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Fleetwood Mac release the album Rumours, on Warner Brothers Records, in the USA.
Leon Redbone plays at The New Victoria Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz musician Joe Silmon comes to the end of playing his flute non-stop for 48 hours under water aboard the British submarine HMS Grampus at Gosport, UK. This feat earns him an entry in the Guinness Book Of World Records.
The Manhattan Transfer play the first of three nights at The New Victoria, London, England, UK, Europe.50s rocker Marty Wilde and guitar virtuoso Bert Weedon complete a UK tour at the New Theatre, Hull.
During a charity show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California, USA, an over-emotional young man comes out of the audience, clambers onstage and hugs Ray Charles round the neck. [Later, the story will be widely mis-reported, claiming that the young man had tried to strangle Ray with a rope].
Queen play at The Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
On their first world tour, 
The Clash, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Slits and Subway Sect play at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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When The Sex Pistols and The Slits play at The Roxy, Covent Garden, London, UK, members of heavy metal band Iron Maiden attend the show.
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Four years after it had been a hit in the USA, Deep Purple enter the UK singles chart with Smoke On The Water, which will peak at No21.
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Black Sabbath play at The Falconer Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe, supported by AC/DC.
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Radiators From Space release a new single, Television Screen, on Chiswick Records in the UK.
Sassafras play the first of two nights at Barbarella's, Birmingham, UK, supported by Eater.
Touring in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends, 10cc play at The City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK.
Joe Strummer of The Clash goes to see an all-night reggae show at Hammersmith Palais, London, England, UK, Europe, and is inspired to write the song White Man In Hammersmith Palais.
The Damned play at The Brunel Rooms, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Adverts and XTC.
Ian Watkins, singer of Lostprophets, is born in Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom.
The album Crime Of The Century by Supertramp, featuring Swindon-born vocalist Rick Davies is awarded a US Gold disc by the R.I.A.A.
Elvis Presley collapses while sitting on his toilet in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, after ingesting a cocktail of drugs including Morphine, Demerol, Chloropheniramine, Placidyl, Valium, Codeine, Ethinamate, Quaaludes and an unidentified barbiturate. He dies later in the day at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.
His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
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His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
Generation X play at The Brunel Rooms, Swindon. The band includes vocalist Billy Idol who will go on to much greater success as a solo perfomer.
The Boomtown Rats enter the UK Singles Chart with their debut single, Lookin' After No1., which will peak at No11 during a nine-week run on the chart.
Slade record a cover of bluesman Arthur Crudup's song My Baby Left Me at Advision Stduios, London, England, UK, Europe.R'n'b and jazz guitarist George Benson enters the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart entry with The Greatest Love Of All, which will peak at No24 during a seven-week run on the chart.
Touring in support of their fifth LP Deceptive Bends, 10cc play the second of two nights at Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, Australia, Oceania.
Heavy rock band Samson play their first-ever gig, supporting The Steve Gibbons Band at Leas Cliffe Hall, Folkestone, UK.St. Helens band
The Spitfire Boys, often touted as Liverpool's first punk band, release their debut single, British Refugee, on RKO Records. The
band includes guitarist Paul Rutherford, who will go on to greater fame as a member of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and drummer
Peter
Clark who will find success under the name of Budgie in
Siouxsie & The
Banshees.
A bomb scare delays the start of a concert by The Clash, in Club 700, Stora Hotellet, Oreboro, Sweden.
Bat Out Of Hell, the second studio album by Meat Loaf, is released in the USA. It will eventually sell over 43m copies worldwide.
Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, visits The Rolling Stones during their recording sessions for the album Some Girls in Paris, France, Europe. At the Ritz Hotel, Moon is arrested and jailed for rowdy behaviour, but is bailed by The Stones' lawyers the next morning. 
Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne quits Black Sabbath because of drink and drug problems, but will return within a few weeks.Weather Report play at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Touring in support of his album Bat Out Of Hell, Meat Loaf plays at My Father's Place, Old Roselyn, New York State, USA.
Blind horn-playing genius Rahsaan Roland Kirk dies aged 42 of a stroke, in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Talking Heads play the second of three nights at The Keystone, Berkeley, California, USA.Wes Hampton is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as 2nd Tenor vocalist in The Gaither Vocal Band.
The Runaways play the first of four nights at The Whisky A Go Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Feb |