Welcome to Throwback Tuesday!
We’re talking 1978 today.
January 14th – The Sex Pistols play their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom
February 4th – Elton John appears as the guest star on The Muppet Show.
http://youtu.be/lilZb_9MMHQ
February 10th – Van Halen debuts with self-titled album; Eddie Van Halen introduces a powerful new sound and technique to world, while David lee Roth is ushered in as the front man.
http://youtu.be/wJrrrPhvL-4
May 6th – The Knack is formed (first album released in 1979.)
May 13th – Barry Gibb becomes the only songwriter in history to have written 4 consecutive #1 singles on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart.
May 25th – In a performance used for The Kids Are Alright, The Who play their last show with Keith Moon.
June 20th – Grace Slick splits with Jefferson Starship the day after a disastrous concert in Hamburg, Germany, in which a heavily intoxicated Slick verbally abused the crowd and groped various fans and band mates.
July 19th – Dead Kennedys play their first concert, at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, California.
http://youtu.be/0MalfRkIQDY
September 7th – The Who drummer Keith Moon dies in a central London flat after a prescription drug overdose at the age of 32.
October 12th – Nancy Spungen, the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is found dead in a hotel room of a stab wound. Sid is arrested and charged with her murder,
November 27th – Def Leppard’s permanent drummer Rick Allen joins the band at the age of 15.