Classic Rock 1978 Queen, The Police, Van Halen, Boston, TOTO, Styx, Bruce Springsteen

A huge year for soundtrack albums with Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack at, 1 in the US from January through June, becoming the best selling soundtrack album ever and the Grease Soundtrack selling 38 million copies. The Sex Pistols break up following a final concert at San Francisco s Winterland Ballroom. Disco and Punk Rock make 1978 the biggest year ever for singles sold in the UK. Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, dies of a prescription drug overdose. Former Sex Pistol s bassist Sid Vicious is charged with stabbing his girlfriend to death.