The reformed Battered Wives consisted of Toby Swann ( guitar and vocals ), Larry " Jasper " Klassen ( bass and vocals ), John Gibb ( guitar ) and Cleave Anderson ( drums ), and released their first eponymous album in 1978.

However a director of that leisure company was Robert Gibb, who cared for the park greatly and decided to buy the park from the company in 1978, shortly before Scotia Leisure collapsed due to an embezzlement scandal that also left Pentland Hick broke.

RSO Records also released the soundtrack to the film Grease in 1978, which had Barry Gibb producing and Peter Frampton playing lead guitar on the title track.

In the summer of 1978, the Gibb brothers announced their latest project at a news conference at the United Nations in New York City.

The single " Too Much Heaven " was released in the late autumn of 1978 ( it had originally been intended for use in the John Travolta movie Moment By Moment, but was pulled before the film's release reportedly because Barry Gibb thought the movie was awful when he was shown a rough cut.

" Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You " from 1978 was Teri DeSario's first hit single, written by the Bee Gees ' lead vocalist / songwriter Barry Gibb, from her first album Pleasure Train, also released in 1978.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

In January 1978 they toured New Zealand and performed at the Nambassa festival.

Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times.

Taking off with the public as a legitimate musical act, they performed live gigs and released the hit album Briefcase Full of Blues in 1978, and were further popularized in a 1980 film.

One of the longer-lived of these was a band called The Craze, which performed a few times around Northampton in 1978.

* Bruce Springsteen has performed at the Garden 29 times in his career, beginning in 1978 with the Darkness Tour.

In 1978 the two performed a stage version of the show at the London Palladium ; lasting for three months, it followed the same format as the show, with old sketches and some new material, supported by variety acts.

* ISEE-3 – 12 August 1978 – Solar wind investigations ; later redesignated International Cometary Explorer and performed Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Comet Halley flybys – First comet flyby

* Alan Cantwell, in self-published books entitled AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, says that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by U. S. Government scientists and that it was introduced into the population through Hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978 – 1981 in major U. S. cities.

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

The pair performed Norman's 1978 song " Watch What You're Doing.

* Donna Vivino ( born 1978 ), stage and screen actress, who has performed the starring role of Elphaba in the Broadway National Tour production of Wicked.

* Chris Opperman ( born 1978 ), modern composer who performed on Steve Vai's Grammy-nominated composition " Lotus Feet " grew up in Clifton and attended CHS.

In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg.

* The song is performed by The Bee Gees and George Burns in the 1978 film Sgt.

* The World's Greatest Lover ( 1978 ) song " Ain't It Kinda Wonderful " performed

Born and raised in Hermosa Beach, California, he formed Black Flag at the age of 21 with guitarist Greg Ginn and performed on the band's 1978 debut EP Nervous Breakdown.

He was also a guest star on a memorable episode of The Muppet Show in 1978, in which he performed his signature song " Day-O " on television for the first time.

An enormously successful series, the last episode in 1978 was performed in front of the Queen.

Xenakis frequently gave lectures ( for instance, from 1975 to 1978 he was Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, giving free public lectures ), taught composition ( notable students include Pascal Dusapin, Henning Lohner, and Miguel Ángel Coria ), and his works were performed at numerous festivals worldwide, including, for instance, the Shiraz Arts Festival in Iran.

In France in the early 70s, Jean-Jacques Birgé performed on a toy-piano, besides synthesizers, and recorded it in " Le réveil " on his Défense de album in 1975, as Pascal Comelade built all his work on toy instruments, having played all kinds of toy pianos himself since 1978.

Modern, academically sound archaeological excavations were performed from 1978 through the 1990s by University of Chicago anthropologist Alan Kolata and his Bolivian counterpart, Oswaldo Rivera.

The live tracks were a faux live cover of The Beatles ' " Day Tripper ", and " Can't Hold On ", a bluesy track performed at Budokan concerts in 1978.

Peter Ustinov played Poirot a total of six times, starting with Death on the Nile ( 1978 ).

; Attacks on internationally protected persons: Section 1 ( 1 )( a ) of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 ( c. 17 ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm or causing injury on " protected persons " ( including Heads of State ).

Applesoft II, which was made available on cassette and disk and in the ROM of the Apple II Plus and subsequent models, was released in 1978.

This concept is based in part on the pioneering work by Garry Thomson CBE, and his book the Museum Environment, first published in 1978.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

CBBS went online on February 16, 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.

Building on the recognition of the importance of information transmission, accumulation and processing in biological systems, in 1978 Paulien Hogeweg, coined the term " Bioinformatics " to refer to the study of information processes in biotic systems.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

" In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, " I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on ; that keeps me honest.

Restrictions on homebrewing were lifted in the UK in 1963, Australia followed suit in 1972, and the USA in 1978, though individual states were allowed to pass their own laws limiting production.

( 1978 ) on North American grasslands.

* The first film based on the Triangle was The Bermuda Triangle in 1978.

In 1978 An Australian Prayer Book was produced which sought to adhere to this principle, so that where the Liturgical Committee could not agree on a formulation, the words or expressions of the BCP were to be used.

Two months later, on 1 March 1978, Chaplin's coffin was dug up and stolen from its grave by two unemployed mechanics, Polish Roman Wardas and Bulgarian Gantcho Ganev, in an attempt to extort money from Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin.

:* Two American country dance films on DVD: " Country Corners " ( 1976 ), and " Full of Life A-Dancin '" ( 1978 ).

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

By 1982, the perceived passivity of the FARC, together with the relative success of the government's efforts against the M-19 and ELN, enabled the administration of the Liberal Party's Julio César Turbay ( 1978 – 1982 ) to lift a state-of-siege decree that had been in effect, on and off, for most of the previous 30 years.

A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.

It opened for signature on 18 May 1977 in Geneva and entered into force on 5 October 1978.

The first published bibliography on Smith ; superseded by Donald Sidney-Fryer's Emperor of Dreams ( 1978 )-see below.

Will Eisner popularized the term " graphic novel " when he used it on the cover of the paperback edition of his work A Contract with God, and Other Tenement Stories in 1978.

Image: Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978. gif | Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Lodge patio of Camp David on September 6, 1978.