more brave than me
more blond than you
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December 26, 1986: The Beastie Boys started their Licensed To Ill tour with a show at The Ritz in New York City.
Perhaps Licensed to Ill was inevitable -- a white group blending rock and rap, giving them the first number one album in hip-hop history.
November 21, 1981: Olivia Newton-John takes over the top of the US Hot 100 chart with "Physical."
“Physical” was a phenomenon. The song’s 10-week run at #1 tied a record previously set four years earlier by Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life.”
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October 16, 1976: Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life hits number 1on the album charts.
The album "Songs in the Key of Life," — two LPs plus an additional four-song EP — was the culmination of a historic period of creativity, a concentrated burst of music matched only by a handful of artists.
There are songs that are better, there are songs that are worse, there are songs that’ll become your favorites and others you’ll probably lift the needle for when their time is due. But in the end, Exile on Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone ready-mades to fill them.
