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:
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)