Donovan enjoyed his only US number one hit, "Sunshine Superman", which featured then Yardbird and future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. The single wouldn't be released in the UK for another five months, but when it was, it rose to number 3
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Thats what I was afraid of. Even the PipedLinkBot seems messed up since the server update to Lemm.ee
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
From what I can tell, Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are still federated but I can’t see posts from my lemmy.world community for the past week or so…any idea what’s happening?
Community: !classicrock@lemmy.world
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At a Christmas Eve taping session, Tommy James And The Shondells record "I Think We're Alone Now", which will go on to be the group's forth number one song in the US, selling over a million copies.
Cat Stevens announces that he has converted to Islam and now wants to be known as Yuself Islam. His given name was Steven Demetre Georgiou. …It would be 29 years before Yusuf performed on stage before a live US audience again, on Dec 21, 2006, as he promoted his first Pop album since leaving the music world for life as a devout Muslim. Mixing new songs with such old hits as "Oh Very Young" and "Peace Train", he sang with a gentle voice that had changed little from his heyday in the 1970s.
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Joe Strummer, lead singer for the landmark British punk band The Clash, suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 50.
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Van Halen released what would become their most successful song, "Jump", as the lead single from the album "1984". The tune would top the Billboard Hot 100 on February 25th, 1984 and stay there for five weeks. Over the years, vocalist David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics, but he usually says they were inspired by a TV news story he saw where a man was about to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
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Vocalist Ian Anderson and bassist Glenn Cornick leave the John Evans Blues Band to form Jethro Tull, naming their group after the 18th century inventor of a number of farm implements. John Evan himself will later join them as Jethro Tull's keyboard player.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 78%
Cause some rich fuck or fucks have their hand(s) so far up politician’s asses that progress is slowed by their own greed and ineptitude
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
You see, he was trying to ice the kicker by calling multiple, last minute, timeouts. But when you’re kicking from behind the goal posts you literally can’t miss. Unfortunately for Tommy Trumpetville he was a shit coach and is an even shittier politician, and as shortsighted as they come. He got into a pissing contest with the wind and lost.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
HELL F*****G YES!!! Turn this one up to 11!!!!!
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Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes", a song that he wrote after seeing a young man get angry at his date for scuffing his shoes. Even though today we more often hear Elvis Presley's version, it only made it to number 20 on the Billboard Top 100 during a five week stay, while was Perkins' original went to number 2 and stayed on the chart for 17 weeks.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
I’m from the US and it freaks me out all the damn time. If it’s supposed me feel any safer, it doesn’t — AT ALL!
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 75%
For what it’s worth, AK’s are Russian
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
I couldn’t agree more with that story. Colby is a wannabe WWF fighter without a good script or staged fights that allow his character to “win”
Hopefully we’re done with the Colby conversation unless he wins 3-4 straight against top contenders and earns his place. But I doubt he’ll shut his mouth..so, hopefully we’re just done with the Colby conversation altogether
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 92%
All laws that impact our rights should be up for a vote. Then after X number of years they should be back on the ballot to see if the public opinion has changed
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Hall And Oates overtook The Everly Brothers as the top recording duo of all time when their biggest hit, "Maneater" reached number 1 on the US singles chart. It made #6 in the UK.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Keep the pardon power, but, require approval from the senate on those selected to be pardoned.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
FWIW, At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Lets not forget, D avid Bowie releases his fourth studio album, "Hunky Dory", which would make it to #3 on the UK Official Album Chart, but miss the Billboard 200. The first single from the LP, "Changes", would fail to chart in the UK and only reached #66 on the Hot 100
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Mexico has a ban on using cartoon characters on the front of any food packages that have warning labels for high calorie, sugar, saturated fat, trans fat, or sodium content.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
The Easy Rider soundtrack is one of my favorite vinyls that I own and Steppenwolf go real hard on the first two tracks. I say goddamn, GODDAMN, the Pusher Man!!
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Welcome to the community and thanks for sharing!! Looking forward to seeing more awesome posts!
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Nope, not on TV. In JFK there was a picture of his stupid orange face and his shit eating grin up on the wall.
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
Crosspost this and come join us at !ClassicRock
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ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
621 of them as an Islander!! …not that it matters now, but it was nice while it lasted
ME5SENGER_24 10mo ago • 100%
TIL, thanks for that fun fact!