This is a summary of 1978 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 14 January - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a reunion in 1996), at Winterland, San Francisco. 24 January - Wings' "Mull of Kintyre" made No.1 for its ninth (and final) week - becoming the biggest-selling single in UK history at that point. 25 January - Electric Light Orchestra kicked off their Out of the Blue world tour in Honolulu, Hawaii. 11 March - Kate Bush became the first female solo artist to reach number one in the UK charts with a self-written song ("Wuthering Heights"). 30 April - The Clash, Tom Robinson Band, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex, the Ruts, Misty in Roots and Generation X all play live in Victoria Park, Hackney at the Anti-Nazi League/Rock Against Racism festival, following a march from Trafalgar Square. 25 May - The Who played their last show with Keith Moon. 15 July - The Picnic at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, Surrey, a concert featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Joan Armatrading, attracted some 200,000 people. 30 July - Thin Lizzy officially announced that Gary Moore had replaced Brian Robertson on guitar. 18 August - The Who released their eighth studio Who Are You. It is The Who's last album with Keith Moon as the drummer; Moon died twenty days after the release of this album. September - Second anti-racism event staged in Brockwell Park, South London, featuring Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers and Aswad, with 150,000 attending. 27 November - Def Leppard's permanent drummer Rick Allen joined the band at the age of 15. December - UB40 formed. The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever became the biggest-selling album of all time (until overtaken in 1983). First BBC Young Musician of the Year competition for classical players won by trombonist Michael Hext. Operatic contralto Helen Watts is appointed a CBE. Multitone Records is founded by Pranil Gohil and specializing in bhangra style music. Charts Number one singles Number one albums Year-end charts The tables below include sales between 31 December 1977 and 30 December 1978: the year-end charts reproduced in the issue of Music Week dated 23 December 1978 and played on Radio 1 on 31 December 1978 only include sales figures up until 16 December 1978. Best-selling singles Best-selling albums Notes: Classical music: new works Malcolm Arnold - Symphony No. 8 Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony no. 1