Today in Rock History with Chris DeCarlo

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OCTOBER 22 

TODAY IN 1969 ‘LED ZEPPELIN II’ WAS RELEASED. IT REACHED NO.1 IN BOTH THE U.K. AND U.S., GOING ON TO SELL OVER 12 MILLION COPIES IN THE U.S. ALONE. IT FEATURED THE EPIC LED ZEPPELIN CLASSIC “WHOLE LOTTA LOVE”, “RAMBLE ON” AND SEVERAL OTHER WELL-KNOWN TRACKS. 

IN 1976 BOB SEGER RELEASED HIS NINTH AND BREAKTHROUGH STUDIO ALBUM ‘NIGHT MOVES’. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST ALBUM TO CREDIT HIS BACKING ‘SILVER BULLET BAND’ AND INCLUDED THE TITLE TRACK, “ROCK AND ROLL NEVER FORGETS”, “THE FIRE DOWN BELOW” AND “MAINSTREET”. 

AND IN 1988 ‘U2’ SCORED THEIR FOURTH U.K. NO.1 ALBUM WITH THE DOUBLE SET AND FILM SOUNDTRACK ‘RATTLE AND HUM’, FEATURING THEIR FIRST U.K. NO.1 SINGLE “DESIRE”. 

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