Tuesday, November 15, 2011

#1 Album on November 15, 1971

Santana III
Santana


III features "Everybody's Everything" and "No One To Depend On". Santana III was the last Santana album to hit #1 on the charts until their comeback release of Supernatural in 1999. Santana guitarist Neal Schon and keyboard player Gregg Rolie left the band in 1972 to form the rock group Journey.
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Monday, November 14, 2011

#1 Album on November 14, 1988

Rattle and Hum
U2


Rattle and Hum is the soundtrack of the self-titled rockumentary film and features live and studio recordings captured when U2 toured America in 1987. The band produced covers of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, and released the U2 staples "Desire" and "All I Want Is You".
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

#1 Album on November 13, 1982

Business as Usual
Men at Work


The Australian-based rock group won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Business as Usual gave us the hits "Who Can It Be Now?", "Be Good Johnny" and the Ausie-partriot "Down Under". Men at Work produced three highly successful albums through the 1980s and disbanded in 1986.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

#1 Album on November 12, 1966

The Monkees
Monkees


Inspired by the Beatles Hard Days Night film, The Monkees pop-rock band was created for the self-titled TV series which aired from 1965 to 1968. The show's success spawned four number one albums within one year. The Monkees reunion tour was the largest grossing tour of 1986.
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Friday, November 11, 2011

#1 Album on November 11, 1973

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John


Elton John reached his peak of success with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The double album produced "Candle in the Wind", "Bennie and the Jets", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

#1 Album on November 10, 1990

To the Extreme
Vanilla Ice


The single "Ice Ice Baby" is well known for its sampling of Queen's 1981 hit "Under Pressure". Wild Cherry's 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music" was also covered on the album. Robert Matthew Van Winkle was raised in a Dallas suburb and earned his nickname "Vanilla Ice" as a young cardboard break-dancer.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

#1 Album on November 9, 1975

Rock of the Westies
Elton John


Elton John's tenth studio album, along with the single "Island Girl", reached #1 in late autumn 1975. Elton was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight in 1947 and started playing the piano at the age of three. Elton met his career song-writing partner Bernie Taupin when both answered the same audition ad in 1967.
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