1979 in music

none February 2016 August 2011 1979 1979 music radio television film This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1979. Specific locations 1979 in British music 1979 in Japanese music 1979 in Norwegian music 1979 in Scandinavian music Specific genres 1979 in country music 1979 in heavy metal music 1979 in hip-hop music 1979 in jazz 1979 in progressive rock Events January–February 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 firecracker is thrown onstage from the audience. January 4 – The Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany, known for its connections to the early days of the Beatles, reopened. January 6 – ABC's American Bandstand featured the debut of the "Y.M.C.A. dance" using the hand gestures forming the letters YMCA during a broadcast with the Village People. January 9 – The Music for UNICEF Concert in held in New York City at the United Nations, starring the Bee Gees. Highlights are aired the following evening on NBC. January 13 – Singer Donny Hathaway dies after falling 15 stories 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 2 – Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious is found dead from an overdose, a day after being released on bail from Rikers Island prison. February 7 The Clash kicked off their first concert of their first American tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre outside San Francisco. Bo Diddley opened the show. Stephen Stills becomes the first major rock artist to record digitally, laying down four songs at The Record Plant in Los Angeles. None of the songs are released, and Ry Cooder becomes the first major rock artist to release a digitally recorded record. February 10 – Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" hit No. 1 on the Billboard magazine charts, and stayed there for 4 weeks. February 11 – 43 million viewers watch "Elvis!" on ABC, a made-for-TV movie starring Kurt Russell as Elvis. February 14 – Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy magazine. February 15 Minnie Riperton appears on the Grammys as a presenter with Stephen Bishop. The 21st Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Los Angeles, hosted by John Denver. The Bee Gees collect 4 Grammys for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, including Album of the Year, while Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" wins both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. A Taste of Honey win Best New Artist. 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. Singer Johnnie Wilder, Jr. of Heatwave is paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. February 26 – B.B. King becomes the first blues artist to tour the Soviet Union, kicking off a one-month tour there. March–April March 2–4 – Weather Report, The CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Stephen Stills, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel, plus Cuban acts Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Elena Burke, Los Papines, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón play at the historic three-day Havana Jam festival at the Karl Marx Theater, in Havana, Cuba. March 5 – MCA Records dissolves ABC Records. March 10 – James Brown performs at the Grand Ole Opry. March 15 – Elvis Costello gets into a heated argument with members of Stephen Stills' touring entourage at a Holiday Inn in Columbus, Ohio, United States. After Costello makes disparaging and racist remarks, he is punched by Bonnie Bramlett. Costello suffers a wave of negative press coverage after the incident is made public.Wawzenek Bryan That Time Elvis Costello Incited a Brawl With Racist Remarks https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elvis-costello-racist-remarks/ January 24, 2022 Ultimate Classic Rock March 15, 2015 en March 27 – Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd, ex-wife of Clapton's friend George Harrison.Doggett Peter Peter Doggett You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup HarperCollins 2009 978-0-06-177418-8 261 Simple Minds make their first television appearance, performing the songs "Chelsea Girl" and "Life in a Day" on BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test.https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/simple-minds/1979/the-old-grey-whistle-test-bbc-television-theatre-london-england-63c4beef.html Simple Minds setlist at The Old Grey Whistle Test setlist.fm 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 show is broadcast live from Jerusalem to Europe and a few countries in Asia. The big winner of this night is Israel for the second time in a row. The winning song is "Hallelujah" sung by the group Milk and Honey, including Gali Atari. 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 2 – Kate Bush begins her first, and for 35 years, only tour. She becomes the first artist to use a wireless microphone, enabling her to sing and dance at the same time. 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. A local doctor treats him for a stomach virus and advises him to "calm down". April 22 – The New Barbarians and The Rolling Stones perform two concerts in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, to benefit the CNIB, as part of Keith Richards' 1978 sentence for heroin possession. April 27 – Ozzy Osbourne is fired as lead singer of Black Sabbath. He is replaced in May by Ronnie James Dio. May–August May 1 – Elton John becomes one of the first Western pop musicians to perform in Israel. May 2 – The Who play their first concert following the death of drummer Keith Moon. The band performs with new drummer Kenney Jones at London's Rainbow Theatre. May 4 – Release as a single of Gary Numan's "Are "Friends" Electric?" with Tubeway Army; it becomes the first synth-pop single to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart. May 8 – Iron Maiden, Samson, and Angel Witch share a bill at the Music Machine in Camden, London. Critic Geoff Barton coins the term "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" in a review of the show for Sounds magazine.If You Want Blood (and Flashbombs and Dry Ice and Confetti) You Got It Sounds 19 May 1979 Barton Geoff Geoff Barton 28–29 May 12 – Disco music occupies eight of the top ten spots of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, for two weeks. The charts are led by Peaches and Herb's R&B ballad single "Reunited". May 14 – Kate Bush plays the final date at the Hammersmith Odeon on her first-ever tour, which also turned out to be her last tour.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/13/kate-bush-only-tour-live Kate Bush's only tour: pop concert or disappearing act? The Guardian 13 May 2010 May 19 – Three of the four ex-Beatles perform on the same stage, as Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr jam with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Mick Jagger and others at a wedding reception for Clapton at his Surrey home. May 21 – Elton John plays the first of eight concerts in the Soviet Union, making him the first western solo pop artist to tour there. June 1 – The Alternative Tentacles record label is established by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. June 8 – Marianne Faithfull marries Ben Brierly of The Vibrators. June 9 – The Bee Gees equal Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles, with a record six consecutive number-one singles in the U.S. in less than a single calendar year with "Love You Inside Out". June 16 – Donna Summer becomes the first female to have the #1 single "Hot Stuff" and album Bad Girls for a second time. June 28 – Bill Haley makes his final studio recordings at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. June 30 Donna Summer becomes the first female artist to have 2 of the top 3 songs, Hot Stuff at #1 & Bad Girls at #3, on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They will stay in the top 3 together for 4 weeks. In fact, all of the top 5 songs that week are entirely by women, both in Billboard and in Cashbox. Tubeway Army reach number 1 on the UK Singles Chart with "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and become the first British act to have a synth pop hit single. The song will remain at number 1 for four consecutive weeks.https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17680/tubeway-army/ Tubeway Army Official Charts July EMI's first non-classical digital recording, of UK jazz-funk duo Morrissey–Mullen covering the Rose Royce hit "Love Don't Live Here Anymore", is recorded at Abbey Road Studios and later released as a limited edition vinyl EP. George Martin's Associated Independent Recording opens its AIR Montserrat recording studio on the Caribbean island of Montserrat; the first album recorded here is Climax Blues Band's Real to Reel.AIR Studio Ruins Atlas Obscura 2018-06-06 http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/air-studio-ruins 2023-10-13 July 1 – The Sony Walkman goes on sale in Japan. 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 10 – Chuck Berry is sentenced to four months in prison for tax evasion by a Los Angeles judge. July 12 – "Disco Demolition Night", an anti-disco promotional event held by a Chicago rock station at Comiskey Park 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, for a third time in an eight-month period, scores a #1 single with "Bad Girls", (staying atop the charts for five weeks); and #1 album of the same name, which also tops the Billboard 200 for six weeks. July 21 With Bad Girls (both single and album), Donna Summer's success continues as she becomes the first female artist to sit on top of 3 major Billboard charts: the Billboard Hot 100, the Hot Soul Singles chart, and the Billboard 200. Disco dominates the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the first six spots (beginning with Donna Summer's "Bad Girls"), and seven of the chart's top ten songs ending that week. Tubeway Army reach number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with "Replicas". July 28 – Aerosmith and Ted Nugent headline the World Series of Rock at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. Also on the bill are Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC and the Scorpions. Following the concert, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry quits the group after an argument with bandmates. July 31 – 250,000 turn out in Central Park for a free concert by James Taylor in a campaign to restore Sheep Meadow. August – Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, having reunited after a three-year break, eventually record their first compositions since then, to be released a year later as 21 at 33. August 6 – Bauhaus releases debut single "Bela Lugosi's Dead", considered to be the first Gothic Rock release. August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his fifth studio album, Off the Wall, which would eventually become his first breakthrough album. August 18 – Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter are married at Carter's Los Angeles home. August 24 – Prince's first hit single "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is released in the US, reaching number one on the RnB and number 11 on the Hot 100, selling more than one million copies in the US. 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, signalling the potential resurgence of rock. September–December September 1 – INXS perform in public for the first time, at the Oceanview Hotel in Umina, New South Wales. September 2 – U2 enters the studio for the first time to record a locally released single. September 13 – ABBA begins ABBA: The Tour in Edmonton, Alberta, leading off a month of dates in North America. September 16 – The Sugarhill Gang release Rapper's Delight in the United States, the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. September 17 – Ontario Court of Appeals rejects a government appeal against the previous year's sentencing of Keith Richards, which allowed him to avoid jail time for his 1977 arrest in Toronto for heroin possession. September 19–23 – Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) stages a series of five No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, James Taylor and Carly Simon are among the participants. September 22 Gary Numan hits number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with The Pleasure Principle, only two months after his Tubeway Army album Replicas had topped the chart.https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/17942/gary-numan/ Gary Numan Official Charts The NewMusic, a Canadian weekly music and culture program, makes its début on Citytv. September 27 – Elton John collapses on stage at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles County, California while performing "Better Off Dead". He refuses to stop the show and resumes playing fifteen minutes later. October 10 – Joe Perry officially leaves Aerosmith. November 3 – Donna Summer becomes the first female artist to have 5 top 10 hits in the same year. November 16 – Infinity Records is shut down and absorbed into parent company MCA. November 17 – Donna Summer, for a second time, has two songs ("Dim All the Lights", #2, & "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" with Barbra Streisand, #3) in the Top 3 of the Billboard Hot 100, and the first female to have 5 top 5 hits in the same year. November 24 – With "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" hitting the top spot, Donna Summer becomes the first female artist to score 3 #1 singles in a calendar year on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. November 26 – Bill Haley & His Comets perform at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II. This was Haley's final recorded performance of "Rock Around the Clock". November 30 – Pink Floyd releases The Wall. It is one of rock's most well-known concept albums and one of the best-selling albums of all time. It is also the last album recorded with the line up of David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. December – Iron Maiden is signed by EMI. They hire Dennis Stratton as a second guitarist. December 3 – In Cincinnati, a stampede for seats at Riverfront Coliseum during a Who concert kills 11 fans and injures 26 others. Band members were not informed of the deaths until after the show. December 8 – The 8th OTI Festival, held at the Teatro del Círculo Militar de Caracas es Theatre of the Military Academy in Caracas, Venezuela, is won by the song "es Cuenta conmigo no", written by Chico Novarro and Raúl Parentella es, and performed by Daniel Riolobos es representing Argentina. December 26 – Iron Maiden drummer Doug Sampson is replaced by ex-Samson drummer Clive Burr. December 26-29 – The Concerts for the People of Kampuchea are held over four nights at the Hammersmith Odeon in London to raise funds for victims of war in Cambodia. Queen, The Who, The Clash, Wings, Elvis Costello and members of Led Zeppelin all take part. December 31 – The eighth annual New Year's Rockin' Eve special airs on ABC, with appearances by The Oak Ridge Boys, Village People, Chic, Blondie and Barry Manilow. Also in 1979 The Welsh Philharmonia becomes the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Michael Schenker leaves Scorpions during their tour in France and is replaced by Matthias Jabs. Stevie Wonder uses digital audio recording technology in recording his album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants. Disco reigns supreme this year, with several number-one hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer. Several artists who were not regarded as disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco-oriented singles or albums, 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 symphonic rock band Electric Light Orchestra with their UK No. 1 LP Discovery. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1979 Bands disbanded See Musical groups disestablished in 1979 Bands reformed The Chipmunks Albums released January DayAlbumArtistNotes5 Armed Forces Elvis Costello & The Attractions 15 Lovedrive Scorpions 16 Accept Accept 19 Sleep Dirt Frank Zappa 22 We Are Family Sister Sledge 25 Take Me Home Cher 26 Bustin' Out of L Seven Rick James Valley of the Dolls Generation X - Strangers in the Night UFO Live The Def Leppard E.P. Def Leppard Debut EP Nervous Breakdown Black Flag Debut EP Sinful Angel Head First The Babys Look Sharp! Joe Jackson Martin C. Strong 2000 The Great Rock Discography 5th Mojo Books Edinburgh 485–486 1-84195-017-3 John Denver John Denver Life for the Taking Eddie Money Living Without Your Love Dusty Springfield Madam Butterfly Tavares Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live Muddy Waters Live New Kind of Feeling Anne Murray No Mean City Nazareth February DayAlbumArtistNotes2 Inflammable Material Stiff Little Fingers 5 Spirits Having Flown Bee Gees 19 Frenzy Split Enz 20 George Harrison George Harrison 23 Live (X Cert) The Stranglers LiveTwomey Chris The Stranglers - The Men They Love To Hate 1992 EMI Records Ltd 76 Scared to Dance Skids The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle Sex Pistols Soundtrack28 Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones N/A Ambient 1: Music for Airports Brian Eno Feets, Don't Fail Me Now Herbie Hancock Breakfast at Sweethearts Cold Chisel Don't Throw Stones The Sports Enlightened Rogues The Allman Brothers Band The Feeding of the 5000 Crass Force Majeure Tangerine Dream Hard Times for Lovers Judy Collins Under Heaven Over Hell Streetheart March DayAlbumArtistNotes1 No. 1 in Heaven Sparks 2 It's Alright with Me Patti LaBelle 5 A Million Vacations Max Webster 7Strikes Blackfoot Feel No Fret Average White Band 9 Angel Station Manfred Mann's Earth Band Even Serpents Shine The Only Ones Thriller Eddie and the Hot Rods 12 'Bout Love Bill Withers 13 Aux armes et cætera Serge Gainsbourg 15 Fate for Breakfast Art Garfunkel Half Machine Lip Moves Chrome 16 Breakfast in America Supertramp https://www.bpi.co.uk/page/certified-awards BRIT Certified Awards Bpi.co.uk April 7, 2026 Danger Money U.K. News Record Mirror 3 March 1979 5 Overkill Motörhead https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/567/mode/1up?q=Lemmy+Kilmister&view=theater The Great Rock Discography 1995 567 9780862415419 Strong Martin Charles Canongate Press Manifesto Roxy Music Bitanga i princeza Bijelo dugme Live at the Witch Trials The Fall Debut19 L.A. The Beach Boys 20 Evolution Journey https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Journey&ti=Evolution&lab=&genre=&format=Album&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section RIAA certifications Recording Industry Association of America 23 Van Halen II Van Halen 26 Go West Village People 27 You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic Ian Hunter 29 Teenage Head Teenage Head 30 Just a Game Triumph Secondhand Daylight Magazine N/A Desolation Angels Bad Company Sheik Yerbouti Frank Zappa Airwaves Badfinger I Love You So Natalie Cole Remote Control The Tubes Rock n' Roll Nights Bachman–Turner Overdrive Squeezing Out Sparks Graham Parker and The Rumour April DayAlbumArtistNotes6 Replicas Tubeway Army Cool for Cats Squeeze Euroman Cometh Jean-Jacques Burnel 10 I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing Barry White 13 Black Rose: A Rock Legend Thin Lizzy Blue Kentucky Girl Emmylou Harris 20 Life in a Day Simple Minds 14 April 1979 News / Singles https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-04-14.pdf Music Week 4, 48 19 June 2022 Gimme Some Neck Ron Wood Million Mile Reflections The Charlie Daniels Band My Father's Eyes Amy Grant Y The Pop Group 23 Bob Dylan at Budokan Bob Dylan Live Voulez-Vous ABBA 25 Bad Girls Donna Summer 27 New Values Iggy Pop UKN/A Exposure Robert Fripp Solo Debut It's Alive Ramones Live Mission Accomplished But the Beat Goes On The Rezillos Live New Chautauqua Pat Metheny New England New England May DayAlbumArtistNotes4 Orchestral Favorites Frank Zappa 11 Three Imaginary Boys The Cure Debut17 Wave Patti Smith Group 18 Night Owl Gerry Rafferty Do It Yourself Ian Dury & The Blockheads Shades in Bed The Records Debut22 Where There's Smoke... Smokey Robinson 23 The Boss Diana Ross Dynasty Kiss 24 Great Balls of Fire Dolly Parton 25 Lodger David Bowie 30 Where I Should Be Peter Frampton N/A Saxon Saxon Debut The Bells Lou Reed Monolith Kansas Rhapsodies Rick Wakeman Spectral Mornings Steve Hackett State of Shock Ted Nugent Narita Riot Japan Rock 'n' Roll High School Various Artists Soundtrack Images at Twilight Saga Flag James Taylor In the Skies Peter Green The Undertones The Undertones Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma Michael Nesmith Let Me Be Good to You Lou Rawls Shot Through the Heart Jennifer Warnes June DayAlbumArtistNotes1 Discovery Electric Light Orchestra https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ BPI certifications for ELO BPI August 10, 2023 February 5, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210205223425/https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ dead This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N Bootsy's Rubber Band 5 Communiqué Dire Straits Timeline DireStraits.com https://www.direstraits.com/about/ 2022-01-29 www.direstraits.com 28 January 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230128095618/https://www.direstraits.com/about/ dead I Am Earth, Wind & Fire Best of The J. Geils Band The J. Geils Band 8 Back to the Egg Wings The Kids Are Alright The Who Soundtrack Labour of Lust Nick Lowe Repeat When Necessary Dave Edmunds 11 Get the Knack The Knack 13 Candy-O The Cars Mingus Joni Mitchell 15 Unknown Pleasures Joy Division Debut Secrets Robert Palmer PXR5 Hawkwind Silent Letter America 19 Mirrors Blue Öyster Cult 22 Live Killers Queen Live Mick Taylor Mick Taylor 25 Secret Omen Cameo N/A Survivors SamsonDebut Spy Carly Simon Another Taste A Taste of Honey Armageddon Prism Door, Door The Boys Next Door Life and Love Leon Russell One for the Road Willie Nelson and Leon Russell No Exit The Angels Si todo hiciera Crack Crack Touch the Sky Carole King Underdog Atlanta Rhythm Section July DayAlbumArtistNotes2 Rust Never Sleeps Neil Young and Crazy Horse 6 The B-52's The B-52's 10 Low Budget The Kinks US16 Oh What a Feeling Mavis Staples Screaming Targets Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons 19 The Records The Records US Version of Shades in Bed20 Nine Lives REO Speedwagon 27 Highway to Hell AC/DC Exposed Mike Oldfield LiveBritish album certifications - Mike Oldfield - Exposed https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/2170-2671-2 British Phonographic Industry 8 July 2022 John Cougar John Cougar 30 Risqué Chic N/A Bop till You Drop Ry Cooder Can Can Circles & Seasons Pete Seeger First Under the Wire Little River Band Fool Around Rachel Sweet US version Gamma 1 Gamma Honest Lullaby Joan Baez Midnight Magic Commodores No Promises...No Debts Golden Earring The Original Disco Man James Brown Shake Hands with the Devil Kris Kristofferson August DayAlbumArtistNotes1 String of Hits The Shadows Volcano Jimmy Buffett 3 Down to Earth Rainbow Popoff Martin Martin Popoff The Deep Purple Family 2nd Wymer Publishing 2016 259 978-1-908724-42-7 Fear of Music Talking Heads Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols Sex Pistols Interview collage10 Ghostown The Radiators Off the Wall Michael Jackson 13 Chicago 13 Chicago 17 Drums and Wires XTC Rose Royce IV: Rainbow Connection Rose Royce Slow Train Coming Bob Dylan 22 In Through the Out Door Led Zeppelin https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Led+Zeppelin&ti=In+Through+the+Out+Door&format=Album&type=#search_section RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Rose Bette Midler Soundtrack to 1979 film27 In the Heat of the Night Pat Benatar30 Big Fun Shalamar N/A 5 J.J. Cale Born Again Randy Newman Children of the Sun Billy Thorpe Into the Music Van Morrison September DayAlbumArtistNotes4 Flying Colors Trooper 6 La Diva Aretha Franklin Ladies' Night Kool & the Gang 7 The Pleasure Principle Gary Numan Solo Debut Night After Night U.K. Live Join Hands Siouxsie and the Banshees Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile Cliff Richard Cut The Slits 11 Head Games Foreigner Kost u grlu Riblja Čorba 14 Stormwatch Jethro Tull 17 Joe's Garage Act I Frank Zappa 19 New Picnic Time Pere Ubu 21 Boogie Motel Foghat A Different Kind of Tension Buzzcocks Dream Police Cheap Trick Here Leo Sayer Lovehunter Whitesnake Oceans of Fantasy Boney M. The Raven The Stranglers Uncle Jam Wants You Funkadelic Unleashed in the East Judas Priest Live24 The Long Run Eagles 26 Three U2 Debut/EP25 Entertainment! Gang of Four One Voice Barry Manilow Singles Going Steady Buzzcocks Compilation Solid State Survivor Yellow Magic Orchestra 27 Recent Songs Leonard Cohen 28 Eat to the Beat Blondie N/A 154 Wire The Adventures of the Hersham Boys Sham 69 Eve The Alan Parsons Project The Glow Bonnie Raitt Kenny Kenny Rogers Legends of the Lost and Found Harry Chapin Live Live and Sleazy Village People Double LP; one disc live, one disc studio Marathon Santana Night Rains Janis Ian Out of a Dream Reba McEntire Power Play Dragon Quadrophenia The Who SoundtrackStrong Martin Charles https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/896/mode/ The Great Rock Discography 1995 896 Canongate Press 978-0-86241-541-9 Satisfied Rita Coolidge Street Machine Sammy Hagar This Heat This Heat Top Priority Rory Gallagher Western Culture Henry Cow October DayAlbumArtistNotes1 Return to Base Slade2 Survival Bob Marley & The Wailers5 Reggatta de Blanc The Police The Fine Art of Surfacing The Boomtown Rats I'm the Man Joe Jackson A Curious Feeling Tony BanksSolo Debut Reproduction The Human LeagueDebut Partners in Crime Rupert Holmes12 Tusk Fleetwood MacUS Bomber Motörhead Mr. Universe Gillan Whatever You Want Status Quo Victim of Love Elton John Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Rod Stewart Compilation Days in Europa The Skids 15 On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II Donna Summer Compilation16 Fire It Up Rick James The Message Is Love Barry White 19 Prince Prince Damn the Torpedoes Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers One Step Beyond... Madness The Specials The Specials22 Prisoner Cher23 You Know How to Love Me Phyllis Hyman Mix-Up Cabaret Voltaire26 Hydra Toto Dragnet The Fall29 Greatest Hits Volume 2 ABBA Compilation30 Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" Stevie Wonder N/A Cornerstone Styx Bee Gees Greatest Bee Gees Compilation Cut Above the Rest SweetUK Flirtin' with Disaster Molly Hatchet Harder ... Faster April Wine Head Injuries Midnight Oil I'll Always Love You Anne Murray Keep the Fire Kenny Loggins Magnum II Magnum Primal Park Mondo Rock Reality Effect The Tourists Rockin' into the Night 38 Special Thighs and Whispers Bette Midler Wet Barbra Streisand (GI) Germs November DayAlbumArtistNotes1 Freedom at Point Zero Jefferson Starship 2 On Parole Motörhead Recorded in 1976 Broken English Marianne Faithfull6 Pretty Paper Willie Nelson Christmas9 The Soundhouse Tapes Iron Maiden Debut/EP Machine Gun Etiquette The Damned 14 Live Rust Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Down on the Farm Little Feat16 Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert Emerson, Lake & Palmer Livehttps://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Emerson%2C+Lake+%26+Palmer&titel=In+Concert&cat=a In Concert Dutchcharts.nl April 7, 2026 Night in the Ruts Aerosmith Setting Sons The Jam 19 Joe's Garage Acts II & III Frank Zappa 23 Real to Real Cacophony Simple Minds Platinum Mike Oldfield ELO's Greatest Hits Electric Light Orchestra Compilation Metal Box Public Image Ltd. The Raincoats The Raincoats Debut Live! Coast to Coast Teddy Pendergrass Live28 Gloryhallastoopid Parliament 30 The Wall Pink Floyd New York–London–Paris–Munich M Dirk Wears White Sox Adam and the Ants N/A Brass Construction 5 Brass Construction Degüello ZZ Top English Garden Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club Get Wet Mental As Anything Masterjam Rufus No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future Various Artists Triple Live LP Not Like Everybody Else! Jimmy and the Boys Phoenix Dan Fogelberg The Reels The Reels Sometimes You Win Dr. Hook We're the Best of Friends Natalie Cole & Peabo Bryson December DayAlbumArtistNotes7 Quiet Life Japan International14 London Calling The Clash 20 Christopher Cross Christopher Cross Warner Bros.27 Adventures in Utopia Utopia 31 Score Carol Lloyd N/A 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle Sid Sings Sid Vicious September Morn Neil Diamond Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits Chic Sabotage/Live John Cale Live Release date unknown 3D – The Three Degrees An American Dream - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Art of the Acoustic Steel String Guitar 6 & 12 – Robbie Basho The Beat – The Beat The Beatles Concerto – John Rutter Breaking Loose – Helix Buona domenica – Antonello Venditti Buy – James Chance & the Contortions California – Gianna Nannini The Candidate – Steve Harley Casino Classics: Chapter One – Various artists Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella – Nurse With Wound A Classy Pair – Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie The Crack – The Ruts Deltics – Chris Rea Demo EP – Oingo Boingo Disco Nights – GQ Digital III at Montreux – Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Joe Pass Divine Love – Leo Smith Don't Fight It – Red Rider Earthquake – Electric Sun Fine and Mellow – Ella Fitzgerald French Skyline – Earthstar Future Now – Pleasure Grosses Wasser – Cluster Hair – Various Artists – Soundtrack Identify Yourself – The O'Jays I Wanna Play For You - Stanley Clarke The Innes Book of Records – Neil Innes Invasion of the Booty Snatchers – Parlet Is There More to Life Than Dancing? – Noël Jardin Au Fou – Hans-Joachim Roedelius John Fahey Visits Washington D.C. – John Fahey The Kenny Rogers Singles Album – Kenny Rogers Lenox Avenue Breakdown – Arthur Blythe Let's Drip Awhile – Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons - Live Live & Direct - Taj Mahal - Live Live! Go for What You Know – Pat Travers Band Living Dub Vol. 1 - Burning Spear Loleatta Holloway - Loleatta Holloway The London Concert – Oscar Peterson Looking for Saint Tropez – Telex Lots of Luv' – Luv' Lubbock (On Everything) – Terry Allen Making a Name for Myself - Roger Miller Morning Dance – Spyro Gyra A Night at Studio 54 – Various artists Nuba – Andrew Cyrille, Jeanne Lee, Jimmy Lyons On the Road Again – Roy Wood A Perfect Match – Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie Press Color - Lizzy Mercier Descloux Push Pull - Jimmy Lyons Rainbow's End – Resurrection Band Rise – Herb Alpert Rockit – Chuck Berry Rock On – Raydio The Roches – The Roches Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes – Eloy Sky – Sky A Slice of the Top – Hank Mobley with Lee Morgan Slumberin' on the Cumberland - John Hartford Songs of Love – Anita Ward Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Jerry Goldsmith – Soundtrack Stations of the Crass – Crass Street Life – The Crusaders Stone Crazy! – Buddy Guy Take It Home – B.B. King Tango Palace - Dr. John Teenage Warning – Angelic Upstarts Thanks, I'll Eat It Here – Lowell George Tiger in the Rain – Michael Franks Together Again – The Dubliners True Luv' – Luv' The Very Best of Leo Sayer – Leo Sayer Walking on Sunshine – Eddy Grant Washes Whiter Than – Petra Biggest hit singles The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1979.http://tsort.info/music/yr1979.htm Songs from the Year 1979 Tsort.info April 7, 2026 # Artist Title Year Country Chart entries 1 Blondie Heart of Glass 1979 US UK 1 – Jan 1979, US BB 1 – Mar 1979, Canada 1 – Mar 1979, Austria 1 – Mar 1979, Switzerland 1 – Feb 1979, Germany 1 – Feb 1979, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1980, Sweden (alt) 3 – Mar 1979, France 3 – Feb 1979, Australia 3 of 1979, Netherlands 5 – Feb 1979, Norway 5 – Mar 1979, RYM 8 of 1979, US CashBox 11 of 1979, US BB 1 of 1979, POP 13 of 1979, South Africa 15 of 1979, Italy 29 of 1979, Virgin 29, OzNet 30, Scrobulate 46 of 80s, Germany 54 of the 1970s, RIAA 217, Acclaimed 241, Rolling Stone 255 2 Chic Le Freak 1978 US US Billboard 1 - Oct 1978 (24 weeks), US CashBox 1 of 1979, Record World 1 - 1978, US Radio 1 of 1978 (peak 1 16 weeks), Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks - Jan 1979, New Zealand 1 for 4 weeks - Jan 1979, RIANZ 1 - Dec 1978 (19 weeks), Australia 1 for 5 weeks - Feb 1979, Springbok 1 - Feb 1979 (14 weeks), Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015 (1978), Library of Congress artifact added 2017 (1978), Holland 2 - Dec 1978 (20 weeks), France (SNEP) 2 - Feb 1979 (4 months), Switzerland 2 - Jan 1979 (14 weeks), Belgium 2 - Dec 1978 (14 weeks), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Dec 1978), US BB 3 of 1979, Canada 3 - Dec 1978 (20 weeks), France 3 - Feb 1979 (3 weeks), Brazil 4 of 1979, UK Gold (certified by BPI in Apr 1979), Germany 5 - Jan 1979 (5 months), ODK Germany 5 - Jan 1979 (22 weeks) (9 weeks in top 10), Sweden (alt) 6 - Dec 1978 (18 weeks), Austria 6 - Feb 1979 (4 months), UK 7 - Nov 1978 (16 weeks), Australia 8 of 1979, South Africa 8 of 1979, Norway 9 - Apr 1979 (3 weeks), Italy 12 of 1979, WABC NY 13 of 1979, Scrobulate 13 of disco, Switzerland 17 of 1979, Billboard 50th song 19, 55th Billboard 100 21 (1978), Billboard100 22, POP 26 of 1978, Canada 42 of 1979, France (InfoDisc) 51 of the 1970s (peak 2, 30 weeks, 700k sales estimated, 1978), nuTsie 80 of 1970s, Germany 270 of the 1970s (peak 5 15 weeks), Acclaimed 365 (1978), OzNet 761, RYM 55 of 1978, Guardian Dance 4, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1979, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 3 Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive 1978 US UK 1 – Feb 1979, US BB 1 – Jan 1979, US BB 1 of 1979, Canada 1 – Mar 1979, Republic of Ireland 1 – Mar 1979, POP 2 of 1979, Sweden (alt) 3 – Apr 1979, Netherlands 4 – Mar 1979, Norway 4 – May 1979, Switzerland 7 – Apr 1979, Scrobulate 8 of disco, Germany 9 – Mar 1979, US CashBox 10 of 1979, France 10 – Mar 1979, South Africa 16 of 1979, Austria 17 – May 1979, Party 24 of 1999, Australia 25 of 1979, Italy 38 of 1979, Europe 66 of the 1970s, RYM 67 of 1978, RIAA 89, OzNet 155, Acclaimed 416, Rolling Stone 489 4 Patrick Hernandez Born to Be Alive 1979 France Sweden (alt) 1 – Jul 1979 (20 weeks), France (SNEP) 1 – Feb 1979 (5 months), France 1 – Mar 1979 (5 weeks), Austria 1 – Apr 1979 (6 weeks), Norway 1 – Jul 1979 (17 weeks), Belgium 1 – Jan 1979 (18 weeks), Germany 1 – Mar 1979 (6 months), Canada RPM 1 for 2 weeks – Aug 1979, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks – Oct 1979, RIANZ 1 – Sep 1979 (14 weeks), Australia 1 for 5 weeks – Oct 1979, France 1 for 15 weeks – Mar 1979, Germany 1 for 5 weeks – May 1979, France (InfoDisc) 4 of the 1970s (peak 1, 30 weeks, 1,412k sales estimated, 1979), US Gold (certified by RIAA in Nov 1979), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 1979), Netherlands 5 – Feb 1979 (18 weeks), Switzerland 5 – Feb 1979 (13 weeks), Australia 5 of 1979, Springbok 6 – Aug 1979 (11 weeks), Italy 7 of 1979, UK 10 – Jun 1979 (14 weeks), POP 11 of 1979, Canada 12 – Jul 1979 (6 weeks), US BB 15 of 1979, US Billboard 16 – Jun 1979 (19 weeks), Record World 19 – 1979, Germany 20 of the 1970s (peak 1 25 weeks), Brazil 32 of 1979, Scrobulate 68 of disco, US Radio 108 of 1979 (peak 16 5 weeks), RYM 200 of 1979, UK Silver (certified by BPI in Sep 1979), Global 7 (10 M sold) – 1979 5 Bee Gees Tragedy 1979 UK UK 1 - Feb 1979 (10 weeks), US Billboard 1 - Feb 1979 (20 weeks), Record World 1 - 1979, Canada 1 - Feb 1979 (16 weeks), France 1 - Mar 1979 (4 weeks), Italy 1 for 7 weeks - Mar 1979, Eire 1 for 2 weeks - Feb 1979, Canada RPM 1 for 4 weeks - Mar 1979, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks - Mar 1979, RIANZ 1 - Mar 1979 (13 weeks), Europe 1 for 5 weeks - Mar 1979, France 1 for 4 weeks - Feb 1979, Austria 2 - Apr 1979 (4 months), Switzerland 2 - Mar 1979 (10 weeks), Belgium 2 - Feb 1979 (11 weeks), ODK Germany 2 - Feb 1979 (20 weeks) (10 weeks in top 10), Springbok 2 - Apr 1979 (9 weeks), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in May 1979), France (SNEP) 3 - Mar 1979 (4 months), Holland 4 - Feb 1979 (10 weeks), Norway 4 - Mar 1979 (7 weeks), Italy 4 of 1979, Germany 4 - Mar 1979 (3 months), UK Gold (certified by BPI in Feb 1979), Sweden (alt) 6 - Mar 1979 (12 weeks), Brazil 8 of 1979, Canada 12 of 1979, France (InfoDisc) 14 of the 1970s (peak 1, 26 weeks, 821k sales estimated, 1979), South Africa 14 of 1979, US BB 16 of 1979, US Radio 17 of 1979 (peak 1 11 weeks), US CashBox 19 of 1979, WABC NY 23 of 1979, Scrobulate 79 of disco, OzNet 106, Germany 227 of the 1970s (peak 2 13 weeks), RYM 136 of 1979 Chronological list of US and UK and Japan number-one hit singles US number-one singles and artist (weeks at No. 1) "Babe" – Styx (2) "Bad Girls" – Donna Summer (5) "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" – Rod Stewart (4) "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" – Michael Jackson (1) "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" – Rupert Holmes (2 weeks in 1979 + 1 week in 1980) "Good Times" – Chic (1) "Heart of Glass" – Blondie (1) "Heartache Tonight" – The Eagles (1) "Hot Stuff" – Donna Summer (3) "I Will Survive" – Gloria Gaynor (3) "Knock on Wood" – Amii Stewart (1) "Le Freak" – Chic (3 weeks in 1978 + 3 weeks in 1979) "Love You Inside Out" – Bee Gees (1) "My Sharona" – The Knack (6) "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" – Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (2) "Pop Muzik" – M (1) "Reunited" – Peaches & Herb (4) "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward (2) "Rise" – Herb Alpert (2) "Sad Eyes" – Robert John (1) "Still" – Commodores (1) "Too Much Heaven" – Bee Gees (2) "Tragedy" – Bee Gees (2) "What a Fool Believes" – The Doobie Brothers (1) Also see: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1979 UK number-one singles and artist (weeks at No. 1) "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" – Pink Floyd (3 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1980) "Are 'Friends' Electric?" – Tubeway Army (4) "Bright Eyes" – Art Garfunkel (6) "Cars" – Gary Numan (1) "Heart of Glass" – Blondie (4) "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" – Ian Dury and The Blockheads (1) "I Don't Like Mondays" – The Boomtown Rats (4) "I Will Survive" – Gloria Gaynor (4) "Message in a Bottle" – The Police (3) "One Day at a Time" – Lena Martell (3) "Ring My Bell" – Anita Ward (2) "Sunday Girl" – Blondie (3) "Tragedy" – Bee Gees (2) "Video Killed the Radio Star" – The Buggles (1) "Walking on the Moon" – The Police (1) "We Don't Talk Anymore" – Cliff Richard (4) "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" – Dr. Hook (3) "Y.M.C.A." – Village People (3) Japanese Oricon number-one singles and artist (weeks at No. 1) List of Oricon number-one singles of 1979 Chameleon Army – Pink Lady (4 weeks in 1979 + 2 weeks in 1978) "Champion (Alice song) Champion ja チャンピオン (曲)" – Alice (4) "Hero (Hero ni Naru Toki, Sore wa Ima) ja HERO（ヒーローになる時、それは今）" – Kai Band ja 甲斐バンド (2) Young Man (Y.M.C.A.) – Hideki Saijo (5) "Miserarete ja 魅せられて (ジュディ・オングの曲)" – Judy Ongg (9) "Kimi no Asa ja きみの朝" – Satoshi Kishida ja 岸田敏志 (5) "Omoide-zake ja おもいで酒" – Sachiko Kobayashi (1) "Kanpaku Sengen ja 関白宣言" – Masashi Sada (10) "Sexual Violet No. 1 ja セクシャルバイオレットNo.1" – Masahiro Kuwana ja 桑名正博 (3) "Oyaji no Ichiban Nagai Hi ja 親父の一番長い日" – Masashi Sada (6) "Ihojin" – Saki Kubota (4 weeks in 1979 + 3 weeks in 1980) Top 40 Chart hit singles Song title Artist(s) Release date(s) US UK Highest chart position Other Chart Performance(s) "99" Toto December 1979 26 n/a 26 (US) 17 (Canada) - 97 (Australia) "Accidents Will Happen" Elvis Costello and the Attractions May 1979 101 28 28 (UK) n/a "After the Love Has Gone" Earth, Wind & Fire July 1979 2 4 2 (US) See chart performance entry "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" McFadden & Whitehead April 1979 13 5 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot R&B) See chart performance entry "Angel Eyes" Roxy Music August 1979 n/a 4 4 (UK, Belgium) See chart performance entry "Angeleyes" ABBA July 1979 64 3 3 (UK) 37 (US Adult Contemporary [Billboard]) - 76 (US Cashbox Top 100 Singles) "Baby I'm Burning" Dolly Parton January 1979 25 n/a 1 (Canada Country Singles) See chart performance entry "Baby It's You" Promises February 1979 n/a n/a 1 (New Zealand) 2 (Australia) - 4 (West Germany) - 12 (Belgium) "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" Robert Palmer July 1979 14 61 1 (Canada) See chart performance entry "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan" Marianne Faithfull October 1979 n/a 48 2 (Austria) See chart performance entry "Better Love Next Time" Dr. Hook October 1979 12 8 7 (Ireland) See chart performance entry "Big Shot" Billy Joel January 1979 14 n/a 13 (Canada) 13 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 36 (New Zealand) - 91 (Australia) "Boogie Wonderland" Earth, Wind & Fire with the Emotions May 1979 6 4 2 (France, Norway, US Hot Soul Singles) See chart performance entry "Born to Be Alive" Patrick Hernandez January 1979 16 10 1 (13 Countries) See chart performance entry "Boys Keep Swinging" David Bowie April 1979 n/a 7 7 (UK) 16 (Netherlands) - 18 (Belgium) - 19 (Ireland) - 51 (Spain) - 85 (Australia) "Breakfast in America" Supertramp June 1979 62 9 6 (Ireland) See chart performance entry "Broken Hearted Me" Anne Murray September 1979 12 n/a 15 (Canada) 1 (Canada Country Tracks) - 1 (Canada Adult Contemporary) - 1 (US Hot Country Singles [Billboard]) - 1 (US Adult Contemporary [Billboard]) "Can't Stand Losing You" The Police June 1979 n/a 2 2 (United Kingdom) See chart performance entry "Casanova" Luv' April 1979 n/a n/a 2 (Austria, Denmark, Europe, Netherlands) See chart performance entry "Chuck E.'s In Love" Rickie Lee Jones April 1979 4 18 4 (United States) See chart performance entry "Computer Games" Mi-Sex September 1979 n/a n/a 1 (Australia) 2 (Canada) - 5 (New Zealand) - 16 (Austria) - 44 (Netherlands) - 61 (US Hot Dance Club Songs) "Cool For Cats" Squeeze March 1979 n/a 2 2 (United Kingdom) 5 (Australia) - 11 (New Zealand) - 33 (Netherlands (Single Top 100)) - 39 (Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)) "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen October 1979 1 2 1 (4 countries) See chart performance entry "Chiquitita" ABBA January 1979 29 2 1 (5 countries) See chart performance entry "The Cost of Living" The Clash May 1979 n/a 22 22 (United Kingdom) 24 (Ireland) "Crazy Love" Poco January 1979 17 n/a 17 (United States) 1 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 7 (US Radio & Records chart) - 15 (Canada RPM Top Singles) - 73 (Australia) "Cruel to Be Kind" Nick Lowe August 1979 12 12 12 (Australia, United Kingdom, United States) 12 (Canada RPM Top Singles, U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 34 (New Zealand) "Dance Away" Roxy Music April 1979 44 2 1 (Ireland) 8 (Netherlands) - 10 (New Zealand) - 12 (Belgium) - 20 (Sweden) - 30 (West Germany) - 75 (Canada) - 92 (Australia) "Dance the Night Away" Van Halen April 1979 15 n/a 15 (United States) 28 (Canada) "Dancin' Shoes" Nigel Olsson January 1979 18 n/a 18 (United States) 62 (Australia) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" Charlie Daniels Band May 1979 3 14 3 (United States) 1 (Canada Country Tracks, US Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 4 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 5 (Canada) - 13 (New Zealand) - 14 (Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom) - 25 (Netherlands Dutch Top 20) - 30 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) "The Diary of Horace Wimp" Electric Light Orchestra July 1979 n/a 8 8 (United Kingdom) 10 (Ireland) - 48 (Australia) - 52 (West Germany) "Dim All the Lights" Donna Summer August 1979 2 29 2 (United States) See chart entry performance "Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)" GQ February 1979 12 42 12 (United States) 1 (US Billboard Hot Soul Singles) - 3 (US Billboard Dance Club Songs) - 97 (Australia) "Do Anything You Want To" Thin Lizzy June 1979 81 14 14 (United Kingdom) 25 (Ireland) "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille October 1979 1 7 1 (Belgium, Netherlands, South Africa, United States) See chart performance entry "Does Your Mother Know" ABBA April 1979 19 4 1 (Belgium, Europe) See chart performance entry "Don't Bring Me Down" Electric Light Orchestra August 1979 4 3 1 (Canada) See chart entry performance "Don't Cry Out Loud" Melissa Manchester January 1979 10 n/a 9 (Canada) 2 (Canada RPM Adult Contemporary) - 9 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 10 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 57 (Australia) [Released in October 1978 and continued charting in 1979] "Don't Do Me Like That" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers November 1979 10 n/a 3 (Canada) 7 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 17 (New Zealand) "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" Michael Jackson July 1979 1 3 1 (8 countries) See chart performance entry "Dream Police" Cheap Trick September 1979 26 n/a 5 (Australia) 7 (New Zealand) - 9 (Canada) - 37 (Netherlands Dutch Top 40) - 79 (Japan) "Dreaming" Blondie September 1979 27 2 2 (United Kingdom) See chart entry performance Driver's Seat" Sniff 'n' the Tears May 1979 15 42 1 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100] See chart entry performance "Dschinghis Khan" Dschinghis Khan March 1979 n/a n/a 1 (West Germany) 3 (Norway, Switzerland) - 5 (Finland) - 8 (Austria) - 20 (Belgium) "Every Day Hurts" Sad Café August 1979 n/a 3 3 (United Kingdom) 78 (Australia) "Fire" The Pointer Sisters March 1979 2* 34 1 (4 countries) See chart entry performance *1978 in US "Get Used to It" Roger Voudouris March 1979 22 n/a 4 (Australia) 18 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 22 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 20 (New Zealand) - 45 (Canada) "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" ABBA October 1979 n/a 3 1 (6 countries) See chart entry performances "Girls Talk" Dave Edmunds May 1979 65 4 4 (United Kingdom) 9 (Australia) - 11 (Ireland) - 18 (Canada) - 65 (US Cash Box Top 100) "Go West" Village People June 1979 45 15 12 (Belgium) 13 (Canada) - 14 (US Billboard Dance Club Songs) - 15 (Ireland, United Kingdom) - 29 (Netherlands [Single Top 100]) - 31 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40)] - 41 (Canada) "Gold" John Stewart May 1979 5 43 4 (Canada) 5 (Australia) - 6 (US Cash Box Top 100) - 13 (New Zealand) - 42 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) "Good Times" Chic June 1979 1 5 1 (Canada, United States) See chart entry performance "Goodbye Stranger" Supertramp March 1979 15 57 6 (Canada) See chart entry performance "Goodnight Tonight" Wings June 1979 5 5 1 (Canada) See chart entry "Half The Way" Crystal Gayle September 1979 15 n/a 1 (Canada) 2 (Canadian Adult Contemporary Tracks) - 2 (US Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 4 (South Africa) - 9 (US Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 56 (Canada) "Halfway Hotel" Voyager April 1979 n/a 33 33 (United Kingdom) 15 (Australia) "Hallelujah" Milk and Honey, including Gali Atari April 1979 n/a 5 1 (Finland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Sweden) See chart performance entry "He's the Greatest Dancer" Sister Sledge February 1979 9 6 6 (Canada, United Kingdom) See chart performance entry "Heaven Knows" Donna Summer w/Brooklyn Dreams January 1979 4 34 3 (Canada) See chart performance entry "Highway to Hell" AC/DC July 1979 47 56 14 (Belgian) See chart performance entry "Honesty" Billy Joel May 1979 24 n/a 1 (France) See chart performance entry "I Have a Dream" ABBA December 1979 n/a 2 1 (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40)/[Single Top 100), Switzerland) 2 (Ireland) - 3 (South Africa) - 64 (Australia) "I Know a Heartache When I See One" Jennifer Warnes June 1979 19 n/a 19 (United States) 10 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 12 (Canada RPM Country) - 14 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 21 (U.S. Cash Box Top 100) - 46 (Canada RPM Top Singles) "I Just Fall in Love Again" Anne Murray January 1979 12 58 1 (Canada) 1 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks, Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary, U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs, U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks) - 46 (Australia) "I Want You To Want Me (live)" Cheap Trick April 1979 7 29 1 (Belgium, Japan, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]) 2 (Canada) - 3 (U.S. Cash Box top 100) - 15 (Austria) - 18 (West Germany) - 23 (New Zealand) "I Was Made For Lovin' You" Kiss May 1979 11 50 1 (Belgium, Canada, France, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100], New Zealand) See chart performance entry "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor October 1979 1 1 1 (Ireland, United Kingdom, United States) See chart performance entry "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me" The Bellamy Brothers March 1979 39 3 3 (United Kingdom) 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 11 (Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]) - 17 (New Zealand) - 24 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks) "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" Barbara Mandrell February 1979 31 n/a 31 (United States) 1 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs) - 6 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) "In the Navy" Village People March 1979 3 n/a 1 (Belgium, Canada, Netherlands [Dutch Top 40]/[Single Top 100]) See chart performance entry "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" Joe Jackson April 1979 21 13 8 (Ireland) 9 (Canada) - 15 (Australia) - 18 (New Zealand) - 46 (Netherlands [Single Top 100)] "Lucky Number" Lene Lovich January 1979 n/a 3 2 (Australia) See chart performance entry "This Is It" Kenny Loggins October 1979 11 n/a 9 (Canada) See chart performance entry "Tusk" Fleetwood Mac September 1979 8 6 3 (Australia) See chart performance entry "Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles September 1979 40 1 1 (11 countries) See chart performance entry "We Don't Talk Anymore" Cliff Richard July 1979 7 1 1 (11 countries) See chart performance entry "Weekend" Earth and Fire November 1979 n/a n/a 1 (7 countries) See chart performance entry "Who Listens to the Radio" The Sports November 1979 45 n/a 35 (Australia) An original 45 version charted in Australia in November 1978. The Album version charted in the US a year later "You Decorated My Life" Kenny Rogers September 1979 7 n/a 7 (United Kingdom) See chart performance entry "You're Only Lonely" JD Souther September 1979 7 n/a 7 (United States) 1 (U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary) - 2 (Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary) - 12 (Canadian RPM Country Tracks) - 17 (Australia) - 18 (Canadian RPM Top Singles) - 60 (U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles) "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" Long John Baldry and Kathi McDonald June 1979 89 n/a 2 (Australia) 37 (New Zealand) - 45 (Canada) Number One hit singles Song title Artist(s) Release date(s) Date reached number one Weeks at number one Country(s) "(You Gotta Walk And) Don't Look Back" Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger 1978-10 1979-01 2 weeks The Netherlands "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" Pink Floyd 1979-11 1979-12 5 weeks 15 countries "Are 'Friends' Electric?" Tubeway Army 1979-05 1979-06 4 weeks United Kingdom "Babe" Styx 1979-09 1979-12 2 weeks Canada, South Africa, United States "Baby It's You" Promises 1979-02 1979-04 1 week New Zealand "Bad Girls" Donna Summer 1979-05 1979-07 5 weeks Canada, United States "Born to Be Alive" Patrick Hernandez 1978-11 1979-04 4 weeks 15 countries "Bright Eyes" Art Garfunkel 1979-01 1979-04 6 weeks Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom "C'mon Aussie C'mon" The Mojo Singers 1978-12 1979-02 2 weeks Australia "Ça plane pour moi" Plastic Bertrand 1977-12 1979-02 1 week France, Switzerland "Chiquitita" ABBA 1979-01 1979-02 4 weeks 10 countries "Computer Games" Mi-Sex 1979-10 1979-11 1 week Australia "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Rod Stewart 1978-11 1979-02 4 weeks 6 countries "Darlin'" Frankie Miller 1978-10 1979-01 1 week Norway " Do You Want Your Old Lobby Washed Down, Con Shine" Brendan Shine 1979-04 1979-06 6 weeks Ireland "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" Michael Jackson 1979-07 1979-10 6 weeks 6 countries "Dschinghis Khan" Dschinghis Khan 1979-03 1979-06 4 weeks West Germany "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" Rupert Holmes 1979-09 1979-12 3 weeks Canada, United States "Fire" Pointer Sisters 1978-10 1979-02 2 weeks 5 countries "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" ABBA 1979-10 1979-10 1 week 7 countries "Good Times" Chic 1979-07 1979-08 1 week United States "Gotta Go Home" / "El Lute" Boney M. 1979-07 1979-08 8 weeks Europe, West Germany "Green Fields Of France" The Fureys and Davey Arthur 1979-03 1979-06 1 weeks Ireland "Hallelujah" Milk and Honey 1979-04 1979-05 1 week 5 countries "Heart of Glass" Blondie 1979-01 1979-02 4 weeks 8 countries "Heartache Tonight" Eagles 1979-10 1979-11 1 week Canada, United States "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" Ian Dury and the Blockheads 1978-11 1979-01 1 week United Kingdom "Hot Stuff" Donna Summer 1979-04 1979-06 3 weeks 6 countries "I Don't Like Mondays" The Boomtown Rats 1979-07 1979-07 4 weeks 4 countries "I Was Made for Lovin' You" KISS 1979-05 1979-06 4 weeks 5 countries "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor 1978-10 1979-03 3 weeks Ireland, United Kingdom, United States "In the Navy" Village People 1979-03 1979-04 6 weeks Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands "Jezebel" Jon Stevens 1979-10 1979-11 5 weeks New Zealand "Knock on Wood" Amii Stewart 1979-01 1979-04 1 week Canada, Italy, United States "Lay Your Love on Me" Racey 1978-11 1979-03 2 weeks Australia, The Netherlands, New Zealand "Le Freak" Chic 1978-09 1979-01 6 weeks 5 countries "Love You Inside Out" Bee Gees 1979-04 1979-06 1 week Canada, United States "MacArthur Park" Donna Summer 1978-09 1979-01 1 week Canada, United States "Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord" Boney M. 1978-11 1979-01 3 weeks 5 countries "Message in a Bottle" The Police 1979-09 1979-09 3 weeks Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" Richard Jon Smith 1979-04 1979-06 2 weeks South Africa "Moskau" Dschinghis Khan 1979-05 1979-08 6 week Australia September 1980 in Australia "My Sharona" The Knack 1979-06 1979-08 6 weeks 4 countries "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer 1979-10 1979-11 2 weeks Sweden, United States "One Day at a Time" Lena Martell 1979-09 1979-10 3 weeks United Kingdom "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" Meat Loaf 1977-08 1979-01 3 weeks The Netherlands "Please Don't Go" KC & The Sunshine Band 1979-07 1979-12 1 week 4 countries "Pop Muzik" M 1979-03 1979-05 3 weeks 9 countries "Reunited" Peaches & Herb 1979-03 1979-05 4 weeks Canada, Spain, United States "Ring My Bell" Anita Ward 1979-05 1979-06 2 weeks 6 countries "Rise" Herb Alpert 1979-07 1979-10 2 weeks United States "Rock with You" Michael Jackson 1979-11 1979-12 1 week United States "Sad Eyes" Robert John 1979-04 1979-10 1 week United States "Six Ribbons" Jon English and Mario Millo 1978-11 1979-01 2 weeks Norway "So bist du" Peter Maffay 1979-08 1979-10 3 weeks West Germany "Some Girls" Racey 1979-03 1979-05 2 weeks Australia, New Zealand "Still" Commodores 1979-09 1979-11 1 week United States "Sunday Girl" Blondie 1979-05 1979-05 3 weeks Ireland, United Kingdom "The Logical Song" Supertramp 1979-03 1979-06 2 weeks Canada "Three Times a Lady" Commodores 1978-06 1979-01 3 weeks 5 countries "Too Much Heaven" Bee Gees 1978-11 1979-01 2 weeks 12 countries "Tragedy" Bee Gees 1979-02 1979-03 2 weeks 9 countries Other Chart hit singles "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)" – The Dickies (# 7 UK) "Bat Out of Hell" – Meat Loaf (# 8 UK) "Beautiful People" – Australian Crawl (# 22 Australia) "Bright Side of the Road" – Van Morrison (# 63 UK, # 48 Netherlands) "C'mon Aussie C'mon" – The Mojo Singers (# 1 Australia - originally released in 1978) "Choirgirl" – Cold Chisel (# 14 Australia) "Dancing Barefoot" – Patti Smith Group (# 39 Netherlands) "Death Disco" – Public Image Ltd. (# 20 United Kingdom) "D.I.S.C.O." – Ottawan (# 1 Netherlands, # 2 United Kingdom) "The Eton Rifles" – The Jam (# 3 United Kingdom, # 50 Australia) "Freedom's Prisoner" – Steve Harley (# 58 UK) "Good Times Roll" - The Cars (# 41 United States, # 60 US Cash Box Top 100 Singles, # 74 Canada) "Here Comes the Summer" – The Undertones (# 34 UK) "Hersham Boys" – Sham 69 (# 6 UK) "Hit and Run" – Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (# 12 Australia) "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" - Jimmy and the Boys (# 57 Australia) "I Do Love You" – GQ (# 20 US, # 5 US R&B charts) "I Just Can't Be Happy Today" – The Damned (# 46 UK) "I Wanna Be Sedated" – Ramones "Into the Valley" – The Skids (# 10 UK) "Jezebel – Jon Stevens (# 1 New Zealand) "Jimmy Jimmy" – The Undertones (# 16 UK) "Just the Way You Are" – Barry White "Just What I Needed" – The Cars "Just When I Needed You Most" – Randy VanWarmer "Lay Your Love on Me" – Racey "Lead Me On" – Maxine Nightingale "Let's Go" – The Cars "Life During Wartime" – Talking Heads "Little Bit of Soap" – Nigel Olsson "The Logical Song" – Supertramp "London Calling" – The Clash "Lonesome Loser" – Little River Band "The Long Run" – Eagles "Lotta Love" – Nicolette Larson "Love Song" – The Damned "Lucky Number" – Lene Lovich "The Main Event/Fight" – Barbra Streisand "Make My Dreams a Reality" – GQ "Making Plans for Nigel" – XTC "Mama Can't Buy You Love" – Elton John "A Message to You, Rudy/Nite Klub" – The Specials "Message in a Bottle" – The Police "Milk and Alcohol" – Dr. Feelgood "Morning Dance" – Spyro Gyra "Moskau" – Dschinghis Khan "Music Box Dancer" – Frank Mills "My Forbidden Lover" – Chic "My Girl" – Madness "My Life" – Billy Joel "Nami Nori Pirates" – Pink Lady (band) "Old Time Rock and Roll" – Bob Seger "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 "Ooh Baby Baby" – Linda Ronstadt "Ooh, Yes I Do" – Luv' "Parisienne Walkways" – Gary Moore "Playground Twist" – Siouxsie and the Banshees "Please Don't Go" – KC & The Sunshine Band "The Prince" – Madness "Queen of Hearts" – Dave Edmunds "Questions and Answers" – Sham 69 "Rapper's Delight" – The Sugarhill Gang (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40) "Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)" – Ian Dury & the Blockheads "Refugee" – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers "Rock with You" – Michael Jackson "Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto" – The Shadows "Roxanne" – The Police (released in 1978) "Run Like Hell" – Pink Floyd "Sad Eyes" – Robert John "Sail On" – Commodores "Shadows in the Moonlight" – Anne Murray "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" – The Jacksons "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 "Shivers" - The Boys Next Door "Since You Been Gone" – Rainbow "Slap and Tickle" – Squeeze "Smash It Up" – The Damned "Some Girls" – Racey "Somethin' Else"/"Friggin' in the Riggin'" – Sex Pistols "Somewhere in the Night" – Barry Manilow "Song on the Radio" – Al Stewart "Spiral Scratch" – Buzzcocks "The Staircase (Mystery)" – Siouxsie and the Banshees "Strange Town" – The Jam "Street Life" – The Crusaders w/Randy Crawford "Stumblin' In" – Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman "Sultans of Swing" – Dire Straits (released in 1978) "Take Me Home – Cher "Take On The World" – Judas Priest "Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp "Talking In Your Sleep" – Crystal Gayle "Tears of a Clown"/"Ranking Full Stop" – The Beat "Theme from the Deerhunter (Cavatina)" – The Shadows "Transmission" – Joy Division "Union City Blue" – Blondie "Up the Junction" – Squeeze "Up There Cazaly" – The Two Man Band "Video Killed The Radio Star" – The Buggles "Voulez-Vous" – ABBA "Waiting for an Alibi" – Thin Lizzy "We Are Family" – Sister Sledge "We Don't Talk Anymore" – Cliff Richard "What I Like About You" - The Romantics (Began charting in 1980) "Whatever You Want" – Status Quo "When I Think of You" – Leif Garrett "When You're Young" – The Jam "Who Listens to the Radio" (Album version) - The Sports (# 35 Australia- original 45) - (# 45 United States - Album version) "Wonderful Christmastime" – Paul McCartney "Y.M.C.A" – Village People "You Decorated My Life" – Kenny Rogers "You Needed Me" – Anne Murray (in the UK; hit #1 in the US in 1978) "You Take My Breath Away" – Rex Smith "You're a Better Man Than I" – Sham 69 "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)" – The Undertones Notable singles Song title Artist(s) Release date(s) Other Chart Performance(s)"Bela Lugosi's Dead" Bauhaus August 1979 n/a"Boys Don't Cry" The Cure July 1979 99 (Australia)"California über alles" Dead Kennedys June 1979 4 (UK Indie Chart)"Death Disco" Public Image Ltd June 1979 20 (UK Singles Chart)"Jumping Someone Else's Train" The Cure November 1979 n/a"Life During Wartime" Talking Heads September 1979 80 (US Billboard Hot 100)"Mania de você" Rita Lee August 1979 n/a"Mittageisen" Siouxsie and the Banshees September 1979 47 (UK Singles Chart)"Playground Twist" Siouxsie and the Banshees June 1979 28 (UK Singles Chart)"Rapper's Delight" The Sugarhill Gang September 1979 (#36 US: first rap song to hit Billboard's Top 40)"Shivers" The Boys Next Door May 1979 n/a"The Staircase (Mystery)" Siouxsie and the Banshees March 1979 24 (UK Singles Chart)"They Don't Know" Kirsty MacColl June 1979 n/a"Transmission" Joy Division October 1979 n/a"Typical Girls" / "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" The Slits September 1979 60 (UK singles Chart) Other notable singles "Baby Doll" - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks "Fa Cé La" - The Feelies "Gidget Goes to Hell" - Suburban Lawns "Orphans" - Teenage Jesus and the Jerks "Rowche Rumble" - The Fall "Run by Night" - Midnight Oil 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 "The Rainbow Connection" w.m. Kenny Ascher & Paul Williams, from the film The Muppet Movie "Sultans of Swing" w.m. Mark Knopfler Classical music Arno Babadjanian – Third String Quartet Milton Babbitt An Elizabethan Sextette, for six female voices Images, for saxophone and tape Paraphrases, for ten instruments Osvaldas Balakauskas – Symphony No. 2 Pascal Bentoiu – Symphony No. 5, Op. 26 Luciano Berio – Scena Harrison Birtwistle – ... agm ..., for sixteen voices and three instrumental ensembles John Cage Hymns and Variations, for twelve amplified voices Roaratorio for tape George Crumb Apparition for soprano and amplified piano Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano (four hands) 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 Peter Maxwell Davies Black Pentecost, for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra, Op. 82 Kirkwall Shopping Songs, for young voices and instruments, Op. 85 Nocturne, for alto flute solo, Op. 84 Quiet Memory of Bob Jennings, for violin, viola, and cello, WoO 135 Salome, concert suite from the ballet, Op. 80b Solstice of Light, cantata for tenor, SATB chorus, and organ, Op. 83 Morton Feldman String Quartet No. 1 Violin and Orchestra Hugh Flynn – Birds Philip Glass Dance (Dances 1, 3 and 5, with Lucinda Childs and Sol LeWitt), for ensemble Mad Rush, for piano or electric organ Alexander Goehr Babylon the Great Is Fallen, cantata, Op. 40 Chaconne for organ, Op. 34a Das Gesetz der Quadrille, Op. 41 Sinfonia, Op. 42 Cristóbal Halffter Officium defunctuorum, for orchestra and chorus Violin Concerto No. 1 Jacques Hétu – Bassoon Concerto Vagn Holmboe Violin Concerto No. 2 Notater for 3 trombones (alto, tenor, baritone) and tuba Konstateringer for choir Guitar Sonata No. 1 Guitar Sonata No. 2 Accordion Sonata No. 1 Bogtrykkemaskinen for violin and piano Miloslav Kabelac – Metamorphoses II, for piano and orchestra, Op. 58 Wojciech Kilar – Fanfare for mixed choir and orchestra Hoary Fog (Siwa mgła), for baritone and orchestra Witold Lutosławski – Novelette for orchestra William Lloyd Webber – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae Tomás Marco Aria de la batalla, for organ Tartessos, for four percussionists Richard Meale – Viridian, for orchestra Paul Moravec Ave Verum Corpus, for SATB chorus Missa Miserere, for SATB chorus and orchestra Pater Noster, for SATB chorus Ștefan Niculescu – Sincronie for flute, oboe and bassoon Allan Pettersson – Viola Concerto Steve Reich Octet Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards R. Murray Schafer Beauty and the Beast, from Patria 3, for alto with masks and string quartet Felix's Girls, from Patria 3, for SATB quartet or choir Gamelan, from Patria 3, for SATB, SASA, or TBTB solo quartet or choir Hear Me Out from Patria 3, for four speaking voices Music for Wilderness Lake, for twelve trombones and small rural lake Ontario Variations on a theme by Jack Behrens (one variation), for piano, contribution to collective work by Ontario composers Peter Sculthorpe Four Little Pieces, for piano duet Mangrove, for orchestra Requiem, for cello alone Denis Smalley – The Pulses of Time, electronic music Roger Smalley – String Quartet Michael Tippett – Triple Concerto for violin, viola, and cello Anatol Vieru Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra Iosif si fratii sai, for eleven instruments and tape Malcolm Williamson – Fanfarade, for orchestra Charles Wuorinen Fortune, for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano Joan's, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano The Magic Art, instrumental masque, for chamber orchestra Percussion Duo, for mallet instruments and piano Psalm 39, for baritone and guitar String Quartet No. 2 Three Songs, for tenor and piano Iannis Xenakis Anémoessa, for SATB chorus of 42 or 84 voices and orchestra Dikhthas, for violin and piano Palimpsest, for cor anglais, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, and string quintet Opera Peter Maxwell Davies Cinderella, Op. 87 The Lighthouse, Op. 86 Hossein Dehlavi – Mana and Manihttps://en.mehrnews.com/news/108280/Maestro-s-wife-to-honor-him-with-academy Maestro's wife to honor him with academy 30 June 2015 Mehr News Agency 17 October 2019 Libby Larsen – The Silver Fox Roger Smalley – William Derrincourt (Perth, 31 August) Jazz 1979 in jazz Musical theatre 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. Carmelina (Book: Alan Jay Lerner & Joseph Stein Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner Music: Burton Lane) Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on April 8 and ran for 17 performances. Starring Georgia Brown and Cesare Siepi 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. Saravá (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. Musical films All That Jazz Balada pro banditu Hair Metamorphoses The Muppet Movie The Music Machine Ochen sinjaja boroda (animation) Oolkatal Radio On Rock 'n' Roll High School Roller Boogie The Rose Schlager Skatetown, U.S.A. Births January 1 Brody Dalle, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Koichi Domoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor January 3 – Koit Toome, Estonian actor and singer January 5 – Kathleen Edwards, Canadian singer/musician January 7 – Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman, and philanthropist January 8 – David Civera, Spanish singer January 10 – Christopher Smith, singer-songwriter (Kris Kross) January 11 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer January 15 – Young Dro, American rapper January 16 – Aaliyah Haughton, American singer, actress, and model (d.2001) January 20 Rob Bourdon (Linkin Park) Will Young, British singer Joel Pott, English musician, producer and songwriter (Shura, George Ezra) January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer January 30 – Nam Hyun-joon, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer January 31 – Kim E-Z, South Korean singer (Baby Vox) February 1 Valentín Elizalde, Regional Mexican singer Jason Isbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drive-By Truckers) Julie Roberts, American country singer-songwriter February 5 – Nima Varasteh, Iranian musician February 6 – Dan Balan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone) February 7 – Karin Hills, Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter (Rouge) February 10 Daryl Palumbo, American musician who fronted bands such as Glassjaw Don Omar, Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress February 12 – Jade Jones, British singer and chef, Emma Bunton's partner February 14 – Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi, South African operatic and concert soprano February 15 Adam Granduciel, American musician Fantine Thó, Brazilian and Dutch singer (Rouge) February 16 – Eric Mun, South Korean rapper (Shinhwa) February 17 – Matt Wertz, American singer-songwriter February 21 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress, television producer, director, singer-songwriter, and author\ February 22 – Jessica Kiper ( "Sugar"), American actress, singer, reality TV star and actress February 26 – Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist March 4 Merrill Garbus, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, activist, art-pop musician (Tune-Yards) Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist (The Fratellis) March 7 – Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter and vocal coach March 8 – Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane) March 8 – Zena McNally, English former presenter and singer (Mis-Teeq) March 9 – Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor and musician (Sucker Punch, The Blinking Underdogs, Inside Llewyn Davis) March 11 Benji Madden, American lead guitar for Good Charlotte Joel Madden, American lead vocals for Good Charlotte March 14 – Jacques Brautbar (Phantom Planet) March 18 – Adam Levine, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and record producer (Maroon 5) March 20 – Sean Garrett, American musical producer, musician, songwriter (Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Ciara) March 23 – Ariel Rechtshaid, American record producer, audio engineer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter March 27 – Lee Ji-hoon, South Korean singer (S) March 28 – Shakib Khan, Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser, and media personality March 30 – Norah Jones, American singer-songwriter, pianist April 1 – Mikko Franck, Finnish violinist and conductor April 2 – Jesse Carmichael, American instrumentalist April 3 – DJ Encore, Danish songwriter and producer April 6 Richard Jones, British music producer, songwriter, bass guitar player and founding member of the rock band The Feeling H-Eugene, South Korean rapper and singer April 7 – Nicole Fiorentino, American bass guitarist (Veruca Salt, The Smashing Pumpkins) April 8 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist (d.2020) April 10 Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer-songwriter and dancer Jessie Farrell, Canadian country music singer April 11 Danielle de Niese, Australian-American lyric soprano Chris Gaylor, drummer (The All-American Rejects) Sebastien Grainger (Death from Above 1979) April 13 – Tony Lundon (Liberty X) April 19 – Kate Hudson, American actress and singer April 20 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese-Canadian mezzo-soprano singer (Seraphim) April 21 – Anwar Robinson, American singer April 22 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician, singer, and songwriter (Silverchair) April 28 – Sofia Vitória, Portuguese singer April 29 Jo O'Meara, English singer and actress (S Club 7) Matt Tong, drummer (Bloc Party) May 3 Danny Foster, English group (Hear'Say) Lexy, South Korean singer and rapper Hell Rell, American rapper (The Diplomats) May 4 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, actor, film, and television producer, and author ('N Sync) May 9 Ara Mina, Filipino actress and singer Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer and musician best known for being the lead vocalist and studio bassist of the rock band Simple Plan. Matt Morris, American singer, producer, actor, and songwriter May 10 – Lee Hyori, South Korean singer (Fin.K.L) May 12 – Aaron Yoo, American actor May 13 – Mickey Madden, American bassist May 14 – Dan Auerbach, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (The Black Keys, Patrick Carney) May 16 – Lee Hee-jin, South Korean singer (Baby Vox) May 17 – Ayda Field, American actress (Married to Robbie Williams, Worked with Gary Barlow) May 19 – Shooter Jennings, American singer-songwriter and musician May 23 – Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey May 29 – Scribe, New Zealand hip-hop rapper and recording artist of Samoan descent June 5 – Pete Wentz, American musician, multi-instrumentalist, writer, mental health advocate, and songwriter (Fall Out Boy) June 7 – Julie Berthelsen, Danish pop singer June 8 – Derek Trucks, guitarist, songwriter June 12 – Robyn, Swedish singer, songwriter, and record producer June 17 – Young Maylay, American rapper, producer, and voice actor June 18 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress June 19 – Robby De Sá, South African musician, music producer, and instrumentalist June 20 – Charlotte Hatherley, Irish singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Ash) June 26 – Ryan Tedder, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (OneRepublic, Hilary Duff, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez) June 28 – Tim McCord, American bassist (Evanescence) June 29 – Abz Love, singer (5ive) July 4 – Dumas, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist July 5 – Shane Filan, Irish singer and songwriter (Westlife) July 6 – Matthew Barnson, American viola player and composer July 9 – Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress July 13 Ladyhawke, New Zealand born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Lee Jai-jin, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies) July 15 – Laura Benanti, American actress and singer July 16 – Ivan Tásler July 17 – Solé, American rapper July 19 – Michelle Heaton, English singer (Liberty X) July 23 – Michelle Williams, American singer and actress (Destiny's Child) July 25 – Amy Adams, singer July 26 – Tamyra Gray, singer July 28 Lee Min-woo, South Korean singer (Shinhwa) Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer August 7 Gangsta Boo, American rapper (d.2023) Kim Jae-duck, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies) Dominique Fidanza, Belgian-Italian singer (Lollipop) August 12 – Cheri Dennis, American R&B singer August 13 – Amiel Daemion, American-Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress August 15 – Jon Hopkins, an English musician and producer who writes and performs electronic music. H August 16 – Brian Ormond, Irish singer August 20 – Jamie Cullum, English jazz-pop singer-songwriter, pianist August 21 – Kelis, American singer-songwriter and chef August 23 – Ritchie Neville, singer (5ive) August 27 – Jon Siebels, guitarist (Eve 6) August 31 – Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer September 3 – Jason McCaslin, bass guitarist (Sum 41) September 4 – MC Mong, South Korean rapper September 6 – Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer September 8 – Slim Thug, American rapper September 8 – Pink, American singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, and activist September 10 – MayBee, South Korean singer September 16 Flo Rida, American rapper and singer Fanny, French singer September 17 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) September 18 – Clinton Sparks, American DJ and record producer September 21 Maija Kovaļevska, Latvian soprano opera singer Jericho Rosales, Filipino entertainer September 22 – Emilie Autumn, American violinist, singer, poet, mental health advocate, and songwriter September 24 – Julia Clarete, Filipina singer, actress, performer, television personality, and former host of Eat Bulaga! September 24 – Kim Jong-min, South Korean singer, dancer, and television personality (Koyote) September 27 Barbara Kanam, Congolese singer Nathan Foley, Australian singer-songwriter and television personality (Hi-5) September 30 – Indira Weis, German actress and singer (Bro'Sis) October 3 – Josh Klinghoffer, guitarist, (Red Hot Chili Peppers) October 9 – Alex Greenwald, vocals, rhythm guitar for Phantom Planet October 10 – Mýa, American recording artist, songwriter, and actress October 10 – Kangta, South Korean singer (H.O.T.) October 11 – Gabe Saporta, American musician (Midtown) October 12 – Jordan Pundik, lead vocals for New Found Glory October 13 – Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer October 15 Jaci Velasquez, Latin pop singer Yoav, singer-songwriter of Israeli-Romanian descent, raised in South Africa October 18 – Ne-Yo, American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, television host/judge, and actor (Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, World Of Dance) October 23 – Vanessa Petruo, German singer, songwriter and actress (No Angels) October 24 – Ben Gillies, Australian drummer (Silverchair) October 25 – Bat for Lashes, English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist November 2 – Skull, South Korean reggae singer November 7 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer November 9 – Nicolas Koeckert, German violinist November 10 – Chris Joannou, Australian musician, bass guitar for Silverchair November 21 – Kim Dong-wan, South Korean singer (Shinhwa) November 22 – Scott Robinson, singer (5ive) November 27 Hilary Hahn, American violinist Shin Hye-sung, South Korean singer and songwriter November 28 – Chamillionaire, American rapper November 28 – Daniel Henney, American actor November 28 – Dane Bowers, English singer and songwriter (Another Level) November 29 – The Game, American rapper November 30 Smitty, American rapper, songwriter and entertainer Dale Stewart, South African bass guitarist (Seether) December 3 – Daniel Bedingfield, English-New Zealand singer, songwriter, and record producer December 7 – Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, actress, and author. December 13 – Matthew Stiff, English opera singer (G4) December 14 – Sophie Monk, Australian singer, songwriter, actress, model, and radio personality December 15 Alex Solowitz, American actor, composer, singer, dancer, and producer (2gether) Adam Brody, American actor, writer, musician, and producer (Leighton Meester, Big Japan) Edele Lynch, Irish singer (B*Witched) Keavy Lynch, Irish singer (B*Witched) December 17 – 40 Cal., American rapper (The Diplomats) December 18 – Murphy Lee, American rapper December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor December 28 Zach Hill, American multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, (Death Grips, The I.L.Y's, Hella) Senna Gammour, German singer (Monrose) December 30 – Yelawolf, American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, and producer December 31 – Bob Bryar, American retired musician, drummer (My Chemical Romance) Unknown Ingrid Michaelson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and activist Ms. Jade, American rapper Deaths January 5 – Charles Mingus, jazz musician, 56Bob Macken Peter Fornatale Bill Ayres The Rock Music Source Book https://archive.org/details/rockmusicsourceb00mack registration 1 January 1980 Anchor Books 978-0-385-14139-0 631 January 13 Donny Hathaway, singer, 33 (injuries from fall) John Tobler 1992 NME Rock 'N' Roll Years 1st Reed International Books Ltd London 322 CN 5585 Marjorie Lawrence, operatic soprano, 71http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100013b.htm Lawrence, Marjorie Florence (1907–1979) Australian Dictionary of Biography Melbourne University Press Griffin Helga M. 14–15 10 Melbourne, Vic 1986 30 June 2009 January 31 – Olga Olgina, Polish opera singer and teacher, 74.Olgina Olga https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/;3950825.html Encyklopedia PWN pl 14 August 2025 February 2 – Sid Vicious, punk rocker, 21Medina David Lombardi Frank Punk rocker Sid Vicious dies of an overdose in 1979 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/punk-rocker-sid-vicious-dies-heroin-1979-article-1.2096835 New York Daily News nydailynews.com 6 May 2017 1 February 2015 March 4 – Mike Patto, rock singer, 36 (cancer) March 5 – Alan Crofoot, operatic tenor and host of Mr Piper, 49 (suicide)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RHJkAAAAIBAJ&pg=2764,3763147&dq=alan+crofoot+death&hl=en Alcohol, medication may have led to tenor's suicide March 7, 1979 The Calgary Herald B18 February 6, 2013 March 13 – Harrison Keller, US violinist and music teacher, 90Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Seventh Edition, Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984, page 1178 March 22 – Walter Legge, record producer, 72Walter Legge Alan Sanders Walter Legge: words and music https://books.google.com/books?id=FY4IAQAAMAAJ 21 May 1998 Duckworth 978-0-7156-2774-7 255 March 23 – Antonio Brosa, violinist, 84Stanley Sadie The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians https://books.google.com/books?id=l10NAQAAIAAJ 1980 Macmillan Publishers 978-0-333-23111-1 335 April 3 – Ernst Glaser, Norwegian violinist, conductor and music teacher, 75 April 10 – Nino Rota, composer, 67 (coronary thrombosis)F. Maurice Speed Speed Film Review: 1979–1980 https://books.google.com/books?id=jeia-Mi28JwC 1 November 1979 Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 978-0-8015-2632-9 168 April 16 – Maria Caniglia, operatic soprano, 73Lanfranco Rasponi The Last Prima Donnas Limelight Editions 1985 9780879100407 245 April 29 – Julia Perry, composer and conductor, 55 May 1 – Bronislav Gimpel, violinist, 68 May 9 – Zoltán Kelemen, operatic bass-baritone, 53 May 11 – Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician, 64 May 21 – Blue Mitchell, trumpeter, 49 May 26 - Stefano Ballarini, baritone, 76Stephan Ballarini in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014Stephan Ballarini in the Florida, U.S., Death Index, 1877-1998 June 5 – Jack Haley, actor, singer (Wizard of Oz) 80 June 21 – Angus MacLise, American drummer and songwriter (Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music), 41 (hypoglycemia and pulmonary tuberculosis)[artist p42603/biography yes Angus MacLise], AllMusic June 29 – Lowell George, singer, songwriter and guitarist, founder of Little Feat, 34 (heart attack) July 3 – Louis Durey, composer, 91 July 6 – Van McCoy, singer, 39 (heart attack) July 12 – Minnie Riperton, singer, 31 (breast cancer) July 14 – Pedro Flores, composer, 85 July 16 – Alfred Deller, countertenor, 67 August 19 – Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly singer, 46 (heart attack) August 25 – Stan Kenton, bandleader, 67 September 2 – Jacques Février, pianist, 79 September 6 – Guy Bolton, English librettist, 94 September 22 – Richard Nibley, violinist, 66 September 27 Gracie Fields, actress and singer, 81 Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist (Wings), 26 October 1 – Roy Harris, composer, 81 October 13 – Rebecca Helferich Clarke, viola player and composer, 93David Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers London Collins 1986 1164 978-0-00434-363-1 October 22 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer, conductor, and music teacher, 92Peter Lavezzoli The Dawn of Indian Music in the West London Continuum 2007 978-0-82642-819-6 126 October 27 – Germaine Lubin, operatic soprano, 89 November 11 – Dimitri Tiomkin, film composer and conductor, 85 November 13 – Freda Betti, French mezzo-soprano opera singer, 55 November 17 – John Glascock, rock bassist, 28 November 23 – Judee Sill, singer-songwriter, 35 November 30 – Joyce Grenfell, actress and singer-songwriter, 69 December 21 – Nansi Richards, harpist, 91Evans Nia Gwyn Jones, Nansi Richards ('Telynores Maldwyn ') (1888-1979), harpist s10-RICH-NAN-1888 National Library of Wales 1 August 2018 2016 December 30 – Richard Rodgers, composer and songwriter, 77 Awards Grammy Awards of 1979 1979 Country Music Association Awards Eurovision Song Contest 1979 Japan Music Awards 21st Japan Record Awards See also Record labels established in 1979 1979 in music (UK) References External links Category:20th century in music Category:Music by year