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    • Sep 8, 1980
    New York jazz station WRVR flips to country WKHK, launching with Waylon Jennings' "Are You Ready For The Country"
    Sep 13, 1980
    Elton John performs for an estimated 450,000 people at Central Park in New York, including Carly Simon, Susan Anton, Dudley Moore and Bernie Taupin
    Sep 14, 1980
    Lynn Anderson plays New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall
    Oct 5, 1980
    Linda Ronstadt attends a performance of the Broadway drama "The Elephant Man," starring David Bowie, at the Booth Theater in New York
    Nov 16, 1980
    Frank Luther dies in New York City. An early country recording artist, he earned a handful of hits in the 1920s and '30s, some recorded with Carson Robison
    Nov 19, 1980
    "Heaven's Gate," a western movie starring Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken, opens in New York. Production costs for the movie totalled $40 million, staggering at a time when only 12 films had ever earned that much at the box office
    Nov 27, 1980
    Lacy J. Dalton appears in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, co-hosted by Ed McMahon from NBC in New York. Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith take part, promoting the Broadway show "Pirates Of Penzance"
    Dec 8, 1980
    John Lennon dies of a gun shot from a disturbed fan outside his New York home, the Dakota. Songs Lennon co-wrote as a member of The Beatles will become 1980s country hits for Sweethearts Of The Rodeo and Rosanne Cash
    Dec 20, 1980
    Linda Ronstadt and "Pirates Of Penzance" partner Rex Smith are the musical guests for NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" in New York
    Jan 10, 1981
    Linda Ronstadt plays Mabel in her first Broadway appearance in "The Pirates Of Penzance," co-starring with Rex Smith
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