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Friday’s Nostalgic News – May 26

  • 1973 – The Edgar Winter Group went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Frankenstein’, the bands only US No.1, it reached No.18 in the UK.
  • 1974 – Tragedy struck at a David Cassidy concert at London’s White City when over 1,000 fans had to be treated by first aid workers due to the frenzied excitement. One fan Bernadette Whelan died from heart failure four days later.
  • 1979 – Kenny Rogers’ great song “She Believes In Me” took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
  • 1979 – “Reunited” ruled supreme for the fourth week in a row for Peaches & Herb.
  • 1979 – ‘Sunday Girl’ gave Blondie their second UK No.1 hit single.
  • 1979 – The first day of the two day Loch Lomond Festival with The Stranglers, Dr Feelgood, Skids, Third World, The Dickies. Day two featured The AWB, Buzzcocks, Rockpile and The Boomtown Rats who played ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ live for the first time.
  • 1984 – Former backing singer with Stevie Wonder, Denise Williams started a 2 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Let’s Hear It For The Boy’, taken from the film ‘Footlose’, a No.2 hit in the UK.
  • 1987 – Jill Jones’ self-titled debut album was released.
  • 1990 – For the first time ever the Top five positions on the US singles chart were held by female artists; Madonna was at No.1 with ‘Vogue’, Heart were at No.2,Sinead O’Connor No.3, Wilson Phillips at No.4 and Janet Jackson was at No.5
  • 1990 – “Hold On” by En Vogue was the #1 R&B song.
  • 1990 – Wilson Phillips topped the Adult Contemporary chart with “Hold On”.
  • 1994 – Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley. The couple divorced in
  • 1995 – They had first met when the seven-year-old Presley attended several of Jackson’s concerts in Las Vegas.
  • 1995 – The Rolling Stones played two semi-acoustic concerts at the Paradiso Amsterdam over two days. Artists who have recorded concerts at the Paradiso include Joy Division, Willie Nelson, Phish, Nirvana, The Cure, Lenny Kravitz, Nick Cave, Dave Matthews and Amy Winehouse.
  • 1996 – George Michael had the #1 album in the U.K. with Older.
  • 1999 – It was announced that the Backstreet Boys album “Millennium” had sold 1.13 million units in its first week of release.

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