6025 left the band in March 1979.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

The semi-theatrical music and comedy troupe transformed into a ska-influenced new wave band in 1979, and then changed again towards a more guitar-oriented rock sound, in the late 1980s.

The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.

Öngür joined Dadaşlar, a band with Ersen Dinleten between 1974 – 1975 and 1979 – 1980 and Dervişan ( Dervishes ), a band with Cem Karaca between 1974 and 1978 ; in 1975, Danga participated in Erkin Koray's ' Elektronik Türküler ' ( Electronic Songs ) album.

In 1979 the band took a turn back to hard rock with the release of Nine Lives.

* Solid State Survivor, a 1979 album by the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra

* Strikes ( album ), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

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 ).

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.

In 1979, one of the Stranglers ' two managers advised them to break up as he felt that the band had lost direction, but this idea was dismissed and they parted company with their then current management team.

In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, " Get Over You ".

* Rock band Toto's 1979 single release " 99 " is a song whose content is inspired by THX-1138s society, where people are given numbers instead of names, as well as having a music video featuring the band in an all-white room dressed in white, a set piece designed around the film.

The Replacements were an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979, and are considered pioneers of alternative rock.

In 1979, creative differences pulled the band in different directions, leading to the Document and Eyewitness LP ( 1981 ), a recording of a live performance that featured, almost exclusively, new material, which was described as " disjointed ", " unrecognizable as rock music " and " almost unlistenable ".

The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits " Making Plans for Nigel " ( 1979 ) and " Senses Working Overtime " ( 1982 ), but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical ( rather than commercial ) success.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

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 ".

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.

* Extensions ( The Manhattan Transfer album ), 1979

* Eve ( The Alan Parsons Project album ), 1979

In 1979, the multi-platinum album Discovery ( or " Disco?

In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right which contained her next disco hit, " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )", which featured Doc Severinsen of The Tonight Show fame, on trumpet solo.

He is reputed to be the subject of her song " Herrmann Hiess Er " ( English title " Herrmann Was His Name ") from the 1979 Unbehagen album, a song about a drug addict.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

* In the song " Philby ", from the Top Priority album ( 1979 ), Rory Gallagher draws parallels between his life on the road and a spy's in a foreign country.

* Kylyn, a jazz-fusion album of Kazumi Watanabe, released in 1979.

An album was also released by Monty Python in 1979 in conjunction with the film.

* 1979 – The Damned – " I Just Can't Be Happy Today " / " Ballroom Blitz " ( with Lemmy on bass ) / " Turkey Song " ( 7 " single ) – available as bonus track on the reissued Machine Gun Etiquette album

*" Madness ", a song by Prince Buster from the 1963 album I Feel the Spirit, covered by Madness on the 1979 album One Step Beyond ...

The Clash album London Calling, released in December 1979, exemplified the breadth of classic punk's legacy.

In 1979, Walsh was hired as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work ; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying " Once I stepped back, I liked the view " and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

In November 1979, Alonso hired Brad Naples as the company's Business Manager.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

In 1979, the team hired Don Cherry as head coach and traded for Maple Leafs star Lanny McDonald.

The magazine was taken over by flamboyant publisher Bert Randolph Sugar in 1979, who hired Randy Gordon — who would go on later that decade to become New York's boxing commissioner — as his editor-in-chief.

In 1979 he was hired by the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) as its New England Civil Rights director and in 1984 he was named New England director for the organization.

He & his family have been Kirksville residents since 1979 when he was hired by Hollister, Incorporated as a quality engineer.

ILM began creating computer-generated imagery when they hired Edwin Catmull from NYIT in 1979.

After an August 1971 hospitalization, doctors requested that he stop touring indefinitely ; pianist Keith Godchaux was subsequently hired and remained a permanent member of the band until 1979.

After Adam Osborne sold his computer book-publishing company to McGraw-Hill in 1979, he decided to sell an inexpensive portable computer with bundled software and hired Lee Felsenstein to design it.

She also sang backup for Bette Midler, who hired her for her 1979 tour as one of The Harlettes.

Bowie hired them as performers and backup singers for his appearance on Saturday Night Live which aired on December 15, 1979.

Veeck hired player-manager Don Kessinger to succeed Doby, although Kessinger resigned as manager in the second half of the 1979 season.

Vila was hired as the host of This Old House in 1979 after receiving the " Heritage House of 1978 " award by Better Homes and Gardens, for his restoration of a Victorian Italianate house in Newton, Massachusetts.

In 1972, Hersh was hired as a reporter for the Washington bureau of The New York Times, where he served from 1972 to 1975 and again in 1979.

In 1979, IFK hired Sven-Göran Eriksson as manager.

From 1972 to 1979, Tory was hired by family friend Ted Rogers as a journalist for Rogers Broadcasting's Toronto radio stations CFTR and CHFI.

Sittler's relationship with Ballard slowly deteriorated, particularly after Ballard hired Punch Imlach as general manager in July 1979.

He was Apple employee # 282, and was hired in February, 1979, initially as an Apple II service technician.

In 1979 Moulton's television career began when she was hired to work behind the scenes on Julia Child & More Company, a cooking program on PBS.