October 10, 1987: Whitesnake had a Number hit in the US when "Here I Go Again" reached the top of the music chart.
Whitesnake first released “Here I Go Again” in 1982, on the album “Saints and Sinners.”
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That early version didn’t crack the charts–so, five years later, the band re-recorded the song and included the new, more amped-up version on their album “Whitesnake.”
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October 10, 1958: Eddie Cochran recorded "C'mon Everybody."
"C'mon Everybody" was Eddie Cochran's biggest hit before his death. In 1960, he died in a car accident at age 21. In 1988, this became hit once again in the UK after it was used in a Levi's jeans commercial.
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October 10, 1966: The self-titled debut album from the Monkees was released about a month after the premiere of The Monkees TV show.
The Monkees self-titled, first album topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks, the first of four straight No. 1 LPs for the group.
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote the album's No. 1 single, "Last Train to Clarksville." Boyce was inspired by the Beatles' "Paperback Writer"; he had misheard a lyric the end of that song as "take the last train."
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October 10, 1972: Jethro Tull released the single "Living in the Past" in the US.
"Living in the Past" was Jethro Tull's highest-charting single on the US Billboard and UK Singles charts.
One of the most famous aspects of this song is its nonstandard time signature: It uses 5/4. Maybe the most famous example of this unusual time signature is "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
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October 10, 1992: R.E.M. scored their second UK Number 1 album with Automatic For The People, featuring the singles "Drive," "Everybody Hurts," "Man On The Moon" and "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight."
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