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News from 1978

Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing

Big Star - Third and Sister Lovers

Blondie - Parallel Lines

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Chic - C'est Chic

Chicago - Hot Streets

Devo - Q- Are We Not Men? A- We Are Devo

Dire Straits -

Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

Elton John - A Single Man

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model

Etta James - Deep In The Night

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

Ian Dury & Blockheads - New Boots & Panties

Joe Ely - Honky Tonk Masquerade

John Prine - Bruised Orange

Kraftwerk - Man-Machine

Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus (live)

Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear

Neil Young, Crazy Horse - Comes a Time

Patti Smith Group - Easter

Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town

Prince - For You

Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food

The Band - The Last Waltz (Live)

The Cars

Van Halen - Van Halen

An Unmarried Woman

National Lampoon's Animal House

The Buddy Holly Story

California Suite

Capricorn One

The Cat from Outer Space

Coma

Coming Home

Convoy

Days of Heaven

Every Which Way But Loose

Foul Play

Goin' South

Halloween

Heaven Can Wait

Hooper

Interiors

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jaws 2

The Last Waltz

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Midnight Express

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Superman - The Movie

The Wiz

The birth of the first "test-tube" baby, the murder-suicides of the followers of Jim Jones, and the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty were the major stories of 1978.

Other Major Stories

February 19: In a tragic mix-up, Cypriot National Guard members fired on and killed 15 Egyptian commandos trying to rescue those aboard a Cypriot airliner held hostage by Palestinian terrorists.

March 17: In the worst oil spill on record, Amoco's Cadiz runs aground near Brest, France.

April 6: President Carter signs a bill raising the mandatory retirement age to 70.

May 9: Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who had been kidnapped on March 16, is found dead in Rome.

June 6: Proposition 13 passes in California ensuring new residents will pay more than their fair share of property taxes.

June 16: President Carter and Panamanian President Torrijos formally sign an agreement which will cede control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanias.

July 25: Louise Brown, the first "test-tube" baby, is born in Britain.

September 25: A PSA 727 collides with a Cessna and crashes in San Diego. Seven people on the ground and all 137 aboard both plains are killed.

November 18: The murder-suicides of 912 followers of religious leader Jim Jones in Guyana shocks the world.

December 15: Cleveland becomes the first U.S. city since the depression to default.

December 28: A United Airlines DC-9 runs out of gas and crashes six miles short of the runway in Portland, Oregon. Ten of 181 aboard are killed.