more brave than me
more blond than you
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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.
June 7, 2003: A cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" by Krokus entered the US Top 100 singles at Number 85.
Krokus is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Switzerland.
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"Living in America" by James Brown was his first Top 40 hit in ten years on the US pop charts, and it would also be his last.
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DREAMGIRLS first opened at the Imperial Theatre, Broadway in the December 1981. The production was directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, and starred Sheryl Lee Ralph as ‘Deena Jones’, Jennifer Holliday as ‘Effie White’, Loretta Devine as ‘Lorrell Robinson.’
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“Amanda,” Boston’s only chart-topping single, came out late in 1986, but it was so perfectly ’70s that the song didn’t even have a music video.
August 30, 1980: "Whip It" by Devo debuts on the US Billboard Hot 100 single's chart.
Following their 1978 breakthrough with the Brian Eno-produced Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, Devo struggled to impress their label, Warner Brothers, with 1989's Duty Now for the Future.
Simply Red front-man Mick Hucknall wrote 'Holding Back the Years', while his former Frantic Elevators bandmate Neil Moss also has a songwriting credit.
July 5, 1986: "Your Wildest Dreams" by the Moody Blues took over at Number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
“Your Wildest Dreams” is a single from The Moody Blues’ 1986 LP “The Other Side of Life.”
Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues
June 14, 1980: Billy Joel started a six-week run at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart with "Glass Houses."
The back-to-back success of The Stranger and 52nd Street may have brought Billy Joel fame and fortune, even a certain amount of self-satisfaction, but it didn't bring him critical respect, and it didn't dull his anger.
May 17, 2017: Chris Cornell was found dead from an apparent suicide at the age of 52.
Chris Cornell, the unmistakable voice and front-man of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died overnight in Detroit at the age of 52.
May 10, 1960: Paul Hewson was born in Dublin. He shortened his nickname from Bono Vox - Latin for "good voice" - to simply Bono and fronted the band U2.
Bono was born of a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother. In 1977, he and school friends David Evans (later “the Edge”), Larry Mullen, Jr., and Adam Clayton formed a band that would become U2.
Bono
April 19, 1946: Timothy James Curry was born in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England.
Tim Curry is known for working in a diverse range of theatre, film, and television, most often portraying villainous characters. Curry rose to prominence with his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
March 29, 1986: Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus," a tribute to the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with lyrics in German, hit Number 1 in America.
Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus” lyrics are almost entirely in German, and yet you can get the basic gist even if you don’t speak the language. Certain terms transcend language: “superstar,” “rock idol,” “punk.”
March 22, 1980: Pink Floyd topped the Hot 100 with "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)" for the next four weeks.
March 15, 1963: Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Born Bret Michael Sychak on March 15, 1963, in Butler, Pennsylvania. At the age of 6, Michaels was diagnosed with diabetes. Throughout his career, he has taken insulin and measured his blood sugar levels to manage his illness.
Bret Michaels
February 15, 2004: Norah Jones had the Number 1 album in the UK, Feels Like Home.
Norah Jones’ debut Blue Note album Come Away With Me had been the archetypal word of mouth hit.
Bon Jovi‘s third album Slippery When Wet had already been to No. 1 and turned platinum, but 29 November 1986 found the band sitting pretty at the top of the US singles chart for the first time.
November 8, 1975: Elton John's Rock of the Westies became the second album in the Rock Era to debut at Number 1, following his Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Rock of the Westies is not Elton John's best album of the '70s; it’s not even the best album he released in 1975.
With her 1999 debut, On How Life Is, Gray combined a distressed velvet voice with goodly helpings of kink.
Peter Gabriel credits the "Sledgehammer's" success solely on the music video, telling Rolling Stone,
