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TODAY IN 1981, STYX REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART WITH THEIR CONCEPT ALBUM ‘PARADISE THEATER’ WHICH INCLUDED THE HIT SINGLE “TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS”
TODAY IN 1970, CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG WENT TO NUMBER ONE ON THE UK ALBUM CHART WITH THE ALBUM ‘DÉJÀ VU’. A FEW MONTHS LATER IT WOULD HIT #1 IN AMERICA.
ON THIS DAY IN 1987, U2’S ALBUM “THE JOSHUA TREE” ENTERED THE CHART AT #7, MAKING IT THE HIGHEST NEW ENTRY ON THE AMERICAN CHARTS IN SEVEN YEARS. IT WOULD GO ON TO HIT #1 IN OVER 20 COUNTRIES.