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Apr 24, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 Ray Parker Jr. released his first solo album The Other Woman. The title track became a #4 Hot 100 song (#2 R&B.) The follow-ups were...
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Apr 23, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 The Cure released their ninth album Wish. This was their most commercially successful album. "High" was the first single and made #1...
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Apr 22, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 Sophie B. Hawkins released her debut album Tongues and Tails. Her first single "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" was a smash making #5...
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Apr 21, 20221 min read
1987 - 35 Years Ago
1987 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their seventh album Let Me Up (I've Had Enough). Jammin' Me was the first single co-written...
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bribriny
Apr 20, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 A Flock of Seagulls released their self-titled debut album. The album track "D.N.A." won a Grammy Award in 1983 for Best Rock...
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Apr 19, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 Kym Sims released her only album Too Blind To See It. Only the title track was released in the US making #38 on the Hot 100 and #5...
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Apr 18, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 Chaka Kahn released her eighth album The Woman I Am. The album is dedicated to her friend Miles Davis who died the previous year....
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Apr 17, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 Weird Al Yankovic released his seventh album Off the Deep End. The album made #17 on the charts. Grunge, led by Nirvana was big at...
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bribriny
Apr 16, 20221 min read
1992 - 30 Years Ago
1992 Annie Lennox released her debut solo album Diva. It won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. Singles were "Why" (#34 #6 AC...
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bribriny
Apr 15, 20221 min read
1987 - 35 Years Ago
1987 Fleetwood Mac released their fourteenth album Tango in the Night. It started as a Lindsay Buckingham solo album but morphed into a...
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Apr 14, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 Van Halen released their fifth album Diver Down. Coming off a tour, David Lee Roth said they should start the year with a single,...
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bribriny
Apr 13, 20221 min read
1977 - 45 Years Ago
1977 Kenny Loggings released his debut solo album Celebrate Me Home. He worked with so many Jazz artists including Bob James, Lee...
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bribriny
Apr 12, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 John Cougar (no Mellencamp yet) released his fifth album American Fool. It spent nine weeks at #1 and was his big breakthrough. The...
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bribriny
Apr 11, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 Elton John released his sixteenth album Jump Up! In a 2010 Sirius radio special, John's lyricist, Bernie Taupin, talking about Jump...
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bribriny
Apr 10, 20221 min read
1977 - 45 Years Ago
1977 Supertramp released their fifth album Even in the Quietest Moments. "Give a Little Bit" was the first single and made #15 on the Hot...
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bribriny
Apr 9, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 Toto released their fourth album IV. If I remember correctly, we drove in a snowstorm to get this at a Gold Circle between Alliance...
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Apr 8, 20221 min read
1977 - 45 Years Ago
1977 The Clash released their debut self-titled album. It took till 1979 for the album to be released in the US which made it their...
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bribriny
Apr 7, 20221 min read
1987 - 35 Years Ago
1987 Whitesnake released their seventh self-titled album. This was the first album with their new logo. Four singles were officially...
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bribriny
Apr 6, 20221 min read
1987 - 35 Years Ago
1987 Danny Wilson released their debut album Meet Danny Wilson. The Scottish group made #23 with "Mary's Prayer." (#6 AC)
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bribriny
Apr 5, 20221 min read
1982 - 40 Years Ago
1982 The Motels released their third album All Four One. "Only the Lonely" (#9 #27 AC #10 Mainstream Rock), "Misson of Mercy" (#23...
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