Timeline Friday 30 November 1979

Events on Friday 30 November 1979 2

• 1901 – 1979 Zeppo Marx (1901-1979) Died 30 November 1979, aged 78 Zeppo Marx, the youngest of the Marx Brothers comedy team, died of lung cancer in Palm Springs, California. After leaving the act in the 1930s he became a successful engineer and talent agent. He died on 30 November 1979.
• 1979 The Wall -- the double album of isolation The Wall is released on 30 November 1979. A double album concept work about a rock musician ('Pink') who builds a psychological wall around himself to shut out the world, it is Roger Waters's most fully realised concept and Pink Floyd's commercial peak. 'Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)' -- with its children's choir ('We don't need no education') -- reaches Number 1 in 18 countries and is the UK's best-selling single of 1979. The album spends 15 weeks at Number 1 in the US. It eventually sells over 30 million copies. It is simultaneously a masterpiece and the beginning of the end for Pink Floyd.