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Wow, the sheer density of illogic, ad hominem, and goalpost-moving in the comments section....

The album makes it to #3 in the UK … but stalls at #70 in the US. Never heard it? Maybe today’s a good day to give it a listen. Still trippy! (Holland: #2)

A and M Records releases The Carpenters’ debut album, “Offering”. The LP, which will only reach #150 on the Billboard 200 chart, includes the duo’s first single, a cover of The Beatles’ “Ticket To Ride”. That song would peak at #54 on the Billboard Hot 100. After The Carpenters’ break-through, the album would be...

Weirdly, I heard this earlier this evening on BBC R3, which as Brits will know, is the BBC’s high-brow / classical radio station and just about the last place you would expect to hear Mark E. Smith’s dulcet tones. Probably proof, should we need it, that we are living in the end-times. Whatever, it’s been going around in my...

When the teenagers in the audience kept screaming after The Rolling Stones finished their first song, Ed Sullivan was forced to shout “Quiet!” multiple times before he could introduce the next act. When the band closed the show with “Time Is On My Side”, Sullivan exclaimed “Come on, let them hear it!”, which caused...

Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman release the landmark album, “Bat Out Of Hell”. It would peak at #14 in the US and #9 in the UK, selling over 43 million copies worldwide. It has been certified 14X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)....

I wasn’t into Tom Waits at the time this was released. Punk rock was happening and there was no way I was going to be listening to some old guy (he was under 30 but seemed much older) singing piano ballads....

“Oh my” and a, a “Boohoo”