![]() February 19 – Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, dies in London.February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.January 25 – Paul McCartney is released from jail in Japan and ejected from the country by Japanese authorities.January 19 – The first UK Indie Chart is published in Record Week, with Spizzenergi's " Where's Captain Kirk" topping the singles chart, and Adam and the Ants' Dirk Wears White Sox topping the album chart.The remaining part of McCartney's and Wings' tour was subsequently canceled. January 16 – Paul McCartney is arrested in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana.January 14 – Rush release Permanent Waves, which eventually becomes the band's fifth platinum album.January 13 – The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Starship perform at a benefit concert at Oakland Coliseum for the people of Kampuchea.Investigators are never able to determine whether his death was a murder or suicide. January 7 – At the age of 44, songwriter Larry Williams is found dead in his Los Angeles, California, home of a gunshot wound to the head.January 5 – Donna Summer Brings her 3 double album in a 14-month period, to the top of the Billboard Albums charts when Greatest Hits: On the Radio Vol 1 & 2 reaches the top spot.Cliff Richard is appointed an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1980. Alternative rock singer Siouxsie Sioux in 1980
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