Blue left the group due to medical problems and was briefly replaced by Laurie McAllister in November 1978. McAllister was referred to the band by her neighbor, Duane Hitchings, who played keyboards on And Now… The Runaways . Before joining the Runaways, McAllister played with Baby Roulette and the Rave…
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The band’s next release was a live five-track extended play, You’re Thirteen, You’re Beautiful, and You’re Mine , in November 1978.
Jones officially joined the band in November 1978. At the same time Jones joined, keyboardist John “Rabbit” Bundrick was added to the line-up, though he was not made an official member.
The follow-up single, ” So Lonely “, issued in November 1978, failed to chart.
The final product, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park , debuted on NBC on October 28, 1978.
Childhood friends John Taylor and Nick Rhodes formed Duran Duran in 1978 in Birmingham , England, together with Taylor’s art school friend Stephen Duffy , naming their band after “Dr. Durand Durand”, Milo O’Shea ‘s character from the science fiction film Barbarella (1968), the day after the film was broadcast…
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The jazz-blues influenced third album, Prehistoric Sounds , followed in October 1978 (January 1979 in Australia). Its commercial failure led EMI to drop the band. During 1978, relations between Kuepper and Bailey had deteriorated, with Bailey preferring rock and pop songs and Kuepper pursuing less commercial and more intellectual material.…
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The Police made their first television appearance in October 1978, on BBC2 ‘s The Old Grey Whistle Test to promote the release of Outlandos d’Amour .
The solo albums were released on September 18, 1978. Casablanca spent $2.5 million on the marketing campaign for the albums, and announced they were shipping five million copies, guaranteeing Platinum status. Despite the large shipments, none of the albums sold particularly well and were later sold as cut-outs . Of…
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with Barnes and Walker on the lead single, “Goodbye (Astrid, Goodbye)” (September 1978)