Year:1978

Bands Formed
Public Image Ltd.

Telex

Singles Released
Wuthering Heights Kate Bush

Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) Buzzcocks

Psycho Killer Talking Heads

Damaged Goods Gang of Four

Shot by Both Sides Magazine

Down in the Tube Station at Midnight The Jam

The Model Kraftwerk

Another Girl, Another Planet The Only Ones

Rock Lobster The B-52's

Public Image Public Image Ltd.

The Robots Kraftwerk

I Am the Cosmos Chris Bell

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais The Clash

What Do I Get? Buzzcocks

Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers

The Man With the Child in His Eyes Kate Bush

I Am the Fly Wire

Alternative Ulster Stiff Little Fingers

Sultans of Swing Dire Straits

Hong Kong Garden Siouxsie & the Banshees

Neon Lights Kraftwerk

Killing an Arab The Cure

Just What I Needed The Cars

(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello

I Don't Mind Buzzcocks

T.V.O.D./Warm Leatherette The Normal

Mr. Blue Sky Electric Light Orchestra

Kiss Me Again Dinosaur

Know Your Product The Saints

Because the Night Patti Smith

Radio Radio Elvis Costello

Surrender Cheap Trick

Hanging on the Telephone Blondie

Starry Eyes The Records

Showroom Dummies Kraftwerk

Pump It Up Elvis Costello

Albums Released

 * January 20: XTC - White Music
 * February : Tom Robinson Band - Rising Free (EP)
 * June 2: Crystal Gayle - When I Dream
 * October 13: XTC - Go 2 and Go+
 * October 27: Japan - Obscure Alternatives
 * Keep on Jumpin' - Musique

Other Events
Hip-hop first being coined

Punk and Disco had divided the pop audience.

Factory Records is founded

Mute Records is founded

Rough Trade Records is founded

ZE Records is founded