June 23
TODAY IN 1980 PINK FLOYD RELEASE “COMFORTABLY NUMB” FROM THEIR CONCEPT ALBUM, ‘THE WALL’. IT IS ONE OF PINK FLOYD’S MOST POPULAR SONGS, NOTABLE FOR ITS TWO GUITAR SOLOS AND RELEASED AS A SINGLE WITH “HEY YOU” AS THE B-SIDE”.
THE ROLLING STONES RELEASE ‘EMOTIONAL RESCUE’ IN 1980, THEIR FIFTEENTH STUDIO ALBUM AND THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE SUCCESSFUL ‘SOME GIRLS’ LP. IT TOPPED THE CHARTS IN AT LEAST SIX COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE U.S., UK AND CANADA. HIT SINGLES FROM IT INCLUDE THE TITLE TRACK AND “SHE’S SO COLD”.
AND IN 2016, AFTER A TRIAL IN WHICH THE THREE LIVING MEMBERS OF LED ZEPPELIN TESTIFIED, A JURY RULES THAT THEY ARE NOT GUILTY OF PLAGIARIZING THE INTRO OF “STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN” FROM THE 1968 ‘SPIRIT’ SONG “TAURUS”
