Year:1978

Bands Formed
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Survivor

Singles Released

 * Wuthering Heights Kate Bush
 * Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) Buzzcocks
 * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song) - With a Little Help from My Friends The Beatles
 * Damaged Goods Gang of Four
 * Psycho Killer Talking Heads
 * Shot by Both Sides Magazine
 * The Model Kraftwerk
 * Rock Lobster The B-52's
 * Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones
 * Down in the Tube Station at Midnight The Jam
 * Public Image Public Image Ltd.
 * Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers
 * The Robots Kraftwerk
 * (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais The Clash
 * Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers
 * What Do I Get? Buzzcocks
 * I Am the Cosmos Chris Bell
 * I Am the Fly Wire
 * Sultans of Swing Dire Straits
 * The Man With the Child in His Eyes Kate Bush
 * Hong Kong Garden Siouxsie & the Banshees
 * Neon Lights Kraftwerk
 * Just What I Needed The Cars
 * I Don't Mind Buzzcocks
 * (I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello
 * Starry Eyes The Records
 * Hanging on the Telephone Blondie
 * Radio Radio Elvis Costello and the Attractions
 * September Earth, Wind & Fire
 * Killing an Arab The Cure
 * Because the Night Patti Smith
 * Surrender Cheap Trick
 * Driver's Seat Sniff 'n' the Tears
 * Kiss Me Again Dinosaur
 * Gut Feeling Devo
 * How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Al Green
 * (Hey Lord) Don't Ask Me Questions Graham Parker
 * Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) Styx
 * Too Much Heaven Bee Gees

Albums Released

 * Date Released: Artist - Album
 * January 20: XTC - White Music
 * October 6: XTC - Go 2

Classical music

 * more than 50 years after Frank Bridge wrote it, is performed for the first Vignettes de Marseille, during a radio broadcast.
 * 12 april: first performance of Les espaces du sommeil of Witold Lutosławski
 * 12 October: first performance of Klavierstücke No. 6 by Wolfgang Rihm

Matches

 * Eurovision Song Contest 1978

Festivals

 * Pinkpop 1978