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This day in music.....Feb. 4th

1965, The Righteous Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Phil Spector song 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'. Also a US No.1 at the same time. In 1999 the PRS announced that it was the most played song of the 20th Century.



1977, Fleetwood Mac released 'Rumours'. The songs 'Go Your Own Way', 'Don't Stop', 'Dreams', and 'You Make Loving Fun' were released as singles. Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release; along with winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, the record has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.



1984, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble kicked off their 114-date 'Couldn't Stand the Weather tour' at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.




1948, Born on this day, Alice Cooper, (Vincent Furnier), singer, who formed the Earwigs, and then the Alice Cooper Band, who had the 1972 UK No.1 & US No.7 single 'School's Out'. Copper is now also a radio presenter.



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This day in music......Feb. 5th

1957, 5,000 fans greeted Bill Haley when he arrived from New York on the liner Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, for his debut UK concert tour. Haley was the first American rock artist to tour the UK.



1971, Black Sabbath started recording what would be their third album, 'Master Of Reality' at Island Studios in London, England. Released in July of this year, it is sometimes noted as the first stoner rock album. Guitarist Tony Iommi, decided to down tune his guitar down three semi-tones, Geezer Butler also down tuned his bass guitar to match Iommi. The result was a noticeably 'darker' sound that almost two decades later would prove hugely influential on at least three of the biggest grunge acts, namely Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, and Nirvana.



1983, Def Leppard's album 'Pyromania', started a 92 week run on the US charts, it never reached No.1 but sold over 6 million copies in the US alone.



1948, Born on this day, David Denny, guitarist with the Steve Miller Band who had the 1974 US No.1 & 1990 UK No.1 single 'The Joker'.



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Really enjoyed the "this day in music" facts, this week...........very cool .

In a mood for some tunes, some soft music, mellow..........been turned on to Bonnie Raitt, whom I never listened to before, always thought she was pure country, and I was wrong, but, as for tonights mood, more a somber, mellow mood...........

chose the cool vid, for this one..........
there's a couple I like by Everlast, this vid, from End of days, is cool........

Not one people often play by Everlast, but one I like........

About 2 months before my dad passed, he bought me every Cowboy Junkies disc there was, because I happened to e mail a song to him, one day, when I missed him........

I'd only heard the one nice song, that I'd sent him, but that was all it took, and he went nuts, with rthe discs........ ...so, next three songs, posted for him, the last, and best, for reasons that need no "splainin'





They are so good live...........


Last, and best.......the one I sent him that needs no explanations........




now, I go back and listen to ' em........

Aces wrote:

OHHH.a good one !!

Here.I get into this one........

damn.......good songs, i need time to LISTEN, before I add anymore......... : )

I know I post a lot of Maynard, ....I cant help it, he really has talent, and........someone today, fed me up, farther than imaginable, so , for that person........

The Outsider, live and funky as hell

LOL.....Pantera / cowboy junkies, we are nothing if not a deversified group.......

nights like this, I wish I still drank booze..........

This day in music......Feb. 6th

1982, The J Geils Band started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Centrefold', the bands only US No.1. A No.3 hit in the UK. The bands album 'Freeze- Frame' started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart on the same day.



1990, Over 200 women filed court actions against Chuck Berry after it was alleged that he had been secretly filming them in the toilets of the restaurant he owned.





1945, Born on this day, Bob Marley, singer / songwriter and guitarist who had the 1981 UK No.8 single with ‘No Woman No Cry’, plus over ten other UK Top 40 singles and the 1976 US No.8 & UK No. 15 album ‘Rastaman Vibration’. Marley died of cancer on May 11th 1981. The 1984 ‘Best Of’ album spent 330 weeks on the UK chart. In 1990, February 6th was proclaimed a national holiday in Jamaica to commemorate his birth. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.



1962, Born on this day, Axl Rose, (born William Bruce Rose), singer with Guns N' Roses who had the 1987 US No.1 album 'Appetite For Destruction' which spent 158 week's on the UK chart and the 1988 US No.1 & 1989 UK No.6 single 'Sweet Child O' Mine'. Finally released the long delayed album 'Chinese Democracy' album in 2008 which had been recorded over many years.



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