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| 1975 |
| | | David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The British group the Sex Pistols launch punk rock, with their first gig at St Martin's School of Art in London | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Frederick Ashton creates a ballet based on Turgenev's play A Month in the Country, to music by Chopin | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Pierre Boulez establishes in Paris IRCAM, an advanced institute for research into the techniques of modern music | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Estonian composer Arvo Pärt completes his choral work Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Elvis Presley dies, aged 42, at his home in Memphis, Tennessee | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Hungarian composer György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Beatle John Lennon is murdered by a psychopath on the steps of his and Yoko Ono's apartment block in New York | |
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| 1981 |
| | | War Music is the first instalment of Christopher Logue's version of the Iliad | |
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