Sega's 1982 arcade game Super Locomotive featured a chiptune rendition of Yellow Magic Orchestra's " Rydeen " ( 1979 ); several later computer games also covered the song, such as Trooper Truck ( 1983 ) by Rabbit Software as well as Daley Thompson's Decathlon ( 1984 ) and Stryker's Run ( 1986 ) composed by Martin Galway.

The Saturn version also includes a port of Sega's 1979 arcade game Deep Scan, which can be used to gain extra credits.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

* Head of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council ( 1979 – 2003 )

*" Talking Head ", a 1979 song by Motörhead from Bomber

*" The Kid with the Replaceable Head " ( 1979 )

Spurn Head from the air in 1979

* Daryl Palumbo ( 1979 –), of the bands GlassJaw and Head Automatica.

* Neill Armstrong, Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1979 – 1982

* Just Above My Head ( novel ; 1979 )

* The cover photo of English avant-garde quartet Throbbing Gristle's 1979 record 20 Jazz Funk Greats was taken at Beachy Head.

* James Staley ( 1979 ), Head of Investment Banking at JPMorgan Chase

* Le Brocquy, Pierre, ed., Louis le Brocquy, The Head Image, ( Kinsale: Gandon Editions 1996 ), with contributions by Prof. George Morgan ‘ An interview with Louis le Brocquy ’; Michael Peppiatt ‘ An interview with Louis le Brocquy ’ ( 1979 ),-German trans.

In 1979, Head appeared in the final episode of the ITV programme Return of the Saint.

She was a PE and Humanities teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer School on Cox Street in Coventry from 1974 – 92, becoming Head of Sixth Form Studies, and was a member of Warwick District Council from 1979 to 1991.

Obasanjo served until 1 October 1979, when he handed power to Shehu Shagari, a democratically elected civilian president-hence becoming the first Military Head of state to transfer power peacefully to a civilian regime in Nigeria.

He was Head of Youth Affairs at the British Council from 1979 until 1983, and was responsible for public education and advocacy for War on Want from 1984 to 1988.

He worked as a research scientist for the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) Radiobiology Unit at Harwell in Oxfordshire from 1979 – 85, where he researched the removal of radionuclides from lung tissue, before becoming Head of Computing for the Mathilda and Terence Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in Charing Cross ( now owned by Imperial College ) from 1985 – 90, building computer systems for the Kennedy Institute ( also part of Hammersmith Hospital ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Research Council and Charing Cross Sunley Research Centre.

From 1979 – 82, she was Head of a Special Needs Unit in Somerset.

Their third album, Head Games ( August 1979 ), which was referred to by Gramm as their " grainiest " album, was also successful because of the thunderous " Dirty White Boy " and another title track hit " Head Games.

Among these are: The Oak Ridge Boys's top five hit, " I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head ( And Left My Heart Alone )," originally from Conway's 1979 album Crosswinds, Steve Wariner's " I'm Already Taken " from Twitty's 1981 album Mr. T ( which Wariner wrote ), Lee Greenwood's " It Turns Me Inside Out " from Twitty's 1982 album Southern Comfort, John Conlee's " In My Eyes " from Twitty's 1982 album Dream Maker, John Schneider's " What's a Memory Like You ( Doin ' in a Love Like This?

* Ladybird, Ladybird ( 1979 ), The King's Head, Islington, London

* Chuck Noll ' 53-Only Four time Super Bowl winning Head Coach ( Pittsburgh Steelers 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980.

Head football coach Barry Streeter, the winningest coach in school history, is also the longest-tenured coach in the Centennial Conference, having helmed the program since 1979.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

On September 23, 1979, the landfill was the site of an anti-nuclear rally attended by 200, 000 people.

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

On July 21, 1979, six days after the riot, the top six records on the U. S. music charts were disco songs.

On 2 March 1979, an agreement on a Danish loan to Afghanistan was signed.

On May 10, 1979, four of the Trust Territory districts ratified the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia.

On March 13, 1979, the New Jewel Movement launched an armed revolution which removed Gairy, suspended the constitution, and established a People's Revolutionary Government ( PRG ), headed by Maurice Bishop who declared himself prime minister.

On July 29, 1979, ten days after his eighty-first birthday, Marcuse died after having suffered a stroke during a visit to Germany.

On November 1, 1957, a United States Coast Guard LORAN-A station was commissioned ( on Sand Island ) which switched to a LORAN-C station in 1979.

On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel ( born 1938 ) and Philippe ( 1940 – 1979 ).

On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

On 20 September 1979, representatives of the United States and Kiribati met on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts group of Kiribati, and signed a treaty of friendship between their two nations ( commonly referred to as the Treaty of Tarawa of 1979 ) by which the United States recognized Kiribati's sovereignty over Malden and thirteen other islands in the Line and Phoenix Islands groups.

On January 19, 1979, President Jimmy Carter announced that he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Mead.

On February 1, 1979 in Istanbul, under orders from the Grey Wolves, he murdered Abdi İpekçi, editor of a major Turkish newspaper Milliyet.

On November 20, 1979 two hundred armed Islamist dissidents led by Saudi preacher Juhayman al-Otaibi seized the Grand Mosque.

On July 19, 1979, a new government was proclaimed under a provisional junta headed by 35-year-old Daniel Ortega and including Violeta Chamorro, Pedro's widow.