Pedro Navaja () is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 album Siembra, about a criminal of the same name.

The Colón and Blades album Siembra ( 1978 ) became the best-selling salsa record in history.

* Siembra ( 1978 )-Rubén Blades & Willie Colón

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, " Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called The Dead Kennedys, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

In the unclassified summary of their findings, published in 1978, the Committee wrote:

Thomas Turner wrote in the late 1990s that .. ' ajor acts of violence, such as the killings that followed the ' Kasongo uprising ' in Bandundu Region in 1978, the killings of diamond miners in Kasai-Oriental Region in 1979, and, more recently, the massacre of students in Lubumbashi in 1990, continued to intimidate the population.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Jomo Kenyatta ( c. 1894 – 1978 ), who became Kenya's first prime minister in 1963, wrote in 1930:

In 1978 he wrote to The Times that he had ' not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende.

* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.

Ratebzad wrote the famous New Kabul Times editorial ( May 28, 1978 ) which declared: " Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ...

John Lahr wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title * Orton himself had considered using, in 1978.

In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote MUD, Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called Milieu using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.

Susan Haak ( 1978 ) wrote, " A set of axioms is sometimes said to give an implicit definition of its primitive terms.

On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, in which he related that he had been influenced by Joyce's words: " The allusion to three quarks seemed perfect.

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

Prinze's mother wrote a book about her son, The Freddie Prinze Story, which was published in 1978.

Collins wrote the 1978 death of Moon Maid, and removed other Gould creations of the 1960s and 1970s ( including Groovy Grove, who was gravely wounded in the line of duty and later died in the hospital ; Lizz married him before his death ).

In jazz, Ornette Coleman and Chick Corea wrote different compositions, both incidentally titled Humpty Dumpty ( in Corea's case, however, it is a part of a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll, called " The Mad Hatter " ( 1978 )).

* In 1972, Swedish composer Thorstein Bergman wrote " Om du någonsin kommer fram till Samarkand " (" If you ever reach Samarkand ") made notable by Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in 1978.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

Fischer also wrote " The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser ", published in 1978.

A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila ( who wrote " I Married a Best-Seller " published in 1978 ).

The US Air Force Historical Division wrote a report in response to the international concern about the bombing, which was classified until December 1978.

* Big Dipper ( Elton John song ), a 1978 song by Elton John

" Le Freak " was a popular 1978 single that is regarded as an iconic song of the genre.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

Boney M had a number one hit in the UK with a similar song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, which was not based on this one, although using the same text from Psalm 137.

However, in late 1978, with the release of her album Love Tracks, she climbed the pop charts again because of her song " I Will Survive ".

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

* " Madrigal " ( Yes song ), a 1978 song by British progressive rock band Yes, from the album Tormato

*" Madness " ( Elton John song ), 1978

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

* Psi Power, a 1978 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind

This cocktail has been famous in Puerto Rico since 1978, and it became more widely known after Rupert Holmes released his song " Escape ", commonly known as " The Piña Colada Song ".

* In 1978, Peter Hammill on his album The future Now in the song " A motor bike in Afrika " was the first to mention Biko ( after his death ) in England.

* Tom Paxton released the song " The Death of Stephen Biko " on his 1978 album Heroes.

* Tapper Zukie released the song " Tribute To Steve Biko " on his 1978 album Peace In The Ghetto on the Frontline Records label.

* 1978: Frankie Laine recorded the song for his British album Life is Beautiful.

More is the focus of the Al Stewart song " A Man For All Seasons " from the 1978 album Time Passages, and of the Far song " Sir ", featured on the limited editions and 2008 re-release of their 1994 album Quick.

" The album Blue Valentine ( 1978 ) displayed Waits's biggest musical departure to date, with much more focus on electric guitar and keyboards than on previous albums and hardly any strings ( with the exception of album-opener " Somewhere " — a cover of Leonard Bernstein's song from West Side Story — and " Kentucky Avenue ") for a darker, more blues-oriented sound.

* The Misfits song " We Are 138 ", a B-side of their 1978 single Bullet, is thought to be based on the movie.

** Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song " A-Ba-Ni-Bi ".