), The Simon & Schuster Book of the Opera: a Complete Reference Guide — 1597 to the Present, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977 ISBN 0-671-24886-3

He is a close friend of SNL producer Lorne Michaels, who produced the 1977 TV show The Paul Simon Special, as well as the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park four years later.

Another album recorded in 1974 that was rejected by Word Records was Streams of White Light Into Darkened Corners, a documentary album that took " a satirical look at the early 1970s ' religious pop music ' trend from 1970 to 1974 ", written by celebrities who had " jumped on the ` 70s spiritual bandwagon ", and featured Norman singing covers of religious songs by Norman Greenbaum, Paul Simon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Randy Newman, Leon Russell, Jackson Browne, and the Rolling Stones, and was not released until 1977 by AB Records.

Original Parliaments members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas departed in 1977 after becoming disillusioned with the influx of new members, and later recorded an album under the name Funkadelic.

Original Parliaments members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas, who had been with Clinton since the barbershop days in the late 1950s, felt marginalized by the continuous influx of new members and departed acrimoniously in 1977.

The album was recorded by former Funkadelic members and original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas, who had left P-Funk in 1977 after disagreements with George Clinton's management practices.

In June 1977 at the height of P-Funk's popularity, Haskins ( along with other original Parliaments Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas ) left the ensemble over financial and management disputes with Clinton.

* Simon Fraser University ( SFU ), 1977 to 1992, Canada

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.

Also in 1977, Simon co-produced Libby Titus's album Libby Titus and sang backup on two songs: " Can This Be Our Love Affair?

Simon and Taylor had two children, Sarah " Sally " Maria Taylor ( born January 7, 1974 ) and Benjamin " Ben " Simon Taylor ( born January 22, 1977 ), both of whom are musicians and political activists.

* Simon, pseudonymic writer of the 1977 ' Simon Necronomicon ', or the ' real Necronomicon '

In 1977, Simon received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Treasury Department's highest honor.

* Roger Simon, Stuart Hall, Gramsci's Political Thought: An Introduction, Lawrence and Wishart, 1977, ISBN 0-85315-738-3

* Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat ( born 1977 ), Chief of Clan Fraser

President Nixon named William E. Simon as " Energy Czar ", and in 1977, a cabinet-level Department of Energy was created, leading to the creation of the United States ' Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Fisher dated musician Paul Simon from 1977 until 1983, then was married to him from August 1983 to July 1984, and they dated again for a time after their divorce.

* McCullough, David, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 Simon and Schuster, 1977.

In 1980, dissatisfied with the lack of creative control at Grosset & Dunlap and the lack of publicity for the Hardy Boys ' 50th anniversary in 1977, Harriet Adams switched publishers for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, as well as other series, to Simon and Schuster.

The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre ( now the Neil Simon Theatre ).

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

This young foundation, along with the departures of the unhappy Jackson and Holtzman, would create the basis for 1977.

Kaye was part-owner of baseball's Seattle Mariners along with his partner Lester Smith from 1977 to 1981.

‘ free constructions ’, Tauli 1977 ), along with other sources of lexical enrichment such as derivations, compositions and loanwords ( often from Finnish ; cf.

In the south, military exchanges between Israel and the PLO led Israel to support Saad Haddad's South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) in an effort to establish a security belt along Israel's northern border, an effort which intensified in 1977 with the election of new Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin.

Damadian along with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith, subsequently went on to perform the first MRI body scan of a human being on July 3, 1977.

MLB would not return to Seattle until 1977 when the Mariners entered the AL, along with the Toronto Blue Jays.

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.

* 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

Under the constitution adopted in 1936 and modified along the way until October 1977, the political foundation of the Soviet Union was formed by the Soviets ( Councils ) of People's Deputies.

However, this changed when the Soviet Union, Somalia's former ally and one of the world's two superpowers, along with Cuba opted to throw their support behind the newly-Communist Derg of Ethiopia in the Ogaden War of 1977 – 78.

On 23 March 1977, in a vote of confidence against the minority Labour government, Powell, along with a few other Ulster Unionists, abstained.

In 1996, the Santa Cruz Operation finally authorised the release of the twenty-year-old 6th Edition source code ( along with the source code of other versions of " Ancient UNIX "), and the full code plus the 1977 version of the commentary was published by Peer-To-Peer Communications ( ISBN 1-57398-013-7 ).

Open Systems Interconnection ( OSI ) is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977 by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), along with the ITU-T.

Lockheed finished paying off the $ 1. 4 billion loan in 1977, along with about $ 112. 22 million in loan guarantee fees.

The island ( along with its surrounding islets ) became a separate insular council ( with the same territory as the municipality of the same name ) after 1977 ; before that, it was administered in the former insular council of Ibiza and Formentera ( covering the whole group of the Pitiusic Islands ), but in a separate comarca ( which already covered the current municipality of Formentera ).

The EEZ along the mainland makes up 878 575 km², the Jan Mayen EEZ makes up 293 049 km², and since 1977 Norway has claimed and upheld an economic zone around Svalbard of 803 993 km².

In 1977, BAC was nationalised along with Scottish Aviation and Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace ( BAe ).

This offseason also marked the return of the 1977 – 1997 76ers logo, along with a redesigned court and new uniforms updating the 1982 – 83 jerseys.

On 22 December 1977, the band split up, Clarke, Griffiths and Wylie formed The Nova Mob ( along Julian Cope ), and Paul Rutherford formed The Opium Eaters, while Littler moved to London in January 1978, where joined The Photons, alongside Steve Strange ( later Visage ).

From about 1977, aircraft simulators for Commercial Air Transport ( CAT ) aircraft were designed with ancillaries such as Instructor Operating Stations ( IOS ), computers, etc., being placed on the motion platform along with the replica cockpit, rather than being located off the motion platform.

On 23 April 1977, Idle made another appearance on Saturday Night Live, bringing along Neil Innes as a musical guest.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

Erhard, along with John Denver, Robert W. Fuller, and others, founded The Hunger Project in 1977.

Several destructive fires affected Santa Barbara during this time: the 1964 Coyote Fire, which burned of backcountry along with 106 homes ; the smaller, but quickly moving, Sycamore Fire in 1977, which burned 200 homes ; the disastrous 1990 Painted Cave Fire, which incinerated over 500 homes in only several hours, during an intense Sundowner wind event ; the November 2008 Tea Fire, which destroyed 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and Montecito ; and the 2009 Jesusita Fire that burned and destroyed 160 homes above the San Roque region of Santa Barbara.