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more blond than you
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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.
Reviewing for The Village Voice in 1972, Robert Christgau said of Paul Simon's self-titled LP, "this is the only thing in the universe to make me positively happy in the first two weeks of February 1972." .
Closer to Home, Grand Funk's third album, was the record that really broke them through to the commercially successful level of metal masters such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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May 24,1969: The Who peaked in Billboard's Top 20, at Number 19, with "Pinball Wizard."
“Pinball Wizard” is one of those very special pieces of music: a great rock song, but at the same time a classic pop song.
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December 15, 1990: Bette Midler reached Number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart with "From a Distance."
"From a Distance" was written in 1985 by American singer-songwriter Julie Gold. Gold was working as a secretary at the time for HBO and writing songs in her free time.
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July 19, 1975: Sweet powered up the chart from Number 60 to 49 with "Ballroom Blitz."
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Don’t Dream It’s Over is truly one of Neil Finn’s greatest penned songs.
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Mahogany was the story of Tracy Chambers, a secretary at a Chicago department store who dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
The Beatles or "The White album" as it became better known was released on 22nd November, 1968 on the fifth anniversary of their second album, With The Beatles.
The Miami Pop Festival was the name of two unrelated music festivals that took place in May and December 1968 at Gulfstream Park, a horse racing track in Hallandale, Florida (now called Hallandale Beach), just north of Miami.
