Other chart hits by White included " Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up " (# 2 R & B, # 7 Pop in 1973 ), " Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe " (# 1 Pop and R & B in 1974 ), " You're the First, the Last, My Everything " (# 1 R & B, # 2 Pop in 1974 ), " What Am I Gonna Do with You " (# 1 R & B, # 8 Pop in 1975 ), " Let the Music Play " (# 4 R & B in 1976 ), " It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me " (# 1 R & B, # 4 Pop in 1977 ) and " Your Sweetness is My Weakness " (# 2 R & B in 1978 ).

Almost all of ABBA's promotional films were directed and shot by Hallström, with the only ( seven total ) exceptions being " When I Kissed the Teacher " ( 1977 ); " Chiquitita " ( 1979 ), which was made by the BBC ; " I Have a Dream " ( 1979 ); " On and On and On " ( 1980 ); " Lay All Your Love on Me " ( 1981 ); " The Day Before You Came ( 1982 )" and " Under Attack " ( 1982 ), which were both directed by Kjell Sundvall and Kjell-Åke Andersson.

The song heavily musically samples Barry White's 1977 song " It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me " and also contains a sample of " Can I Kick It?

On November 13, 1977, Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to declining health.

On June 27, 1977, a third vote took place.

On 1 October 1977, Naval Support Facility, Diego Garcia, was established as the senior US Navy command on the island.

On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show This Is Your Life.

On August 15, 1977 the " Wow!

On June 28, 1977, in the Philadelphia Federal District Court, a lawsuit was filed by the Norlin Corporation, the parent company of Gibson Guitars against Elger / Hoshino U. S. A .' s use of the Gibson headstock design and logo.

On January 10, 1977, John Bardeen was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford.

On 10 August 1977, after making 320 appearances and scoring 167 goals for Celtic, Dalglish was signed by Liverpool manager Bob Paisley for a British transfer fee record of £ 440, 000.

On 23 June 1977, Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage and drummed with John Bonham for encores in a show at the L. A. Forum arena ( recorded on Led Zeppelin bootlegs, For Badgeholders Only / Sgt.

On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme.

On 4 January 1977, Montoneros guerrillas shot and killed Private Guillermo Félix Dimitri of the 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade on a drive-by shooting while he was on roadblock duty outside the Chrysler factory in the San Justo suburb of Buenos Aires.

On 15 February 1977, army corporal Osvaldo Ramón Ríos was killed after his patrol came under fire from a group of Montoneros that had barricaded themselves inside a house in the Ezpeleta suburb of Buenos Aires.

On 23 May 1977, the leftist guerrillas in Buenos Aires killed two policemen and a retired inspector as he entered his home.

On 5 September 1977 five Montoneros confessed to the killing of the child, four of them were later murdered while held in a prison camp in La Plata.

On 14 August 1977 Susana Leonor Siver and her partner Marcelo Carlos Reinhold, both Montoneros fighters, were kidnapped from Reinold's mother home along with a friend by a fifteen-strong naval intelligence team and taken to the ESMA naval detention camp.

On August 17, 1977, the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole.

Press coverage of punk misbehavior grew intense: On January 4, 1977, the Evening News of London ran a front-page story on how the Sex Pistols " vomited and spat their way to an Amsterdam flight ".

On September 7, 1977, the Torrijos-Carter Treaties were signed by the Panamanian head of state and U. S. President Jimmy Carter for the complete transfer of the Canal and the fourteen US army bases from the US to Panama by 1999.

On December 7, 1977, Falk married actress Shera Danese, who guest-starred on the Columbo series on numerous occasions.

On March 18, 1977 President Ngouabi was assassinated.

On 30 July 1977, Jürgen Ponto, the head of Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a botched kidnapping.

On 5 September 1977, Schleyer's convoy was stopped by the kidnappers reversing a car into the path of Schleyer's vehicle, causing the Mercedes he was being driven in to crash.

On 18 October 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer was shot to death by his captors en route to Mulhouse, France.

On August 19, 1977, an earthquake measuring 7. 0 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 316 people, including islands off the West coast.

On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs ' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as " Ring Ring " ( 1973 ), " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Honey, Honey " ( 1974 ), " I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do " ( 1975 ), " Mamma Mia " ( 1975 ), " S. O. S " ( 1975 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 ), " Knowing Me, Knowing You " ( 1977 ), and " The Name of the Game " ( 1977 ).

** The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 )

Battling severe cocaine addiction, Hughes embarked on a solo career following his departure from the group releasing his first solo record on 1977 called Play Me Out.

* Play Me Out ( 1977 )

* Tell Me Now and Again ( 1977 )

In the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, as ' Q ' was delivering the underwater Lotus, Major Anya Anasova / Agent XXX ( Barbara Bach ) greets ' Q ' as " Major Boothroyd ".

* The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 )

* Lies My Parents Told Me 1st flashback: In 1977 New York, Spike fights Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood while her young son Robin watches from a hiding place.

The world's most famous film stage, the 007 Stage, was originally built for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and featured a massive water tank, one of the largest in Europe.

* The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 )

* 1977 – " Highways of the Sun " / " Tell Me "

The song " You're Gonna Miss Me " was covered by influential Australian group Radio Birdman on their 1977 album Radios Appear.

In 1977, Diamond released I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight, including " You Don't Bring Me Flowers ", for which he composed the music and collaborated with Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman on lyrics.

His autobiography, Dear Me ( 1977 ), was well received and saw him describe his life ( ostensibly his childhood ) while being interrogated by his own ego, with forays into philosophy, theatre, fame, and self-realization.

* Loves Me, Loves Me Not ( 1977 ) ( TV series ) – Jane Benson

In 1977, Simon had a surprise international hit with the million-selling gold single " Nobody Does It Better ", the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

The studio tracks were " Such A Good Girl " and " Take Me I'm Yours ", which the record claims were recorded in 1976 and 1977, respectively.

Late in 1977, TK Records announced that sales of the 12 ” version of " Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me " had reached the million dollar mark making it the first gold 12 ” single in history.

A black 1976 model Taunus was driven by henchman chasing James Bond ( Roger Moore )-in his Lotus Esprit-in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me on the roads of Sardinia.

The theme " Stalking ", for the teaser sequence of From Russia With Love, was covered by colleague Marvin Hamlisch for The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ).