* Tommy Skeoch ( 1979 ), guitarist of multi-platinum rock band Tesla

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 ".

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.

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 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

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.

*" 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.

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

* Discovery ( 1979 )

Bridges also narrated the documentaries National Geographic's Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West ( 2002, IMAX ), Discovery Channel's Raising the Mammoth ( 2000 ), and ABC's Heroes of Rock and Roll ( 1979 ).

Bev Bevan, the drummer for the Electric Light Orchestra also used rototoms, most notably on the albums Discovery ( 1979 ) and Secret Messages ( 1983 ).

Discovery is a 1979 album by Electric Light Orchestra.

He continued contributing on the following albums A New World Record ( 1976 ), Out of the Blue ( 1977 ), Discovery ( 1979 ), Xanadu ( 1980 ) and Time ( 1981 ).

She was re-designated RRS ( Royal Research Ship ) Discovery in 1923, repurchased in 1929 as a training ship, and was handed over for preserving as a museum ship in 1979.

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.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

King was honored at New York's " Disco Masters Awards Show " for 3 consecutive years ( 1979 – 1981 ) in recognition of his relentless push of the song.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

" Death Disco " ( aka " Swan Lake ") was released as a single in 1979 and reached No. 20 in the charts.

* Disco reigns supreme in 1979, with several # 1 hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer that year.

* CHiPs ( two-part episode " Roller Disco ") ( 1979 )

* July 12, 1979: WLUP Chicago disc jockeys Steve Dahl and Garry Meier staged " Disco Demolition Night " at Comiskey Park between games of a scheduled Chicago White Sox-Detroit Tigers double-header.

Before he opened " Eve After Dark " in 1979, Alonzo transformed from poplocking to DJ dances under the name of Disco Construction, which name is a influence from the funk group Brass Construction.

* GQ-an R & B and disco group, best-known for their 1979 hit " Disco Nights ( Rock Freak )"

Disco Demolition Night was a promotional event that took place on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, during which a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field.

Other pop songs based on Space Invaders soon followed, including " Disco Space Invaders " ( 1979 ) by Funny Stuff, " Space Invaders " ( 1980 ) by Playback, and the hit songs " Space Invader " ( 1980 ) by The Pretenders and " Space Invaders " ( 1980 ) by Uncle Vic.

The genre started to become increasingly commercialized, and the large number of disco songs flooding the radio airwaves in 1978-1979 resulted in a growing backlash against it, as epitomized by the " Disco Demolition Night " stunt by a Chicago disc jockey at a July 1979 baseball game at Comiskey Park.

On July 12, 1979, just a few months after Newsweek had reported on the " over " of disco music, a " tongue-in-cheek " promotional event known as Disco Demolition Night was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

In 1979, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences decided to add a Best Disco Recording category for the 22nd Grammy Awards, just as disco was " preparing to die ".