JULY 25 |
ON THIS DAY IN 1980, AC/DC RELEASE THE ICONIC ALBUM ‘BACK IN BLACK’, THE FIRST AC/DC ALBUM WITH NEW LEAD SINGER BRIAN JOHNSON, WHO REPLACED VOCALIST BON SCOTT WHO DIED 5 MONTHS EARLIER AT THE AGE OF 33. THE ALBUM HAS SOLD AN ESTIMATED 49 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE TO DATE.
IN 1965, BOB DYLAN MADE HIS “ELECTRIC DEBUT” BY PLUGGING IN FOR HIS HEADLINING SET AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL IN RHODE ISLAND. FOLK MUSIC PURISTS TRY TO BOO HIM OFF THE STAGE, WHILE THE REST OF THE AUDIENCE GIVE HIM AN ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSE.
AND TODAY IN 1973 THE DOOBIE BROTHERS’ RELEASE THE SINGLE “CHINA GROVE”. SONGWRITER TOM JOHNSTON’S LYRICS WHERE FICTIONAL, AND NOT ABOUT ANY OF THE REAL TOWNS OF CHINA GROVE IN TEXAS, NORTH CAROLINA, OR ALABAMA
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