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I thought this would be fun, as I'm always hearing these updates on the radio.
1449 - Blind Boys of Alabama have a hit with I Can't See Everybody's Mother But My Own
1965 - The Byrds Turn, Turn, Turn is released
1966 - Jimi Hendrix Expierence records Hey Joe
1978 - Price hike in all albums to $8.98
Wow, those Blind Boys of Alabama are a lot older than I thought!
1449, huh? ;-)
Great idea LTL!
1961-Dion's Runaround Sue hits #1.
1980-John Lennon's single Just Like Starting Over is released.
Great idea Evelyn--you know I'll be all over this one!:thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by Prettymaid
LOL I thought 1949 put them older than I though... I really aged them with 1449!!!
I love Lennon's Just like starting over!
Great idea - it's so interesting to see these kind of things.
1962 - James Brown performs at the Appolo
1963 - Beatles leave for their first tour outside of Great Britian
1973 - John Lennon sues the goverment over alleged wire tapping
1989 - Bobby Darin, the Four Seasons, the Four Tops, Carole King, the Kinks, the Platters, Simon & Garfunkel and the Who are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1964 - Rolling Stones make first appearance on Ed Sullivan's show
1975 - Sweet hits #25 in the US with 'Desolation Boulevard'. (thought of TBF)
1961 - Bob Dylan signs his first recording contract, with Columbia Records
1965 - The Beatles are awarded England's prestigious MBE (Members of the Order of tBritish Empire). John comments, "I thought you had to drive tanks and win wars to get the MBE."
1994 - MTV premieres EAGLES: Hell Freezes Over." The music special receives a 2.5 Nielsen rating and more than 2 million viewers tune in for this concert performance. This show marks the first time since 1980 that the band members Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmidt perform together.
Thanks ltlh-That was the Sweet album that did it for me. I had heard Little Willy prior to that but hated that song at first because of all the teasing I received because of it, but once I heard Fox On The Run and Ballroom Blitz, I was absolutely hooked!
1968-Steppenwolf hits #3 with Magic Carpet Ride.
1979-Foreigner hits #12 with Dirty White Boy.
1973
Genesis hits #3 in the UK with 'Selling England By the Pound'. :)
1975
Bruce Springsteen appears simultaneously on the covers of 'Newsweek' and 'Time' after 'Born to Run', his much-anticipated third album, quickly vaults to #3 on the album chart.
Also 1973 Midnight Train To Georgia by Gladys Knight & The Pips tops the charts, and Bob Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door hits #12.
1990 Fly To The Angels by Slaughter hits #19 in the US charts. (Love that group!)
1967 The Who's I Can See For Miles hit #9.
1972 Arlo Guthrie hit #18 with The City Of New Orleans.
1989 Aerosmith hit #5 with Love In The Elevator.
1989 Motley Crue hit #6 with Dr Feelgood.
I hate to be monopolizing this thread but you know I will if no one else gets in on it. :hilarious: Lots of history for all of us here-help me!
1965 The Who released My Generation
1965 James Brown reached #3 with I Got You (I Feel Good)
1965
James Brown reaches #3 with "I Got You (I Feel Good)".
1971 - Duane Allman is killed in a motocycle accident
1977 - Meatloaf releases Bat out of Hell
1983 - Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon is the longest album on Billboard Charts at 491 weeks!
TBF, I'm happy you are all over this. Whoever gets here first and has info, more power to you... it's good knowledge for all of us!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ut_of_Hell.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by luvthelighthouse
I loved this album! According to Wiki, it's one of the best selling albums of all time.
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Originally Posted by luvthelighthouse
I am working on my 4th vinyl copy of this album and have had it on cassette and cd also. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! Every lyric (and they were GREAT) on this album was written by Roger Waters and it was engineered by Alan Parsons. The 2 singles that were released were Us And Them and Money but yet there were quite a few songs on it that still to this day get all kinds of FM airplay such as Breathe, Time, Brain Damage and Eclipse. The vocals by Roger Waters and David Gilmour are, without dispute, some of the best you will ever hear.
The lyrics to Time are still one of my favorites. Words to live by with such meaning....
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say. __________________
Willie, how true those words are. Funny. I was just thinking a few minutes ago that life is short and we should live every day as if it's our last. That's hard to do sometimes. I for one tend to let real life get in the way and don't enjoy things as much as I should.
Thanks for posting that. :thumbsup:
Brooke, it doesn't look like you're letting anything get in the way of enjoying Halloween. Love your av and sig!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brooke
Hehehe, yes, I'm trying!
Ah, to relive the summer when I turned 15...that's what I think about whenever I hear a song off this album.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prettymaid
1947
Timothy B. Schmit was born. :birthday:
1972
Genesis hits #12 in the UK with 'Foxtrot'.
1988
Kokomo (The Beach Boys) was a hit.
1964
"Baby Love" by the Supremes hits #1.
1970
The more folk-oriented `Led Zeppelin III' becomes the band’s second #1 album
1986
Roger Waters files suit to formally dissolve Pink Floyd, a legal battle that
will drag on for years without deterring David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright from recording as Pink Floyd.
1969 The Rolling Stones film Sympathy For The Devil debuts in San Francisco
1974 Elton John's The Bitch Is Back hit #2 and Bad Company's Can't Get Enough hits #5.
1974 George Harrison becomes the first Beatle to perform solo in Bristish Columbia.
1994 David Crosby is hospitalized for liver failure.
1977
An exhausted EltonJohn announces at a London concert that he is retiring from live performances, which he does – for 15 months.
1988
'American Dream', by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is released. Recorded at Neil Young´s California ranch studio, it is the second studio album by the CSNY foursome, appearing 18 years after 'Deja Vu'.
2005
Eric Clapton is made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Princess Anne.
1972 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married.
1991 Santana performs for a crowd of 350,000 (WOW) at a memorial concert in San Fransisco for Bill Graham.
OMG, I had no idea James Taylor and Carly were married at some point! I'm pretty up my my musical knowledge, but this... wow, I'm embarrassed!
1978
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are sued for one million dollars by a former bass player over royalties he claims he was due.
1983
Yes hit #5 in the US with '90125'.
1967 Aretha Franklin hits #8 with Natural Woman and Sam & Dave hit #2 with Soul Man.
1972 Rick Nelson hits #6 with Garden Party.
1941 Art Garfunkel was born.
1967 Bee Gee Robin Gibb is on a train that derails near London, killing 49 people
1987 'Tunnel of Love' becomes Bruce Springsteen's fourth #1 album, following 'The River', 'Born in the U.S.A.' and 'Live 1975-85'.
According to 'Billboard', he is the only artist to amass four #1 albums in the past ten years.
2000 The Who lend their voices to Fox-TV's "The Simpsons"
2003 Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers is found dead in his hotel room.
1971 Sweet releases their debut album, 'Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be'.
1971 Cat Stevens hits #7 with "Peace Train."
1971 Michael Jacksons first solo single, "Got to Be There" (#4 pop, #4 R&B), is released. Already he's had eight Top Forty hits with the Jackson 5, including four consecutive chart-toppers.
1972 Deep Purple, named the loudest band by 'The Guinness Book of World Records', receives a gold album for 'Machine Head'.
Ah, Reflections, Co-Co, Jeanie, Funny-Funny, Spotlight..... LOVE THEM!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
Just a snippet--hilarious stuff...
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1966 Jonny Rivers Poor Side Of Town was a hit (funny because his birthday is this weekend also)
1977 Iggy Pop releases the album Lust For Life
My favorite Cat song! :inlove:Quote:
Originally Posted by Koala
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1988 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is cleared in court of charges he plagiarized himself (his former record label thought "The Old Man Down The Road" sounded too much like "Run Through The Jungle").
1995 Queen's 'Made in Heaven,' the last album of original material featuring vocalist Freddie Mercury, is released four years after his death.
1968 John and Cynthia Lennon are divorced.
1986 Boston's Amanda hits #1.
1963-the Bee Gees first single, The Three Kisses Of Love, is released in Australia.
1966-"Paul Is Dead" was the headline.
1966-John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet at a preview of her art show.
1967-the first issue of Rolling stone magazine is published. John Lennon was on the cover.
1969-Rod Stewart releases his first album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down.
Wow! Lots of Beatle history today! The "Paul Is Dead" rumour and clues were unbelieveable! (Well, I guess to lots of people they were believeable!)
1969 'Live/Dead,' the first of many live albums by Grateful Death is released. Compiled from concerts recorded in their hometown of San Francisco between January 26th and March 2nd, 1969, it remains one of their career highlights.
1973 Art Gafunkel hits #9 with "All I Know".
1974 What Ever Gets You Through the Night (Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band) was a hit.
2004 Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) is given a "Man For Peace" prize by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Rome.
1969-Elvis Presley's last feature film Change Of Habit opens.
1975-The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior and later becomes the subject of the hit song by Gordon Lightfoot.
2002-Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty & Elvis Costello all guest on The Simpsons.