November 1978

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The Cars roll into Europe for a mini-tour that will include Germany, France, Belgium and Britain.
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Music-business vet General (Norman) Johnson -- whose roots go all the way back to the Showmen's 1961 hit ode to rock & roll, "It Will Stand," and who also sang the scatting, stuttering, Billy Stewart -influenced lead on Chairmen of the Board's 1970 hit "Give Me Just a Little More Time" -- enters the soul chart with "Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do," which will peak at #79.

Greg Reeves, former bassist with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, sues Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young for $1 million in unpaid back royalties.

Boston, the rock band from the city of the same name, play their hometown for the first time since becoming a huge national act. The band, whose first album in 1976 was the fastest- selling debut in U.S. rock history, open a two-night sold-out stand at the Boston Garden.

Top of the charts: Anne Murray's "You Needed Me" (pop single); Linda Ronstadt's Living in the U.S.A. (pop album).
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William Jefferson Clinton is elected governor of Arkansas, becoming the youngest governor in the nation at the age of 32.
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The Clash's second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope, is released in England on CBS Records. It will soon become their first American album release, on Epic Records.
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Memphis' long-serving soul singer, songwriter, arranger and producer Isaac Hayes enters the soul chart with For the Sake of Love, which will peak at #15.

On the same day that ex-Rufus lead singer Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" hits Number One on the soul chart, the album from which it came, Chaka, enters the soul LP chart, where it will peak at #2.
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Chic (main members, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards) are awarded their second gold record of 1978, for "Le Freak," which will hit Number One in January 1979. The group had earlier received a gold disc for "Dance, Dance, Dance."
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Queen play at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with several semi-nude women bicycling on stage for their hit "Fat Bottomed Girls."
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Linda Ronstadt's anthology album A Retrospective becomes their eighth gold album.
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The Boomtown Rats' "Rat Trap" reaches Number One on the U.K. charts.

Critically acclaimed British funk-pop band Hot Chocolate make one of their rare entries into the U.S. soul chart with "Every 1's a Winner," which in its eighteen weeks on the chart will peak at #7.

Followers of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ shoot and kill California Congressman Leo J. Ryan and members of his staff after his inspection of Jones's 27,000-acre ranch in Guyana. Fearing reprisals, a paranoid Jones orders a mass suicide by lethal injection and counsumption of poison-laced Kool-Aid, and then shoots himself. The death toll is more than 900.
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British new waver Ian Dury releases his biggest hit, "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick," a huge seller in the U.K. but a noncharter in the U.S.
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New York new wave band Talking Heads hit #29 on the LP chart with their second album, More Songs about Buildings and Food -- the highest position on any U.S. chart so far for a new wave act.

Several veteran soul acts make rather rare disco-era soul-chart entries this day: former Impressions lead singer Jerry Butler with Nothing Says I Love You Like "I Love You," which in twelve weeks on the soul LP chart will peak at #42; former "Duke of Earl" Gene Chandler with Get Down, which will peak at #12 in eighteen weeks on the soul LP chart, and the title single of which is currently climbing the soul chart to #3; Gladys Knight, with a solo single, "I'm Coming Home Again," that will peak at #54 in nine weeks, and a solo album, Miss Gladys Knight, that will peak at #57 in five weeks; Joe Simon with "Love Vibration," which will peak at #15 in fifteen weeks on the chart; and the Temptations with "Ever Ready Love," which will climb to #31 on the chart, from the #46 hit soul LP Bare Back.
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San Francisco mayor George Monscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are shot dead by disgruntled former supervisor and homophobe Dan White.
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Neil Young's thirteenth solo album, Comes a Time, goes gold. The mainly acoustic album features such FM radio hits as "Goin' Back" and "Look Out for My Love," as well as "Human Highway" -- also the title of a film, directed by and starring Young with Devo, which is slated for 1983 release.
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