Sunday’s Nostalgic News – May 21

• • 1985 – Marvin Gaye’s “Dream of a Lifetime” was released. It was the last album he recorded.
  • 1988 – Prince scored his first UK No.1 album with ‘Lovesexy.’ The cover (based on a photo by Jean Baptiste Mondino) caused some controversy upon release as it depicts Prince in the nude. Some record stores refused to stock it or wrapped the album in black.
  • 1988 – Wet Wet Wet and Billy Bragg were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’ and ‘She’s Leaving Home.’ The two Beatles songs had been recorded for the childLine charity, sales of the single, which spent four weeks at No.1 on the UK chart, were over £600,000, all of which was donated to ChildLine .
  • 1988 – “Mercedes Boy” from Pebbles topped all songs on the R&B chart.

• 1994 – All 4 One started an eleven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Swear’, a No.2 hit in the UK. The song had been a No.1 country hit for John Montgomery in 1994.
• 1994 – Manchester United Football Club along with Status Quo were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Come On You Reds’.
• 1994 – Aaliyah moved to #1 on the R&B chart with “Back & Forth”, where she would stay for three weeks.
• 1996 – The Metallica single “Until It Sleeps” was released.

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