Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).

* 1976 – Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

Horne has since been made the subject of two biographies, Norman Hackforth's Solo for Horne in 1976 and, 30 years later, Barry Johnston's more detailed Round Mr Horne.

* Hackforth, Norman: Solo for Horne: A Biography of Kenneth Horne ( Angus & Robertson 1976 ; hardback, ISBN 0-207-95650-2 ; Coronet Books paperback, ISBN 0-340-24274-4 )

* The Craft of Science Fiction: A Symposium on Writing Science Fiction and Science Fantasy ( 1976, with Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Hal Clement, A. E. van Vogt, Frank Herbert, Jerry Pournelle, Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, Norman Spinrad )

* Welcome to Paradise, 1976, produced by Larry Norman

In 1975 Norman recorded In Another Land, the third album in his trilogy, which was released in 1976 through his own Solid Rock label and distributed through Word Records, making it " the first of his albums to be released on a Christian label ".

In 1976 ABC Records bought Word Records, and they switched Norman to its Word subsidiary.

In 1976 Norman recorded songs for his proposed Red, White and Blues trilogy, a projected American anthology of three albums for the United States Bicentennial, that would focus on the roots of American music.

In 1999 Norman responded by arguing that when he completed the album in 1976, he was married happily and that several of the songs were written before he had met his wife.

By December 1976 Norman had signed a one-year agreement to allow four albums to be manufactured and distributed through Sonrise Manufacturing Co ,, which was owned by Bob Cotterell.

Former Louisiana State Senator Mike Cross was the mayor of Baker from 1976 – 1981, having been preceded and succeeded in the latter position by Norman E. " Pete " Heine.

In 1976, Norman turned pro as a tournament player, and that year earned his first victory at the West Lakes Classic at The Grange in Adelaide, South Australia.

* Norman Foster ( 1900 – 1976 ) director and composer

Norman Kaye played the role of a swagman in the 1976 bushranger film Mad Dog Morgan.

* Norman P. Gentieu, " Eastwood Lane ", Journal of Jazz Studies, Spring 1976, Vol.

* Dixon, Dr. Norman F. On the Psychology of Military Incompetence Jonathan Cape Ltd 1976 / Pimlico 1994 pp95 – 109

Nim Li Punit was discovered in 1976 with initial explorations conducted by Norman Hammond of the British Museum-Cambridge University.

* Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England 1770 – 1970: a historical study ( Oxford, Clarendon Press, ( 1976 ), ISBN 0-19-826435-6.

The Risch – Norman algorithm ( after A. C. Norman ), a faster but less powerful technique, was developed in 1976.

In 1976, ABC-TV offered Walker a contract to headline her own series, The Nancy Walker Show, which was produced by Norman Lear's production company.

With Custer in ' 76, Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1976.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

Easy listening icon Percy Faith, in one of his last recordings, recorded a disco version of his famous " Theme from A Summer Place " in 1976.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

It contains 35 of Young's songs recorded between 1966 and 1976, among them five tracks that had been unreleased up to that point.

It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist ( a live version of " Don't Cry No Tears " recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of " Pushed it Over The End " recorded in 1974 ).

" Secret Agent Man " had been recorded first in 1974 for Devo's first film and performed live as early as 1976.

* In 1976 The Kinks recorded the song " Father Christmas ".

Musician Joe Walsh recorded chats with Moon, finding it remarkable how witty and alert the inebriated drummer managed to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la Peter Cook, which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the real Keith Moon, or if there was one. Keith Moon showing off atop his drumkit Toronto, 21 October 1976

Murphy stayed on for two more albums, Lost in a Dream and This Time We Mean It, before Cronin returned to the fold in January 1976 and recorded R. E. O., which was released that same year.

The last major outbreak of the disease in humans occurred between 1974 and 1976, where an estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 cases were recorded.

* 1976: Jazz guitarist Pat Martino recorded an instrumental version of the song for We'll be Together Again

They recorded the album Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers ( 1976 ), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe.

* The Modern Lovers ( recorded September 1971 and March 1972, released 1976 )

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

That same year, the group recorded soundstage performances with country singer Emmylou Harris (" Evangeline ") and gospel-soul group The Staple Singers (" The Weight "); Scorsese combined these new performances, as well as interviews he had conducted with the group, with the 1976 concert footage.

In 1976, he recorded a 9-song album for Lou Adler's Ode Records which was unreleased in its entirety until February 2010, when it was made available as a legal download ( 4 tracks from these sessions had been released on a 1990 Rocky Horror box set ).

1976 saw the first recorded outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a highly lethal virally transmitted disease.

Nicks originally wrote " Secret Love " in 1976 and recorded a demo of it for Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album, Rumours.

As co-leader of the Dicey Ross Band with harmonica player Bill Dicey, Ross recorded with Big Joe Turner in 1976 for Spivey Records, a Brooklyn label owned by Victoria Spivey and Lenny Kunstadt.

During the period of Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, Piazzolla lived in Italy, but returned many times to Argentina, recorded there, and on at least one occasion had lunch with the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.

" Bonzo's Montreux " by Led Zeppelin is named after the city where the drums session of John Bonham was recorded in 1976.

* In 1976 he recorded a promotional flexi-disc for Heinz called " The Noodle Doodle Man ".

Stella Parton, Dolly's sister, recorded " Ode to Olivia " and Newton-John recorded her 1976 album, Don't Stop Believin ', in Nashville.