Highlights of 1977

* Elvis Presley was found dead at his Graceland home. He was 42.

* Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th U.S. president.

* New rock bands who arrived on the scene - The Clash, Talking Heads, B-52s, Def Leppard.

* Hit songs that year included Queen's We are the Champions, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Carly Simon's Nobody Does it Better, Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life and ABBA's Dancing Queen.

* Hitting the airwaves for their TV debuts were Three's Company, Fantasy Island, Eight is Enough, CHiPs, The Love Boat, Soap and Lou Grant.

* The world said goodbye to Freddie Prinze, Joan Crawford, Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Charlie Chaplin.

* The world was introduced to the Apple II.

* New York City suffers a 25-hour blackout, resulting in chaos and looting.

* Top-grossing films were Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Smokey and the Bandit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.