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May 31, 1999: VH1's Behind the Music began airing nightly. The premier show was The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music.
Metallica band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett wrote "Nothing Else Matters." Hetfield cited the band's constant touring as an inspiration for this song.
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| Metallica |
Whoopi Goldberg stars in Sister Act as Deloris Wilson, a lounge singer forced to join a convent after being placed in a witness protection program. The Reverend Mother orders Deloris to join the struggling choir.
May 28, 1982: "Rocky III" hit theaters, featuring a new theme song written around a critical line of dialogue in the film: "Eye of the Tiger." Sylvester Stallone asked the upstart Chicago band Survivor to write and record the song when he couldn't get permission to use the Queen song "Another One Bites The Dust."
The King of Pop and the daughter of Elvis Presley briefly met in the 1970s at a concert in Las Vegas but did not get to know each other until nearly two decades later. In the summer of 1993, the “Thriller” singer was accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy named Jordan Chandler, which he vehemently denied. He turned to Lisa Marie for support amid the investigation and proposed to her over the phone later that year.
"Midnight Cowboy" is the only film rated X or NC-17 to win an Oscar for Best Picture. A gritty, bleak look at the underbelly of urban American life, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight's performances make it difficult to turn away.
May 24, 1975: Supertramp first Billboard Hot 100 single, "Bloody Well Right," peaked at Number 35 after ten weeks on the chart. It failed to chart in the UK.
One theory on Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right" performance in their homeland is that Brits were still offended by the adjective "bloody" in 1975. These days it is considered a mild expletive at best worldwide. The track answers the previous song on the album, "School."
On Yourself or Someone Like You, Matchbox Twenty's ability to craft sturdy, mainstream rock was overshadowed by their reliance on loud guitars, colorless production, and bombastic vocalizing.
Quentin Tarantino stated the soundtrack for American Graffiti influenced his music choices in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He "went nuts. It had Wolfman Jack DJ stuff filtered through. That was probably my first soundtrack album."
May 20, 1998: A remake of the movie Godzilla was released in the US. The Wallflowers' cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" was used on the soundtrack.
May 19, 1975: Elton John made history when his ninth album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, entered Billboard's Hot 200 Albums at Number 1. It only had one huge hit; "Someone Saved My Life Tonight."
Chris Cornell was born in Seattle, which put him in the perfect position for the grunge music scene that sprung up there in the '80s. Cornell formed Soundgarden with guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto in 1984.
In the film Purple Rain, "When Doves Cry" plays under a montage after Prince's character loses his girl to his rival.
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle centers around the Sex Pistols and their manager Malcolm McLaren. The movie's title was inspired by an article written by Skiffle musician Lonnie Donegan in the 1950s titled "Rock and Roll - It's a Swindle."
May 14, 1988: INXS entered Billboard's Hot 100 on the way to Number 3 with "New Sensation."
Like all the original tracks on Kick, "New Sensation" was written by INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss, who played several instruments in the group.
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| INXS 1988 |
May 12, 1973: Led Zeppelin started a three-week run at Number 1 on the US album chart with their fifth album, Houses Of The Holy.
Houses Of The Holy follows the same basic pattern as Led Zeppelin IV, but the approach is looser and more relaxed. Jimmy Page's riffs rely on ringing, folky hooks as much as they do on thundering blues-rock, giving the album a lighter, more open atmosphere.
"Without Me" was Eminem's first single since his Marshall Mathers LP. He explains in the song that everything was dull and empty with him away, but he was now here to give people something to talk about.
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May 10, 2008: "Leavin'," the lead single from Jesse McCartney's album Departure, debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 at Number 14 with "Leavin'." It peaked at 10.
The soundtrack for the 2001 film adaptation of Moulin Rouge! includes "Lady Marmalade," made famous in the 1970s by the girl group Labelle. The song contains the sexually suggestive lyric "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" which translates to "Do you want to sleep with me tonight?"
Get a Grip became Aerosmith's best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies.
Written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, "Don't Turn Around" was originally recorded by Tina Turner and released as the B-side to her 1986 hit single "Typical Male."
May 6, 1995: "I Believe" by Blessid Union Of Souls peaked at Number 8 in the US.
Blessid Union Of Souls' frontman Eliot Sloan wrote "I Believe" after his girlfriend's father coerced her into breaking up with him by threatening to cut off her college tuition.
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| Blessid Union Of Souls |
Paul Simon's second post-Garfunkel effort, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, is bookmarked by two of his top pop hits with a sandwich of soft-rock songs in between. It was both a commercial and critical success and firmly established Simon as a top-notch solo artist.
May 4, 1991: Cher scored her first solo UK Number 1 with a cover of Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song." Her first UK was "I Got You Babe" with Sonny in 1965.
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| Cher 1991 |
A concept album, Operation: Mindcrime was a quantum leap from the band's 1986 album Rage for Order. They told a story involving conspiracy theorists, assassins, drugs, a corrupt priest, and several clever plot twists.
Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. It also took the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single.
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| Whitney Houston |
