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Creedence Clearwater Revival released their 4th LP "Willy and The Poor Boys" on Nov. 2, 1969. It was the last of three studio albums that the band released in that year. The album features the songs "Down on the Corner", from which the album got its name, and "Fortunate Son", which is a well known […]
The Grateful Dead released their 6th LP "American Beauty" on Nov. 1, 1970. Jason Ankeny in AllMusic said that the album is the Dead's "studio masterpiece", and in comparing it to Workingman's Dead, it is "more representative of the group as a collective unit". In 2003, the album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone […]
30th Oct 1978, Blondie released the single ‘Hanging on the Telephone’, as the second single from the album Parallel Lines. Written by Jack Lee from US West Coast power pop trio The Nerves. The song gave Blondie their first UK Top 10 hit. More on Blondie: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/blondie Read it here
The Who released their LP "Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy" on Oct. 30, 1971. Every track on the album with the exception of "Boris the Spider", the one song written by John Entwistle, had been released as a single in the UK, with all except "A Legal Matter", "Magic Bus", and "The Seeker" being top […]
28th October 1972, Stevie Wonder released his 15th studio album Talking Book. The album’s first track, ‘You Are the Sunshine of My Life’, hit No.1 on the Billboard charts, then earned Wonder his first Grammy Award. The album featured a guest appearance of Jeff Beck on the track ‘Superstition’. Read it here
Neil Young released his 20th studio LP "Harvest Moon" on Oct. 27, 1992. Many of the musicians appearing on it also appeared on his 1972 album Harvest, and it is considered by many to be like a "sequel" to Harvest. Recovering from a case of tinnitus that had come about after the recording of 1990's […]
Frank Zappa released his 3rd solo album on Oct. 23, 1970. It was titled "Chunga's Revenge". The LP marks the first appearance of former Turtles members Flo & Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan) on a Zappa record. Supposedly, the title is based off a small industrial Gypsy vacuum sweeper. A "chunga" was a mutated […]
On Oct. 22, 1976, Bob Seger released his 9th LP titled "Night Moves". It was his 4th album with the Silver Bullet Band even though 4 of the 9 songs on the album used Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The album was well received by critics and gave Seger nation-wide success. Three singles were released from […]
Yes released their 5th LP, "Close to the Edge" on Sept. 13, 1972. With the success the band had with "Fragile" they began to produce extended pieces which resulted in a record that was made up of three tracks with the 18-minute title track occupying side one and "And You and I" and "Siberian Khatru" […]
Mott the Hoople released their 5th LP "All The Young Dudes" on Sept. 8, 1972. The single of the same name had been released prior to the LP. The band was ready to call it quits when David Bowie offered them the title songs (David wrote it) and offered to produce the record. The band […]