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On their Destiny Tour, The
Jacksons including Michael
Jackson, play the first of three nights in Madrid, Spain.
Teenage schoolgirl Brenda Spencer shoots dead eleven of her schoolmates at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, USA. Asked why, she tells police "I don't like Mondays." Six months later, her statement will be used as the title of a Boomtown Rats' UK No1 single based on the horrific events of this day.
Elvis Costello plays at Hammersmith Palais, London, supported by Richard Hell & The Voidoids and John Cooper Clarke.
Zenon de Fleur Herowski, guitarist with UK garage/pub rock/r'n'b band The Count Bishops dies of a heart attack following a car crash, aged 28, in London.
Mojo Buford records St. James Infirmary, I Need You So Bad, I'm So Glad and other tracks for the LP Mojo Buford's Chicago Blues Summit at Curtom Studios, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Folk guitarist and singer Gordon Giltrap plays at Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, UK. The show is recorded and will be released as the LP Live At Oxford.
Eric Clapton marries Pattie Boyd, ex-wife of George Harrison, at the Apostolic Assembly of Faith in Christ Jesus Church, Tucson, Arizona, USA. Guests at the wedding include three of The Beatles - Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Boyd is often considered to be the greatest muse in rock'n'roll history. She provided the inspiration for at least six songs - Layla, Wonderful Tonight and Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad? by Clapton and Something, I Need You and Think For Yourself by George Harrison.
Dire Straits play the second of two nights at The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Barooga Bandit.
Kate Bush begins her first (and last) live tour, The Tour Of Life, with a low-key preview show at The Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset, England, UK, Europe. After the show, her lighting director Billy Duffield is accidentally killed when he falls from the lighting rig. The incident will inspire Bush to write her song Blow Away (For Bill).
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Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, Boomtown Rats, Aerosmith and others play in The California Music Festival, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California, USA. Van Halen, who arrive in a fleet of sixteen white limousines, have invited over 300 'personal guests' to the show. A chimpanzee dressed as David Lee Roth and two diminutive bodyguards greet the band's guests at the gate.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play the first of two nights Boulder. Colorado, USA, supported by Robert Fleischman.
An Iron Maiden demo track, Prowler, tops the Sounds/Soundhouse chart in the UK and remains at the top for three months.
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The Tourists, who will one day evolve into Eurythmics, release their debut single, Blind Among The Flowers, in the UK.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, working on songs including Gotta Serve Somebody, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
Supertramp, led by
Swindon-born
Rick Davies, reach No1 in the American albums chart with
Breakfast In America, for the first of six weeks.
Iron Maiden play at The Bandwagon/Heavy Metal Sounhouse, Kingsbury, North London, UK.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at Carter Stadium, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Also on the bill are Poco, The Outlaws and Boston.
Bruce Springsteen's lighting director, Mark Brickman, is married in Los Angeles, California, USA. At the reception in the Whiskey A Go Go, Springsteen and The E-Street Band play live, with guest spots including Rickie Lee Jones and Boz Scaggs.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for an audience of 62,000.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Jaap Edenhal, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe.
The
Knack release the hit single My Sharona, in the USA. On the same day, The Charlie Daniels Band release the single The Devil Went Down To
Georgia, in the USA.
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lowell George, formerly of Little Feat, dies aged 34 in the Twin Bridges Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Virgina, USA, from a heart attack brought on by drugs and obesity.
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On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play at The Music Hall, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
The Reverend Richard Penniman, aka Little Richard, warns the congregation at a revivalist meeting in North Richmond, California, about the evils of rock music.
The first day of the Reading Rock 79 festival in the UK features The Police, The Tourists, Motorhead, Wilko Johnson, The Cure, Doll By Doll, Punishment of Luxury and The Jags.
Rickie Lee Jones plays at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, UK. Her current boyfriend, Tom Waits is accompanying her on the tour.
On their first North American tour, Abba play at Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Linda Ronstadt begins recording her tenth album, Mad Love at Record One studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bob Marley plays the first of two nights at The Uptown Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Duran Duran, Vision Collision and The Detectives play at The Red Star Club, Essex Street, Birmingham, England, UK.
Chuck Berry is released from Lompoc Prison, California, USA, after serving time for tax evasion.
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA, for the first of two weeks.
Iron Maiden complete the recording of a demo of Running Free at Wessex Studios, London, UK.
Udyan Sagar is born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia. He will find success as electronic music producer Nucleya.
Talking Heads play the second of two nights at the Electric Ballroom, Camden, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark (OMD) and U2.
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