On this day in 1980: The Police became the first Western pop group to play in Bombay, India in over ten years when they played a one off gig in the city. On this day in 1983: Duran Duran went to #1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Is There Something I Should Know’. Their […]
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This Day In Music, March 25th
On this day in 1983: Motown Records celebrated its 25th anniversary with a concert in Pasadena, featuring; The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha Reeves, Jr. Walker, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Jackson 5. Michael Jackson would introduce his “moonwalk” dance at the concert while performing ‘Billie Jean.” On […]
This Day In Music, March 24th
On this day in 1985: ‘Easy Lover’ by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins was at #1 on the UK singles chart. Bailey was a former vocalist with Earth, Wind & Fire. Phil Collins produced, drummed and sang on the track. ‘Easy Lover’ won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in a Video. Also on this […]
This Day In Music, March 23rd
On this day in 1985: Former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man John Fogerty went to #1 on the U.S. album chart with his third solo studio album ‘Centerfield.’ This was Fogerty’s first album in nine years after he decided to take a long break from the music business because of legal battles with his record company. […]
This Day In Music, March 22nd
On this day in 1980: Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)’ started a four week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart. The track, which was the group’s only U.S. chart topper, was also a #1 in the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and in many other countries around the world. Pink Floyd received a […]
This Day In Music, March 21st
On this day in 1981: REO Speedwagon went to #1 on the U.S. singles chart with ‘Keep On Loving You’, the group’s first top 40 hit and first #1 in the U.S. It would spend one week in the top spot. Kevin Cronin stated that he wrote “Keep On Loving You” as a more traditional […]
This Day In Music, March 20th
On this day in 1980: 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York and demanded to see either Jackson Browne or the Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation. He gave him-self up when told that neither act was in […]
This Day In Music, March 19th
On this day in 1982: Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and former Quiet Riot member Randy Rhoads was killed when the plane he was riding in crashed. After driving much of the night, the band had stopped near a small airstrip. The tour bus driver, Andrew Aycock, talked the band’s keyboardist, Don Airey, into taking a test […]
This Day In Music, March 18th
On this day in 1989: Debbie Gibson was starting her third and final week at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Lost In Your Eyes.” “Lost in Your Eyes” was the sixth single from American singer-songwriter, Debbie Gibson, and the first from her second album, ‘Electric Youth’. The song was written by Gibson in late 1987 […]
This Day In Music, March 17th
On this day in 1984: Van Halen were starting their fourth of five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Jump.” It would go on to be ranked the #6 song for the entire year of 1984 and would be ranked the #42 song of the entire 1980s decade by Billboard Magazine. “Girls […]