shooting Star" - Dollar
"Slap and Tickle" - Squeeze
"Smash It Up" - The Damned
"Some Girls" - Racey
"Something Else"/"Friggin' in the Riggin'" - Sex Pistols
"Somewhere In the Night" - Barry Manilow
"Song on the Radio" - Al Stewart
"Spiral Scratch(EP)" - Buzzcocks
"Stop Your Sobbing" - Pretenders
"Strange Town" - The Jam
"Sultans of Swing" - Dire Straits
"Take Me to the River" - Talking Heads
"Take On the World" - Judas Priest
"Talking In Your Sleep" - Crystal Gayle
"Tears of a Clown"/"Ranking Full Stop" - The Beat
"The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" - Marianne Faithfull
"The Cost of Living (EP)" - The Clash
"The Diary of Horace Wimp" - Electric Light Orchestra
"The Eton Rifles" - The Jam
"The Gambler" - Kenny Rogers
"The Logical Song" - Supertramp
"The Long Run" - The Eagles
"The Prince" - Madness
"The Sound Of The Suburbs" - The Members
"The Worker" - Fischer Z
"Time for Action" - Secret Affair
"Time Passages" - Al Stewart
"Transmission" - Joy Division
"Union City Blue" - Blondie
"Up There Cazaly" - Two Man Band
"Up The Junction" - Squeeze
"Vedrai Vedrai" - Dalida
"Voulez-Vous" - ABBA
"Waiting for an Alibi" - Thin Lizzy
"We Are Family" - Sister Sledge
"We Don't Talk Anymore" - Cliff Richard
"Whatever You Want" - Status Quo
"Who Where You With in the Moonlight" - Dollar
"Wonderful Christmastime" - Paul McCartney
"You Decorated My Life" - Kenny Rogers
"You Needed Me" - Anne Murray (in the UK; hit #1 in the US in 1978)

[edit] Published popular music

"Don't Cry Out Loud" w. Carole Bayer Sager m. Peter Allen
"The Facts of Life" w.m. Alan Thicke, Gloria Loring, and Al Burton, from the TV series of the same name
"I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love" w.m. Carole Bayer Sager & Peter Allen
"Knots Landing theme" m. Jerrold Immel
"New York State Of Mind" w.m. Billy Joel
"The Rainbow Connection" w.m. Kenny Ascher & Paul Williams, from the film The Muppet Movie
Sultans of Swing w.m. Mark Knopfler

[edit] Classical music

Arno Babadjanian - Third String Quartet
Osvaldas Balakauskas - Symphony no 2
George Crumb - Apparition for soprano and amplified piano
George Crumb - Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano (four hands)
George Crumb - Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
Mario Davidovsky - Pennplay for sixteen players
Hugh Flynn - Birds
Jacques Hétu - Bassoon Concerto
Miloslav Kabelac - Metamorphoses II, for piano and orchestra, op. 58
Allan Pettersson - Viola Concerto

[edit] Opera

Dominick Argento - Miss Havisham's Wedding Night
Libby Larsen - The Silver Fox

[edit] Musical theater

Ain't Misbehavin' (Music: Fats Waller, Lyrics: Various Book: Murray Horwitz & Richard Maltby Jr.). London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on March 22.
Evita (Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics and Book: Tim Rice). Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on September 25 and ran for 1567 performances
The King and I London revival opened at the Palladium on June 12 and ran for 538 performances
My Old Friends (Music, Lyrics and Book: Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs). Off-Broadway production opened at the Orpheum Theatre on January 12 and transferred to the 22 Steps Theatre on Broadway on April 12 for a total run of 154 performances.
Oklahoma! (Music: Richard Rodgers, Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II) - Broadway revival opened at the Palace Theatre on December 13 and ran for 310 performances
Peter Pan (Music: Mark Charlap, Lyrics and Book: Carolyn Leigh with additional songs, Music: Jule Styne and Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green)). Broadway revival opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on September 6 and ran for 551 performances.
Saravà (Music: Mitch Leigh, Lyrics and Book: N. Richard Nash). Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on February 23 and ran for 140 performances
Sugar Babies Broadway revue opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 8 and ran for 1208 performances.
Sweeney Todd (Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim, Book: Hugh Wheeler) - Broadway production opened at the Uris Theatre on March 1 and ran for 557 performances
They're Playing Our Song (Music: Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics: Carole Bayer Sager, Book: Neil Simon). Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on February 11 and ran for 1082 performances
Tommy London production opened at Queen's Theatre on February 6 and ran for 118 performances
The Venetian Twins (Music: Terence Clarke, Lyrics and Book: Nick Enright). Opened at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre on October 26.
Whoopee (Music: Walter Donaldson, Lyrics: Gus Kahn, Book: William Anthony McGuire). Broadway revival opened at the ANTA Theatre on February 14 and ran for 212 performances.