1980 in music

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Deaths

• January 2 - Larry Williams
• January 6 - Poley McClintock, jazz musician
• January 7 - Carl White, the Rivingtons
• January 29 - Jimmy Durante US pianist & entertainer
• January 30 - Professor Longhair US pianist
• February 19 - Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, choked to after a heavy drinking binge
• March 26 - Jon Paulus (32), the Buckinghams, drug overdose
• March 26 - Ted Shapiro, US songwriter & pianist
• March 28 - Dick Haymes, (63), Argentinian-born US singer and actor
• March 30 - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer
• April 28 - Tommy Caldwell, Marshall Tucker Band, car accident
• May 18 - Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, suicide by hanging
• June 16 - Bob Nolan, country singer and songwriter
• June 20 - Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer
• June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German composer, bandleader and arranger
• June 27 - Barney Bigard, US jazz clarinetist
• June 28 - Jose Iturbi, pianist
• July 15 - Ben Selvin, The Dean of Recorded Music
• July 23 - Keith Godchaux, Grateful Dead, car accident
• August 17 - Harold Adamson, US lyricist
• September 12 - Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
• September 25 - John Bonham, Led Zeppelin
• December 8 - John Lennon