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January 8 – British Rail authorities restrict Pipe Major Gordon Speirs to playing his bagpipes just one minute in every fifteen on Liverpool Street station, London, on grounds that his playing (part of a holiday campaign by the Scottish Tourist Board) "interferes with station business".
September 24 – Alfred Kalmus, music publisher, 93; September 28 – Rory Storm, 33, English singer (appendicitis) September 30 – Grigore Cugler, 69, Romanian riter, artist, composer and violinist; October 3 – Kari Marie Aarvold Glaser, 71, Norwegian pianist and music teacher; October 24 – Thelma Votipka, 67, operatic mezzo-soprano ...
Within a seven-month time span from October 1978 to May 1979, four other notable performers died: Mel Street, a relative newcomer whose honky tonk stylings made him one of the decade's most promising new artists; "Mother" Maybelle and Sara Carter, of the pioneering Carter Family; and Lester Flatt, an early bluegrass pioneer who formed a ...
October 31 – George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic begin "The P-Funk/Rubber Band Earth Tour" in Houston, a national live series highlighting one of the biggest and revolutionary stage shows in the history of the music industry (the rock group Kiss would be the other group to do a similar act), relying on elaborate costumes, special lighting and effects, and extremely large props including ...
April 24–25 – Music aired on the radio in Portugal acts as a secret signal to trigger the Carnation Revolution there: at 10:55 p.m. on April 24, Paulo de Carvalho's "E Depois do Adeus" (Portugal's entry in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest) on Emissores Associados de Lisboa alerts rebel captains and soldiers that the coup is beginning; at 12:20 a.m. on April 25, Rádio Renascença ...
31 – Morten Qvenild, jazz pianist, band leader, and music producer. September 3 – Terje Bakken , black metal lead singer known as "Valfar", Windir , (died 2004 ).
1978 saw the release of new video games such as Space Invaders.The year is considered the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games.The year's highest-grossing video game was Taito's arcade game Space Invaders, while the best-selling home system was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS).
