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06/04/2024

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On this day in 1981, the INXS single “The Loved One” debuted on the Australian charts at #80 (April 6)

The original 1966 version by Australian band The Loved Ones went to #2 on the charts, and the INXS version fifteen years later eventually peaked at #20 on May 11, 1981.

The song was always an INXS live show favourite, and was re-recorded by the band for their 1987 LP “Kick”.

In 2001 "The Loved One" (original version) was selected as #6 on the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)'s list of Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Great song, and this is a cool version from Countdown in 1981…

https://youtu.be/X0fi1hL4h-k

23/03/2024

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On this day in 1991, the R.E.M. album “Out Of Time” went to #1 on the UK Albums Chart (March 23)

With “Out of Time”, R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act…

The record topped the album sales charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom, spending 109 weeks on US Billboard 200 and enjoying two separate spells at #1, and spending 183 weeks on the UK charts.

Propelled by the singles “Losing My Religion” and “Shiny Happy People”, the album was a true worldwide hit, also going to #1 in the Netherlands, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Austria, #2 in Germany, #3 in New Zealand and Switzerland, #4 in Australia, Norway and Spain, #6 in Belgium, and #7 in Sweden.

The album won three Grammy Awards in 1992: one as Best Alternative Music Album, and two for the first single, "Losing My Religion” and “Near Wild Heaven”.

The B52’s Kate Pierson features on “Shiny Happy People”.

Click on the link below to watch “Losing My Religion”:

https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg

23/03/2024

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On this day in 1976, the Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody” went to #1 on the Australian charts (March 22)

One of the most momentous songs in rock history, “Bohemian Rhapsody” broke all the rules; it was six minutes long; it had an operatic section; their own record company didn’t even want to release it as a single!

But it went on to be one of the most successful songs in history.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" topped the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and had sold more than a million copies by the end of January 1976.

In 1991, after Mercury's death, it topped the charts for another five weeks, eventually becoming the UK's third best-selling single of all time.
It is also the only song to reach the UK Christmas number one twice by the same artist.

It also topped the charts in countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the Netherlands, and sold over six million copies worldwide.

In the US, the song peaked at #9 in 1976, but reached a new peak of #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 after being used in the film “Wayne's World” (1992).

In 2018, the release of Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” brought the song renewed popularity and chart success worldwide.

In March 2021 it was certified Diamond in the US for combined digital sales and streams equal to 10 million units.

Rolling Stone stated that its influence "cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air."

The Guardian named its music video one of the 50 key events in rock music history, helping make videos a critical tool in music marketing.

In 2004, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

It has appeared in numerous polls of the greatest songs in popular music, including a ranking at #17 on Rolling Stone's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Mercury's vocal performance was chosen as the greatest in rock history by readers of Rolling Stone.

In December 2018, it became the most streamed song from the 20th century, and it had been downloaded or streamed over 1.6 billion times…

A true rock classic…

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/fJ9rUzIMcZQ

21/03/2024

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On this day in 1978, the Eric Clapton single “Lay Down Sally” debuted on the Australian charts at #97 (March 20)

The song from his fifth full-length studio album “Slowhand” is in the style of one of his favorite songwriters, the Oklahoma musician J.J. Cale.

The B-side of the single was actually Clapton's cover of Cale's song "Co***ne."

Clapton also attributed other members of his band – co-songwriter George Terry, Carl Radle, Jamie Oldaker and others – as influencing the song, saying “"It's as close as I can get, being English, but the band being a Tulsa band, they play like that naturally.”

Marcy Levy, one of Clapton's backup singers was also a co-songwriter, and sang on the track with Yvonne Elliman (of “If I Can’t Have You” fame).

Levy toured with Bob Seger before joining Clapton's band in 1973, and in 1988, using the name Marcella Detroit, Levy joined former Bananarama singer Siobhan Fahey to form Shakespears Sister; whose song "Stay" was #1 in the UK for eight weeks in 1992.

Marcy Levy told Q magazine how this song came about:
“We were in the studio one day and he [Clapton] said, 'I want to write this song called 'Lay Down Sally.'' So I went into the corner and came up with the melody.

At first it had more of a Little Feat groove. But we worked at it all day and eventually Eric hit on the rhythm and I played keyboards, and we recorded the track. Then Eric said, 'Can you write some lyrics at home tonight?'
So I did, and we recorded the vocals the next day."

Click on the link below to watch Clapton do it live with Mark Knopfler:

https://youtu.be/uqELgVWeVGM

21/03/2024

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On this day in 1978, the J.J. Cale single “Co***ne” debuted on the Australian charts at #91 (March 20)

The song from his 1976 album “Troubadour” includes “Co***ne,” was the B-side to Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally” the following year; a record that debuted for Clapton on the Australian charts the same day as this one.

Clapton describes it as an anti-drug song, and called the song "quite cleverly anti-co***ne", saying:

“It's no good to write a deliberate anti-drug song and hope that it will catch. Because the general thing is that people will be upset by that. It would disturb them to have someone else shoving something down their throat.

So the best thing to do is offer something that seems ambiguous—that on study or on reflection actually can be seen to be "anti"—which the song "Co***ne" is actually an anti-co***ne song.

If you study it or look at it with a little bit of thought ... from a distance ... or as it goes by ... it just sounds like a song about co***ne.
But actually, it is quite cleverly anti-co***ne.”

The original J.J. Cale version went all the way to #1 in New Zealand, #2 in Switzerland, #5 in Austria, #10 in Sweden, #22 in Germany, and #45 in Australia.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/ROpjJ86VhJQ

20/03/2024

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On this day in 1978, the Billy Joel LP “The Stranger” debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #36 (March 19)

Before “The Stranger”, Billy Joel was on the verge of being dropped by his record label Columbia Records.
After the unexpected success of Joel's second album “Piano Man”, his subsequent albums were commercially disappointing.

“The Stranger” was his critical and commercial breakthrough, sparking a run of successful albums all the way through to 1993’s “River of Dreams”.

The recording sessions for “The Stranger”, described by Joel as "a blast" to be a part of, took place across the short span of three weeks in between July and August 1977.

Four singles were released in the US, all of which became Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts: "Just the Way You Are" ( #3), "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", "She's Always a Woman" (both #17), and "Only the Good Die Young" ( #24).

On the charts, “The Stranger” peaked at #2 in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, #3 in Japan, #15 in France, and #24 in the UK.

The album won two awards at the 1978 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Just the Way You Are".

It remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date, and surpassed Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water to become Columbia's best-selling album release.

Rolling Stone ranked The Stranger at #169 on its 2020 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Click on the link below to watch a young Billy do a great live version of “Just The Way You Are”:

https://youtu.be/GkuJJsApACc?si=y_8YMdO_g7ONbg1-

18/03/2024

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On this day in 1989, the Madonna single “Like a Prayer” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #38 (March 18)

The song from her 1989 fourth studio album of the same name is a pop rock and gospel song that also incorporates elements of funk.

In Madonna’s words:

"'Like a Prayer' is a very important song to me.
I felt the impact that it was going to make. That song means a lot more to me than 'Like a Virgin'. I wrote it and it's from my heart.
It's a very spiritual song.

I think I was much more spiritually in touch with the power of words and music by the time I started recording the song and the album."

It was Madonna's seventh #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, topping the US chart for three consecutive weeks, and also topping the charts in many other countries, including Australia, Brazil, the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Mexico, Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, Spain and the UK.

For NME's "The Greatest Pop Songs In History" list in 2011, the track was placed at #3.

In 2021, Rolling Stone listed "Like a Prayer" as one of the "500 Best Songs of All Time", at #55.

In 2023, celebrating the 65th anniversary of Billboard Hot 100, the staff of the magazine ranked "Like a Prayer" as the sixth best pop song that had appeared in the chart since 1958.

The highly controversial accompanying music video for "Like a Prayer" was directed by Mary Lambert, and at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, it won the Viewer's Choice Award.

The Vatican condemned the video, while family and religious groups protested against its broadcast.

The clip was also ranked at #20 on Rolling Stone's "The 100 Top Music Videos", and at #2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Videos.

In a 2011 poll by Billboard, the video for "Like a Prayer" was voted the second-best music video of the 1980s, behind only Michael Jackson's "Thriller".

Click on the link below to watch it:

https://youtu.be/79fzeNUqQbQ