The Bob Marley on Kaya is not the holy justice warrior of the early 1970s. We have exclusive live footage of several of these acts performing around 1978, including the Talking Heads, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament-Funkadelic. We’ve been taking a look back at music history in decade increments, beginning with the Best Albums of 1968 and continuing with each decade (19 are coming soon). And a handful of punk stalwarts would look to the looming ‘80s with a sense of pop adventure that came to define the radio hits of the next 10 years. Kraftwerk would quietly continue laying the ground work for an electronic revolution. Eddie Van Halen would inspire a generation of would-be guitar gods. Funk fans got their first annual festival in Chicago, “One Nation Under a Groove,” just a month after the death of Parliament-Funkadelic singer Glenn Goins at the age of 24. Blue-collar roots rock sold millions of records thanks to Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen. In 1978, Keith Moon played his last show with The Who, while The Rolling Stones returned to form with Some Girls. Several of our favorite albums from 1978 appeared on our lists of the Best Post-Punk and Best Best New Wave albums. The rest of the Billboard chart was filled with lite-pop ballads like Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” and Exile’s “Kiss You All Over.” But music was also in the midst of a post-punk revolution. Andy Gibb and the Bee Gees had five of the eight biggest singles of the year. Forty years ago, popular music was dominated by disco.
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