1979-9-7

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Cliff Richard

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1979
7/31 Tue
"250,000 turn out in Central Park for a free concert by James Taylor in a campaign to restore Sheep Meadow."
8/4 Sat
"~11 British rock band Led Zeppelin play what are to be their last British concerts (until 2007) at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. Total attendances for the two concerts approached 400,000.[citation needed]"
8/18 Sat
Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter are married at Carter's Los Angeles home.
8/25 Sat
"My Sharona by The Knack hits #1 on the Billboard charts. This is the first time in over a year that a song hits #1 that is not either a disco song or a ballad, signalling the potential resurgence of rock."
9/1 Sat
"INXS perform in public for the first time, at the Oceanview Hotel in Umina, New South Wales."
9/2 Sun
U2 enters the studio for the first time to record a locally released single.
9/13 Thu
"ABBA begins ABBA: The Tour in Edmonton, Alberta, leading off a month of dates in North America."
9/16 Sun
"The single ""Rapper's Delight"" by The Sugarhill Gang is released. Its success marks the commercial emergence of hip hop music."
9/17 Mon
"Ontario Court of Appeals rejects a government appeal against the previous year's sentencing of Keith Richards, which allowed him to avoid jail time for his 1977 arrest in Toronto for heroin possession."
9/19 Wed
"-23 Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) stages a series of five No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden. Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Petty, James Taylor and Carly Simon are amon
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