* George Kollias ( 1977 -), drummer for US technical death metal band Nile.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

They played the club and bar circuit, first in Groningen, In 1977 the band released their first album, Street.

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

In February 1977, the first album by a British punk band appeared: Damned Damned Damned ( by the Damned ) reached number thirty-six on the UK chart.

In February 1977, EMI released The Saints ' debut album, ( I'm ) Stranded, which the band recorded in two days.

1977 also saw the debut album from Hamburg's Big Balls and the Great White Idiot, arguably West Germany's first punk band.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( YMO ) in 1978.

From 1975 to 1977, Skyhooks were — alongside Sherbet — the most commercially successful group in Australia, but over the next few years, Skyhooks rapidly faded from the public eye with the departure of key members, and in 1980 the band announced its break-up in controversial circumstances.

After Steve Hackett left the group in 1977, they became a crossover, arena rock band.

With albums such as Wish You Were Here ( 1975 ), an ode to former band member Syd Barrett and screed against the music business and Animals ( 1977 ), a concept album based on Animal Farm by George Orwell, they were firmly in the realm of symphonic prog.

This band recorded the album Rock ' N ' Roll with the Modern Lovers ( 1977 ) and toured until Keranen left to go to college and was replaced by Asa Brebner, who played on the albums Modern Lovers Live ( 1978 ) and Back in Your Life ( 1979 ).

In March 1977, they added Jerry Harrison ( guitar, keyboards, vocals ), formerly of Jonathan Richman's band The Modern Lovers.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

The Stranglers were the only foreign band to take part in a landmark scene focussed around S-KEN Studio in Roppongi, and The Loft venues in Shinjuku and Shimokitazawa from 1977 to 1979.

On 4 November 2007, the band ( with Black ) played a sell-out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977.

Garth appeared on the band ’ s first Radio 1 Peel Session, in September 1977, but due to his alcoholism he was quickly replaced with Steve Garvey, joining Dirty Looks in New York.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

The Germs are an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1977 to 1980.

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.

An early scanned display with raster computer graphics was invented in the late 1960s by A. Michael Noll at Bell Labs, but its patent application filed February 5, 1970 was abandoned at the Supreme Court in 1977 over the issue of the patentability of computer software.

Pavel filed a patent for his Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

Thus, although the Naskapis had never filed a formal statement of claim or similar document, except for a draft history prepared by the late Dr Alan Cooke, the parties to the JBNQA accepted the legitimacy of their claims, and they entered into an agreement-in-principle with the Naskapis in the Spring of 1977 to negotiate an agreement that would have the same principal features as the JBNQA.

In 1977, the NAACP filed separate suits against McIntosh County and the City of Darien, alleging improper districting for county and city commission seats.

In October 1977, Kris filed for divorce and asked for alimony, custody of their four children, and a portion of community property.

* " Distributed data processing system ", filed June 20, 1977, issued March 20, 1979.

By January 4, 1977, disaster victims filed over 4, 800 claims totalling $ 194 million.

A. Spaulding founded the Ground Saucer Watch, which later became famous when, in 1977, the group filed a suit under the Freedom of Information Act against the CIA.

Her parents, who married in 1977, filed for divorce in October 2008.

The road filed for bankruptcy for the third time on December 19, 1977.

Court documents filed in the divorce proceedings indicated that between March 1977 and June 1979 Pazder disappeared with Smith ( co-author of Michelle Remembers ) for lengthy periods of time.

In July 1977, Universal Studios filed a lawsuit against Cinema Shares, claiming that the title was too similar to their TV productions, The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off The Bionic Woman.

A trademark registration was filed on Monday, October 17, 1977.

The term " palimony " is not a legal or historical term, but rather a colloquial portmanteau of the words pal and alimony coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson coined in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin.

Frustrated with his lack of progress, and learning that it was important to protect his idea, Pavel finally filed a patent for the Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

However, In March 1977, Sara Dylan filed for divorce.

In February 1977, Computervision ( CV ) filed suit in federal court over Calma's hiring of a group of 5 employees from CV in San Diego.

Patapsco Designs was founded in 1977 and is based in Frederick, Maryland and in November 2004 was acquired by American Computer Development Inc. Patapsco Designs, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in joint administration with Circuit City Stores, Inc. in November 2008.

On December 28, 1977 the Liuzzo family, filed a lawsuit against the FBI, charging that Rowe, as an employee of the FBI, had failed to prevent Liuzzo's death and had in effect conspired in the murder.

In 1977, Trinity Baptist Church filed for bankruptcy.

It was originally published by Playboy ( debuting with the September / October 1977 issue ), then in 1987 was acquired by PSC Limited Partnership for 3 years and then was briefly out of business in 1990 and 1991 after the PSC owners filed for bankruptcy.

In September 1977 he filed probably his most famous news reports, about the story of Victor, a giraffe at Marwell Zoological Park.

The exceptional success of Roots was marred, however, by charges of plagiarism in separate lawsuits, each filed against Haley in the spring of 1977, by Harold Courlander and Margaret Walker Alexander.