February 23, 2000: Santana won eight Grammy Awards for their album Supernatural, tying Michael Jackson's record.
On February 23rd, 2000, Santana claimed eight trophies, including the highly coveted Record of the Year and Album of the Year awards, for his blockbuster Supernatural LP.
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The album, which came out the previous year, quickly became a Number One hit and has since been certified 15 times platinum.
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February 23, 1974: Aretha Franklin became the first artist to have songs peak at each of the first 10 spots on the Hot 100 when "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" fills in the gap at Number 3.
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"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single. With this peak at number three, Franklin became the first artist in the history of the Hot 100 chart to have a hit song peak at each position from one to ten on the chart.
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February 23, 1980: Queen took over the top spot on the Billboard chart for the next four weeks with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."
When inspiration strikes, sometimes it's best not to overthink things. Queen singer Freddie Mercury discovered that while writing what would become the band's first No. 1 single in the U.S.
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“'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or 10 minutes," Mercury said in a 1981 interview with Melody Maker. "I did that on the guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing, because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords."
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February 23, 1983: A collection of former studio musicians who called themselves Toto won Album Of The Year for "Toto IV" and Record Of The Year for "Rosanna" at the 25th Grammy Awards.
In 1982 the members of Toto discovered an angel in their midst. Her name was Rosanna Arquette.
She was a 20-something actress whose career was still three years away from pay dirt in 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan, and whose fledgling relationship with Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro meant she occasionally dropped off beers as the band recorded what would become Toto IV.
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February 23, 1991: Whitney Houston owned the Number 1 spot on the chart with "All the Man That I Need" for the next two weeks.
"All the Man That I Need" was originally written in 1981, by Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore. They had Linda Clifford in mind when they wrote the song. They had previously written the song "Red Light" from Fame for her in 1980.
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Later, Pitchford revealed that although different versions of the song were made, no one was really scoring a major success with it.
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