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June 22, 1969: Judy Garland died of a barbiturate overdose aged 47.
Judy Garland signed a movie contract with MGM at the age of 13. In 1939, she scored one of her greatest on-screen successes with The Wizard of Oz. In 1950, MGM dropped her from her contract.
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"It's Been Awhile" was a monster hit for Staind, spending 20 weeks atop Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
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October 25, 1986: Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" hit Number 1 in America.
"True Colors" was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, who also wrote Madonna's "Like A Virgin," Heart's "Alone," and Lauper's "I Drove All Night."
October 14, 2003: Rod Stewart released As Time Goes By: the Great American Songbook, Volume II.
Thanks to Clive Davis, Rod Stewart found a career revival in 2002 with It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook.
July 28, 1984: Cyndi Lauper moved in the Top 40 section of Billboard's Hot 100 with "She Bop."
"She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper dealt with masturbation. Lauper told The Howard Stern Show she recorded the vocals while nude.
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May 18, 2001: The movie Shrek was released.
Almost all of the 12 songs on the soundtrack to Shrek feature prominently in the film.
March 21, 1981: Loverboy had their first American Top 40 hit when "Turn Me Loose" reached Number 40 on that chart.
"Turn Me Loose" was the first charting single for Loverboy, their breakout hit, and a single from their debut album all at once.
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January 10, 2016: David Bowie died at age 69 after an 18-month battle with liver cancer.
David Bowie has died many deaths yet he is still with us. He is popular music’s ultimate Lazarus:
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December 17, 1971: David Bowie released his fourth album, Hunky Dory, which opens with the song "Changes."
David Bowie was already four years and four albums into his career when he issued Hunky Dory, the first record to help secure his legend. He had been inching closer to this moment with each release, but with Hunky Dory everything that followed pretty much started here.
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Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote the song after the their band, the Tourists, had broken up and they formed Eurythmics. Although the two of them also broke up as a couple, they continued to work together.
Cyndi Lauper didn’t plan to write “Time after Time” at all. The New York-raised singer had already left the recording studio after — she thought — completing her first solo album, She’s So Unusual.
