Events
- 20 January – Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a live bat thrown at him during a performance.
- 26 April – Rod Stewart is mugged in Los Angeles, California. Stewart loses his $50,000 Porsche to the mugger, but was not hurt.
- 5 May - "A Little Peace" becomes the 500th UK No.1 single.
- 26 May – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- 28 August - Eric Burdon gets arrested after a show at the Rockpalast in Cologne
- 22 September – The Who begin their only formally-announced "farewell" tour in Washington, D.C.
- 5 November – First broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)