Editing 1979 in music (section)

===March–April===
* [[March 2]]–4 – [[Weather Report]], The CBS Jazz All-Stars, the [[Trio of Doom]], [[Fania All-Stars]], [[Stephen Stills]], [[Billy Swan]], [[Bonnie Bramlett]], Mike Finnegan, [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Rita Coolidge]] and [[Billy Joel]], plus Cuban acts [[Irakere]], [[Pacho Alonso]], [[Elena Burke]], Los Papines, [[Tata Güines]] and [[Orquesta Aragón]] play at the historic three-day [[Havana Jam]] festival at the [[Karl Marx Theater]], in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]].
* [[March 5]] – [[MCA Records]] dissolves [[ABC Records]].
* [[March 10]] – [[James Brown]] performs at the [[Grand Ole Opry]].
* [[March 15]] – [[Elvis Costello]] gets into a heated argument with members of [[Stephen Stills]]' touring entourage at a [[Holiday Inn]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]], United States. After Costello makes disparaging and racist remarks, he is punched by [[Bonnie Bramlett]]. Costello suffers a wave of negative press coverage after the incident is made public.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wawzenek|first=Bryan|title=That Time Elvis Costello Incited a Brawl With Racist Remarks|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/elvis-costello-racist-remarks/|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Ultimate Classic Rock|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – 
**[[Eric Clapton]] marries [[Patti Boyd]], ex-wife of Clapton's friend [[George Harrison]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Doggett|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Doggett|title=You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2009|isbn=978-0-06-177418-8|page=261}}</ref>
**[[Simple Minds]] make their first television appearance, performing the songs "Chelsea Girl" and "Life in a Day" on BBC's ''[[The Old Grey Whistle Test]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/simple-minds/1979/the-old-grey-whistle-test-bbc-television-theatre-london-england-63c4beef.html |title=Simple Minds setlist at The Old Grey Whistle Test |publisher=setlist.fm }}</ref>
* [[March 31]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1979|Eurovision Song Contest]], the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe – [[Israel]]. The show is broadcast live from [[Jerusalem]] to Europe and a few countries in Asia. The big winner of this night is [[Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest|Israel]] for the second time in a row. The winning song is "[[Hallelujah (Milk and Honey song)|Hallelujah]]" sung by the group [[Milk and Honey (Israeli group)|Milk and Honey]], including [[Gali Atari]]. A few months after winning the song had been translated into more than 82 languages, and broke a new record by entering the Guinness Book of Records as the most translated song in the world.
* [[April 2]] – [[Kate Bush]] begins [[The Tour of Life|her first, and for 35 years, only tour.]] She becomes the first artist to use a [[wireless microphone]], enabling her to sing and dance at the same time.
* [[April 6]] – [[Rod Stewart]] marries [[Alana Stewart|Alana Hamilton]].
* [[April 7]] – 110,000 people attend the California Music Festival at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. Performers include [[Aerosmith]], [[The Boomtown Rats]], [[Cheap Trick]], [[Ted Nugent]] and [[Van Halen]].
* [[April 12]] – [[Mickey Thomas (singer)|Mickey Thomas]] replaces [[Marty Balin]] as the lead singer of [[Jefferson Starship]].
* [[April 13]] – During a concert by [[Van Halen]] in [[Spokane, Washington]], [[David Lee Roth]] collapses from exhaustion. A local doctor treats him for a stomach virus and advises him to "calm down".
* [[April 22]] – [[The New Barbarians]] and [[The Rolling Stones]] perform two concerts in [[Oshawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada, to benefit the [[CNIB]], as part of [[Keith Richards]]' 1978 sentence for heroin possession.
* [[April 27]] – [[Ozzy Osbourne]] is fired as lead singer of [[Black Sabbath]]. He is replaced in May by [[Ronnie James Dio]].