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“Island Girl” is a song about a sex worker, a tall Jamaican woman who works a street corner near Times Square.
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| Elton John |
“I’m In Love With My Car” is a track written by drummer Roger Taylor from Queen's 1975 album “A Night at the Opera.”
Just a cursory spin of his official solo debut is enough to spell out blockbuster even in non-music-biz minds.
It's a far cry from the gang of high school hoodlums with whom Sidney Poitier was involved 12 years ago in "The Blackboard Jungle" to the mixed group of East End London youths he teaches in James Clavell's "To Sir, With Love."
One Night of Sin is the twelfth studio album by English singer Joe Cocker, released by Capitol Records in June 1989.
The legendary "East Coast Rock 'n' Roll" group John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band began their career in 1972 and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s with the "Eddie & The Cruisers - Motion Picture Soundtrack"
"I'm Goin' Down" by Bruce Springsteen was the sixth of seven Top 10 US singles on the Born In The U.S.A. album.
Songwriter Cat Stevens penned and did a demo recording of “The First Cut Is The Deepest” in 1965.
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| Sheryl Crow |
October 24, 1978: The movie version of The Wiz, which debuted as a Broadway stage production in 1975, hits theaters.
“The Wiz,” directed by Sidney Lumet, is set in present-day New York City, and finds its locations in fanciful sets suggesting Harlem, Coney Island, school playgrounds, the subway system, and a sweatshop.
The song “Baba O’Riley”, written by Pete Townshend and performed by The Who, is often incorrectly called “Teenage Wasteland.”
"Delirious" was more than Prince's second-ever Top 10 single, and more than a hat tip to early heroes like Elvis Presley. It was another signal of his intention to take back rock for black musicians.
Written by Ric Ocasek, “My Best Friend’s Girl” was – despite presumptions to the contrary – not based on a true story.
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The old jokes goes: “I’ve just taken my wife on holiday to the Caribbean.” “Jamaica?” “No, she was happy to come.”
October 19, 1950: Patrick Cowley was born in Buffalo, New York,
An instrumental contributor to the development of dance music -- post-disco and Hi-NRG in particular -- Patrick Cowley's influence carried far beyond his early-'80s prime.
October 18, 1980: "Private Idaho" by The B-52s enters the Billboard Hot 100 single's chart.
In this song, the state of Idaho is used to represent a case of paranoia - the lyrics "get out of that state" meaning to get out of that state of mind.
First released in October 1980, Times Square, a coming-of-age film directed by Allan Moyle, was originally poised to be a punk and New Wave equivalent to Saturday Night Fever.
"Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" by Rod Stewart proved to be a massive commercial success and became his second US chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Dolly Parton's "Here You Come Again" became her first gold single. At the time of the song's release, Parton was making a big push to break into the pop world. That's certainly evident from "Here You Come Again."
Almost a year after the release of Aja, ABC Records released Josie as a single in North America. In Europe, “Josie” had served as the B side to “Deacon Blues.”
"Take the Long Way Home" is the third US single off Supertramp's 1979 album Breakfast in America. According to its composer Roger Hodgson, the song deals with how the desire to go home can go both ways:
"Where Do You Go" was written by Peter Bischof and Franz Reuther. It was first recorded by German Eurodance band La Bouche in 1995 as an album-only song from their Sweet Dreams album.
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| No Mercy |
October 11, 1980: "I’m Alright" by Kenny Loggins from the film Caddyshack reached Number 7 on the Billboard hot 110 single's chart.
It’s hard to imagine now, but Kenny Loggins wasn’t the king of the soundtracks heading into 1980.
"Church of the Poison Mind" by Culture Club was released as the lead single from their second, and most successful, album Colour by Numbers.
Based on the classic novel Le Fantôme de L’Opéra by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it.
Genius Loves Company is the last studio album Ray Charles completed before his death in June 2004. As the title acknowledges with a wink, this is a duets album, which may be a little commonplace as far as latter-day superstar albums go.
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| Ray Charles |
October 7, 2000: The highest song entering the Hot 100 single's chart, at Number 38 is "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin.
Ricky Martin's “She Bangs” was the first single from his album “Sound Loaded.”
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| Ricky Martin |
Todd Rundgren wrote his first song, “Hello It’s Me,” in 1967, one year after a painful high-school breakup.
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| Todd Rundgren |
It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was.
October 4, 1975: Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" LP hits Number 1 in the US and the UK. The album features a tribute to former band member Syd Barrett, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond."
There is no better song to remember a loved one by than the masterpiece send-off that is Pink Floyd’s “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.” Both “Wish You Were Here” and “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” are songs about death and loss, with the latter explicitly written for former band member Syd Barrett.
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October 3, 1981: Two months after MTV's debut, Blue Öyster Cult's "Burnin' For You" reaches its peak of number 40 in the US thanks to a video shot in a Los Angeles culvert.
"Burnin' for You" by Blue Öyster Cult was released as the lead single from the band's eighth studio album, Fire of Unknown Origin.
Foreigner launched a search for the fan who inspired their hit song “Juke Box Hero,” offering a V.I.P. experience for the person ... if he can be found.
