October 1978 in Music

Events in Music

Oct 9 12th Country Music Association Award: Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle & Don Williams wins

Oct 12 Sid Vicious charged with murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen

Oct 13 "52nd Street" 6th studio album by Billy Joel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1979)

Oct 22 "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
Oct 23 Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC

Oct 24 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto

Oct 2 Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
Oct 3 Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
Oct 5 James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)
Oct 7 Alesha Dixon, British pop singer (Mis-Teeq)
Oct 8 Mike Moreno, American jazz musician (First in Mind), born in Houston, Texas
Oct 9 Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife), born in Dublin, Ireland
Oct 14 Justin Brannan, American musician, writer

Oct 14 Usher, American singer (My Way, Confessions) and actor, born in Dallas, Texas

Oct 16 Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
Oct 16 Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
Oct 19 Chris Sellers, American rapper (Another Bad Creation), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Oct 19 Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
Oct 24 Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
Oct 26 Mark Barry, English musician (BBMak)
Oct 27 Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
Oct 28 Justin Guarini, American singer

Oct 6 ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad (32) weds fellow ABBA musician Benny Andersson (31)

Oct 7 Country singer Merle Haggard (41) weds his backup singer Leona Williams (35)

Oct 8 Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
Oct 9 Jacques Brel, Belgian singer, songwriter, actor, director and composer (Le Far West, Pain in the A__), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 49
Oct 10 Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)

Oct 23 Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69