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A riot ensues when punk band Teenage Head play at The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The occasion is preserved for posterity in the film The Last Pogo, considered one of the era's defining moments.
Ian Dury And The Blockheads release what will become their first UK No1 single, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. It will also be a first for their label, Stiff Records.
Former Staff Sgt Barry Sadler, best known for his militaristic right wing 1966 hit, The Ballad of the Green Berets, shoots and kills country music singer and songwriter Lee Emerson Bellamy, in the parking lot of a girlfriend's apartment in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sadler will hire a top criminal defense attorney, avoid trial, plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, and serve less than a month in the county workhouse after a plea bargain.Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band play at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
