Every new year brings a new round of great music for us to enjoy for decades to come, but few can boast having as good a release catalogue as the year 1979. Maybe folks were trying to squeeze the last ...
The late 1970s was one of the wildest eras ever in music, as genres formed and imploded with random, rapid flair. In 1979, “Pop Muzik” seemed to anticipate the decade to come in the way that it melded ...
On August 25, 1979, "My Sharona" by The Knack hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 just two months after debuting. It stayed in that spot for six weeks, eventually being dethroned on October 6.