Today in Rock History with Chris DeCarlo

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NOVEMBER 17 

TODAY IN 1971, WITH ROD STEWART’S DISTINCTIVE VOCALS, ‘FACES’ RELEASE THEIR TOP 10 U.S. ALBUM “A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND HORSE”, FEATURING THE BAND’S BIGGEST U.S. HIT, “STAY WITH ME”. 

IN 1980 JOHN LENNON RELEASED HIS SEVENTH AND FINAL STUDIO ALBUM ‘DOUBLE FANTASY’. THE ALBUM TOPPED THE CHARTS IN BOTH THE U.S. & U.K. AS WELL AS SEVEN OTHERS AROUND THE GLOBE. IT CONTAINED THE #1 HIT “(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER” AND THE LP WON A GRAMMY FOR ALBUM OF THE YEAR. 

TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS AFTER THEIR LAST #1 ALBUM WITH ‘THE LONG RUN’, THE EAGLES REACHED THE #1 SPOT ON THE ALBUM CHART IN 2007 WITH THE DOUBLE ALBUM ‘LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN’. IT WAS THE BAND’S SEVENTH STUDIO ALBUM. 

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