Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon (1983) (m.youtube.com)
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare (1975) (youtu.be)
Desmond Dekker and The Aces - "Israelites" (1968) (www.youtube.com)
Jericho Jones - Black Magic (1959) (m.youtube.com)
Ramones - Pet Sematary (1986) (m.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/31/1975 (youtu.be)
Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was released as a single. It would stay on the chart for seventeen weeks, nine of them at number one and would eventually go Platinum. The song would be re-released in December, 1991 after being featured in the movie Wayne’s World and became a hit all over again.
Curved Air - Back Street Luv (1971) (www.youtube.com)
This was a fixture on the jukebox of the biker’s pub in which I mis-spent my teenage years....
Oct 30, 1971 -- Release of Pink Floyd's sixth album 'Meddle' (www.youtube.com)
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)
Harry Belafonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) (1956) (m.youtube.com)
Donovan - Season Of The Witch (1966) (m.youtube.com)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) (m.youtube.com)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash (1962) (m.youtube.com)
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Hate Myself for Loving You (1988; Official Video) (www.youtube.com)
Genesis - I Can't Dance (1991) (m.youtube.com)
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter (1992) (m.youtube.com)
The Police - Message In A Bottle (1979) (www.youtube.com)
Deep Purple - Highway Star (1972) Video HQ (www.youtube.com)
Free - Wishing Well (1979) (m.youtube.com)
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot (1980) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 10/30/1971 (youtu.be)
John Lennon had the number one album in both Great Britain and The United States with “Imagine”. It would be John’s only solo LP to sell a million copies and his most popular album until “Double Fantasy”, which went to number one shortly after his assassination on December 8, 1980.
Gary U.S. Bonds - Out Of Work (1982) (youtu.be)
America - Tin Man (1974) (youtu.be)
Small Faces - All Or Nothing (1966) (youtu.be)
The Fall - R.O.D. (1986, Peel Session version) (www.youtube.com)
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...