OCTOBER 17 |
TODAY IN 1977 LYNYRD SKYNYRD RELEASE THE LP ‘STREET SURVIVORS’, CONTAINING THE CLASSICS “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” & “YOU GOT THAT RIGHT”. IT WAS THE LAST ALBUM WITH VOCALIST RONNIE VAN ZANT AND GUITARIST STEVE GAINES, AS BOTH ARE KILLED ONLY THREE DAYS LATER WHEN THE BAND’S PLANE GOES DOWN EN ROUTE TO A SHOW AT LSU IN BATON ROUGE.
IN 1980 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN RELEASES HIS ONLY DOUBLE ALBUM ‘THE RIVER’. IT WAS HIS FIRST TO REACH #1 AND NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY. ALONG WITH THE TITLE TRACK IT ALSO FEATURED THE SONGS “HUNGRY HEART” & “CADILLAC RANCH”.
AND IN 1989 BILLY JOEL RELEASES HIS ELEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM, ‘STORM FRONT’. THE LP WOULD TOP THE BILLBOARD 200 CHART IN AMERICA, SELL OVER FOUR MILLION COPIES, AND INCLUDED THE HIT “WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE”
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