Bowie on SNL
Dec 15 British rocker David Bowie performs three songs on American television program Saturday Night Live - "The Man Who Sold the World", "TVC-15" and "Boys Keep Swinging"
- Dec 20 Garry Sherman and Peter Udell's musical "Comin' Uptown", based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and starring Gregory Hines, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
"Pretenders"
Dec 27 Sire Records releases "Pretenders", the debut album of The Pretenders, in US
- Dec 30 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up