On This Day…
2016 – Adele tops the US Album charts with her 3rd studio album – 25
2010 – singer-songwriter-guitarist Doug Fieger dies after a lengthy battle with cancer. He is best known for singing and co-writing the smash 1979 hit – My Sharona – as a member of The Knack
2002 – Mick Tucker, the drummer and backing vocalist for the glam rock band – Sweet – died of leukemia
1992 – The movie – Wayne’s World – debuts in the states. Alice Cooper and Meat Loaf made appearances. Queens – Bohemian Rhapsody – is featured in the film and rockets back to the charts some 20 years after it’s initial release.
1987 – Bon Jovi grabs the #1 spot on the singles chart with – Livin’ On A Prayer – It would stay there for 4 weeks.
1987 – George Strait‘s 7th studio album – Ocean Front Property – is the first to debut at the top of the Billboard Top Country Album Chart
1977 – singer-songwriter Janis Ian receives 461 Valentine’s day cards in response to the lyrics of her song – At Seventeen – said she had never received any. To those of us who knew the pain… of Valentines that never came…
1972 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend the week co-hosting TV’s – The Mike Douglas Show
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