Today in Rock History with Chris DeCarlo

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NOVEMBER 13 

DESPITE BEING BANNED FROM MANY RADIO STATION PLAYLISTS BECAUSE OF ITS SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE LYRICS, ROD STEWART’S “TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT” STARTED EIGHT CONSECUTIVE WEEKS AT #1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 SINGLES CHART IN 1976.  

TODAY IN 1982 AUSTRALIAN BAND ‘MEN AT WORK’ BEGAN AN INCREDIBLE 15- WEEK RUN AT NO. 1 ON THE U.S. ALBUM CHART WITH THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’, WHICH CONTAINED THE HITS “WHO CAN IT BE NOW” AND “DOWN UNDER”.  

AND IN 1990 AT THE ‘OFF-RAMP CAFE’ IN SEATTLE, ‘TEMPLE OF THE DOG’, COMPRISED OF MEMBERS FROM SOUNDGARDEN AND WHAT WOULD BECOME PEARL JAM PLAY THEIR ONLY FULL ONE-HOUR SHOW 

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