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“Hallowed Be Thy Name” … has been acclaimed as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time -wikipedia...

After “More Than A Feeling” reached number five (1976) and “Don’t Look Back” made it to number four (1978), Boston finally scored their first and only number one single with “Amanda”.

After using his guitar in court to show a jury how several hit songs have contained the same short series of notes, John Fogerty was found not guilty of plagiarizing his own record, “Run Through the Jungle” when he wrote “The Old Man Down The Road”. His former record label, Fantasy Records, had brought about the suit...

After the success of “Satisfaction”, The Rolling Stones top the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time with “Get Off of My Cloud”. Keith Richards would later say, “I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up.”

Decca releases Them’s, slightly-ahead-of-its-day single by singer-songwriter Van Morrison on the B-side of blues standard ‘Baby Please Don’ t Go’. It makes UK#10....