FEBRUARY 2
ON THIS DAY IN 1976, LYNYRD SKYNYRD RELEASE THEIR FOURTH ALBUM ‘GIMME BACK MY BULLETS’. IT FOLLOWS ‘NUTHIN’ FANCY’ AND PRECEDED ‘STREET SURVIVORS’, WHICH WAS THEIR LAST RELEASE BEFORE A FATAL PLANE CRASH ENDS THE ORIGINAL LINEUP.
TODAY IN 1985 FOREIGNER’S “I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS”, FROM THEIR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘AGENT PROVOCATEUR’, BEGINS A TWO-WEEK RUN AT #1.
AND REO SPEEDWAGON’S ALBUM HI INFIDELITY BECAME THE BIGGEST‑SELLING ALBUM OF 1981 IN THE UNITED STATES AND WAS CERTIFIED MULTI‑PLATINUM, ULTIMATELY SURPASSING SEVEN MILLION COPIES SOLD BY THE END OF THE YEAR AND GOING ON TO EXCEED TEN MILLION U.S. SALES OVERALL.