1978 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Miss You,” …
1978 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Miss You,” The Rolling Stones. The song is the band’s eighth No. 1 single.
Month: July 1978
1978 – Fans of the urban sitcom What’s Happening! yell at Rerun
1978 – Fans of the urban sitcom What’s Happening! yell at Rerun to get out the way so they can get a better look at guest stars the Doobie Brothers. Kick Ass!
1978 – Ted Nugent: In response to a fan’s request
1978 – In response to a fan’s request, Ted Nugent autographs his arm. With a Bowie knife.
1978 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring
1978 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring Peter Frampton, George Burns, and the Bee Gees, opens in New York. As I recall, the general consensus of the times… everyone thought it was the end of Peter’s career as it had been… doing a commercial sellout like this. Maybe he thought it would be […]
1978 – Bob Dylan plays to a 200,000…
1978 – Bob Dylan plays to a 200,000-strong audience at his open-air concert at England’s Blackbushe Airport in the final date of his current European tour. And he had just released Street Legal.
1978 – The BBC bans the Sex Pistols song “No…
1978 – The BBC bans the Sex Pistols song “No One Is Innocent.” I guess the SP were pissed off!
1978 – The O’Jays celebrate their 20th anniversary…
1978 – The O’Jays celebrate their 20th anniversary.
1978 – The Rolling Stones drop in on Chicago’s Quiet Knight
1978 – The Rolling Stones drop in on Chicago’s Quiet Knight club to jam with hero Muddy Waters.
1978 – The Grateful Dead played the first of four nights at the Red Rocks
1978 – The Grateful Dead played the first of four nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado.
1978 – EMI halts production of the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls…
1978 – EMI halts production of the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls album after some of the celebrities featured complain about the use of their images in the cover art.