JANUARY 23
ON THIS DAY IN 1976, DAVID BOWIE RELEASED HIS TENTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘STATION TO STATION’, WHICH WAS THE VEHICLE FOR HIS LAST GREAT CHARACTER, THE ‘THIN WHITE DUKE’ AND CONTAINED THE TRACKS “GOLDEN YEARS” AND “TVC 15”.
TODAY IN 1982, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND APPEARED ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, PLAYING “MIDNIGHT RIDER”, AND “SOUTHBOUND”; IT WAS TO BE THEIR LAST PERFORMANCE UNTIL 1986
AND IN 2000, SANTANA STARTED A THREE WEEK RUN AT NUMBER ONE ON THE US ALBUM CHART WITH ‘SUPERNATURAL’, FEATURING THE HIT “SMOOTH”. IT WENT ON TO WIN EIGHT GRAMMY AWARDS AND SPEND A TOTAL OF NINE WEEKS ATOP THE CHARTS.
