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| 2000 | Longtime Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman announces his departure from the veteran heavy metal group. Friedman will be replaced by Al Pitrelli, who has previously played with Asia, Alice Cooper, and Savatage. |
| 2000 | Melissa Etheridge ends speculation about the paternity of the children the rock star shares with partner Julie Cypher, when she announces that David Crosby is the children's father. |
| 1985 | Ted Nugent appears on TV's "Miami Vice.'' |
| 1978 | Bluesman Howlin' Wolf dies in a hospital near Chicago following brain surgery. His biggest hit is the 1951 song "How Many More Years,'' which featured Ike Turner on piano. |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley starts his first recording session for RCA. The result includes "Heartbreak Hotel.'' |
| 1952 | Pat Benatar (Pat Andrzejewski) is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her first six albums all go platinum, selling more than 1 million copies. The 1981 album "Precious Time'' tops Billboard's pop chart for one week. |
| 1948 | Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is born in Passaic, N.J. The pop/jazz group has three top 10 albums, including "Aja,'' which goes to No. 3 on Billboard's pop chart. |
| 1945 | Roderick (Rod) Stewart is born in London. His biggest hit, "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright),'' is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 for eight weeks. |
| 1939 | Scott McKenzie (Philip Blondheim) is born in Jacksonville, Fla. His biggest hit is the 1967 song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),'' which reaches No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100. He writes the Beach Boys' 1988 No. 1 hit, "Kokomo.'' |
Today's band was one of those U.K. groups of the '80s that scored one fluke hit in the U.S. despite a somewhat lengthy and more successful run in their homeland. They released a number of albums that, while regularly inconsistent, featured scattered moments that helped define the type of big-sounding guitar rock -- prone to chest-beating bombast -- that set them apart from fellow Liverpool-based groups like Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, and (somewhat less so) Wah!
The group formed in 1980. Although they released a low-key six-song cassette that was sold at Liverpool's Probe Records, they didn't make their official debut until October 1982, when their "Nirvana" single was issued. It went up to number 15 on the U.K. chart, prompting Beggars Banquet subsidiary Situation 2 to rope in the group.
Today's song selection would provide the band with their greatest commercial standing in the U.S. Released in 1984 via Beggars Banquet's stateside arrangement with Arista, the powers that were in the U.S. had the title of the song switched around. The song remained on the Hot 100 chart for four weeks and peaked at number 37. The song didn't fare quite as well in the U.K.; it stalled at number 53. Nonetheless, the popularity of the song in the U.S. helped catapult the group's self-titled debut album to number 40 on the album chart. A prolific succession of albums helped maintain a cult of numerous followers, many of whom were on board for impassioned songwriting. Each album featured its own share of throwaway material and, by the time of its creative swan song, the group was dabbling in an over-ambitious lost-map mixture of soul, funk, blooze, and rock.
Even after this, a number of personnel changes occurred. By the time 1990's release was recorded, the chief songwriter was supported by some fine musicians that had been attracted to the band by his songwriting prowess. Despite his resilience, the album went nowhere and the group was eventually laid to rest. The leader began a solo career that followed the folk-rock leanings that played an increasing role throughout his band's life span.
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