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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 7)
Jimmy Buffett released Volcano. John Cale released Sabotage/Live. Kansas released Monolith. Kate Bush, who had recently released her debut album (The Kick Inside, 1978), embarked on “The Tour of Life,”...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 8)
Martin Scorsese was directing Raging Bull. Michael Cimino was going over budget and over schedule on Heaven’s Gate. L. Ron Hubbard was preparing to publish Battlefield Earth (1980). L. Sprague de Camp...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 9)
Michael Jackson released Off the Wall. Magazine released their second album, Secondhand Daylight. Marianne Faithfull married Ben Brierly of The Vibrators and recorded her comeback album Broken English....
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 10)
Nurse With Wound released their debut album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. Pink Floyd released The Wall. Nadia Boulanger passed away (on 22 October). Nadia...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 11)
Peter Weir was directing Gallipoli. Peter Bogdanovich was directing Ben Gazzara in Saint Jack (1980). The film, which was shot entirely on location in Singapore, was subsequently banned there (until...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 12)
Queen released their live double album Live Killers. Racey released their debut album, Smash and Grab. A few years later, Toni Basil would rework their song “Kitty” as “Mickey.” UK rock band Rainbow...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 13)
Samuel Fuller was directing The Big Red One. Some people were making Herbie Goes Bananas. Eight years later, it would contribute to one of history’s worst nuclear disasters. Salman Rushdie was...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 14)
The B-52’s released their debut album, The B-52’s. Talking Heads, who were breaking into the mainstream, released Fear of Music. They were also still promoting 1978’s More Songs About Buildings and...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 15)
The Jam released Setting Sons. The Kinks released Low Budget. They were also recording the live album One for the Road… …and Give the People What They Want (released in 1981). The Knacks’s single “My...
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What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 16)
Werner Herzog released Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. Walter Hill released The Warriors. Volker Schlöndorff released his adaptation of Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum). William Friedkin was directing...
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