Editing 1978 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 3]] – [[Jack Oakie]], 74, actor in many musical films of the 1940s
*[[January 23]]
**<!--January 23-->[[Terry Kath]], 31, [[Chicago (band)|Chicago]] guitarist and vocalist (unintentional self-inflicted gunshot )
**<!--January 23-->Vic Ames, 52, pop singer ([[Ames Brothers]])
*[[January 31]] – [[Gregory Herbert]], [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]] saxophonist
*[[February 7]] – [[Dimitrie Cuclin]], 82, composer and musicologist
*[[February 24]] – [[Mrs Mills]], 59, honky-tonk pianist
*[[March 4]] – [[Joe Marsala]], 71, clarinetist and songwriter
*[[March 11]] – [[Claude François]], 39, singer-songwriter (electrocuted)
*[[March 17]] – [[Malvina Reynolds]], 77, US folk/blues singer-songwriter
*[[March 18]] – [[Peggy Wood]], 86, actress and singer
*[[March 21]] – [[Louis Cottrell, Jr.]], 67, saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1911)
*[[April 3]] – [[Ray Noble (musician)|Ray Noble]], 74, composer and bandleader
*[[April 21]] – [[Sandy Denny]], 31, folk singer ([[Fairport Convention]]) (cerebral haemorrhage)
*[[May 1]] – [[Aram Khachaturian]], 74, composer
*[[May 5]] – [[Ján Móry]], 85, Slovak composer
*[[May 26]] – [[Tamara Karsavina]], 93, ballerina
*[[July 14]] – [[Maria Grinberg]], 69, pianist
*[[July 29]] – [[Glenn Goins]], 24, [[Parliament Funkadelic]] guitarist and singer ([[Hodgkin's lymphoma]])
*[[August 1]] – [[Rudolf Kolisch]], 82, Viennese and American violinist and quartet leader
*[[August 14]] – [[Joe Venuti]], 74, US jazz violinist
*[[August 24]] – [[Louis Prima]], 67, jazz musician
*[[September 6]] – [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]], 47, producer
*[[September 7]] – [[Keith Moon]], 32, drummer of [[The Who]] (drug overdose)
*[[September 24]] – [[Ruth Etting]], 80, US "torch" singer
*[[October 6]] – [[Johnny O'Keefe]], 43, Australian Singer
*[[October 9]] – [[Jacques Brel]], 49, singer-songwriter
*[[October 12]] – [[Nancy Spungen]], 20, girlfriend of [[Sid Vicious]]
*[[October 23]] – [[Maybelle Carter]] née Addington, 69, US country singer and musician, member of the [[Carter Family]]
*[[November 12]] – [[Howard Swanson]], 71, composer
*[[November 18]] – [[Lennie Tristano]], 59, jazz pianist
*[[December 3]] – [[William Grant Still]], 83, composer
*[[December 27]] – [[Chris Bell (musician)|Chris Bell]], 27, singer-songwriter (auto accident)