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Twisted Sister's "We're Not Going to Take It" is an anthem for anyone lashing out at an authority figure and ready to put up a fight. The music video features Mark Metcalf, who played Neidermeyer in the 1978 movie Animal House.
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| Queen Latifah from the movie Chicago |
January 20, 2022: The Grammy Award-winning singer and actor, Meat Loaf died at age 74.
Meat Loaf made his film debut with a memorable role in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Singer k.d. Lang was born in Canada and grew up in the town of Consort. Lang started singing as a child and began her musical career after attending Red Deer College.
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August 4 1973: Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After (The Song From The Poseidon Adventure)" hits Number 1 in the US for the first of two weeks.
The Poseidon Adventure was part of a wave of ’70s disaster movies. The film came two years after Airport and two years before The Towering Inferno.
May 28, 1983: Irene Cara's "Flashdance: What a Feeling" hit Number 1 in America.
“Flashdance (What a Feeling)” was not the first hit song from a movie soundtrack for Irene Cara, whose star was launched by the 1980 film Fame.
Kurt Cobain's meteoric celebrity certainly did "burn out." In the early 1990s, Cobain was everywhere — from T-shirts to magazine covers to the top of the Billboard charts. The Nirvana frontman was on fire.
Kurt Cobain
The level of swagger on “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” is out of control. The song is so thuddingly simple, so elemental, that it could easily turn hokey and ridiculous. Instead, the opposite happens.
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December 1, 1945: Bette Midler is born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
By the time she appeared as the final guest of Johnny Carson’s 30-year career on The Tonight Show with an emotional performance of “One For My Baby (And One More For The Road),” she was an established star of stage and screen.
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October 15, 1988: UB40 reached Number 1 with "Red Red Wine" taking over from Def Leppard's "Love Bites."
"Red, Red Wine" had been included on the Neil Diamond’s second album Just For You, released in the summer of 1967.
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