MARCH 21
ALTHOUGH THEY HAD BEEN MAKING RECORDS FOR A DECADE, REO SPEEDWAGON ENJOYED THEIR FIRST TASTE OF SUCCESS WHEN “KEEP ON LOVING YOU” BECAME THE TOP TUNE IN THE U.S. TODAY IN 1981.
IN 1987 U2 TOPPED THE UK ALBUM CHARTS FOR A THIRD TIME WITH ’THE JOSHUA TREE’ FEATURING THE SINGLES “WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME” & “I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR”. THE ALBUM REACHED NUMBER ONE IN OVER 20 COUNTRIES AND IS ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING ALBUMS WORLDWIDE.
SINGER-SONGWRITER, THE LATE EDWARD MAHONEY, BETTER KNOWN BY HIS STAGE NAME EDDIE MONEY, WAS BORN TODAY IN BROOKLYN IN 1949.