Last Night Jill Woke Joe Up To Change His Depends

And Joe called Don Henley to congratulate him on the Eagles win.

 On This Date In Music

1971 - Three Dog Night started a six week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Joy To The World'. The group's second US No. 1.

1973 - The Eagles release their second studio album Desperado. Recorded at Island Studios in London, UK, two singles were released from the album 'Tequila Sunrise' and 'Outlaw Man'.

1973 - Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side Of The Moon went gold in the US. The LP went on to stay in the US chart for more than ten years and became the longest charting rock record of all time.

1994 - Pink Floyd started a four-week run at No. 1 on the UK album chart with The Division Bell, their fourth No.1 album.

 

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1974 - The Eagles released their third studio album On the Border the first Eagles album to feature guitarist Don Felder. Three singles were released from the album: 'Already Gone', 'James Dean' and 'Best of My Love'.

1975 - Led Zeppelin enjoy a six-week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with Physical Graffiti the group's fourth US No. 1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies, no other album in the history of Atlantic records had generated so many sales. Physical Graffiti has now been certified 16 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 16 million copies.

1975 - Frankie Valli's unrequited love ballad "My Eyes Adored You" hits No. 1 in the US.

1980 - Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' started a four week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart. The track, which was the group’s only US chart topper, was also a No. 1 in the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and in many other countries around the world. Pink Floyd received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group for the song, but lost to Bob Seger's 'Against The Wind.'

 

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1975 - Scottish group The Average White Band went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Pick Up The Pieces', the bands album AWB also went to No. 1 on the US chart.

1977 - The Eagles released 'Hotel California' the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name. Written by Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey its long guitar coda was voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist in 1998. The song was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978.

1983 - Styx release ‘Kilroy Was Here’, a concept album about a dystopian future where rock and roll is banned and technology has run amok.

 

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1972 - Pink Floyd perform "Eclipse”, the music which became the Dark Side Of The Moon album, at the Rainbow Theatre in London.

1976 - The Eagles release Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), a collection of 10 songs from their first four albums. For a while, it is certified as the top-selling album in US history.

 

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1975 - Scottish group The Average White Band went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Pick Up The Pieces', the bands album AWB also went to No. 1 on the US chart.

 

1977 - The Eagles released 'Hotel California' the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name. Written by Don Felder, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey its long guitar coda was voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of Guitarist in 1998. The song was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1978.

1983 - Styx release ‘Kilroy Was Here’, a concept album about a dystopian future where rock and roll is banned and technology has run amok.

 

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1972 - Don McLean's 'American Pie' started a four week run at No. 1 in the US singles chart. The song is somewhat of a recounting of "The Day the Music Died" (a term taken from the song) the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), and the aftermath. The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. The single runs 8:36 and you have to flip the 45 over to hear all of it.

1974 - With '50s nostalgia trending, Happy Days premieres on ABC with "Rock Around The Clock" as its theme song.

1974 - Brownsville Station's "Smokin' In The Boys' Room" is certified Gold.

1977 - The Eagles hit No. 1 on the US album chart with Hotel California the group's third US No. 1 album. In the 2013 documentary History of the Eagles, Don Henley said the song was about "a journey from innocence to experience...that's all".

1977 - Leo Sayer's "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" hits No. 1.

1983 - Phil Collins had his first UK No. 1 single with his version of 'You Can't Hurry Love,' a hit for The Supremes in 1966.

 

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1955 - ‘Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and his Comets, entered the chart for the first time. The original full title of the song was 'We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight!' and is often cited as the biggest-selling vinyl rock and roll single of all time with sales over 25m.

1971 - Black Sabbath released 'Paranoid' their second studio album in the US. The album features the band's best-known signature songs, including the title track, 'Iron Man' and 'War Pigs'. The album was originally titled War Pigs, but allegedly the record company changed it to Paranoid, fearing backlash from supporters of the ongoing Vietnam War.

1972 - Bread's soft rock classic "Baby I'm-A Want You" is certified Gold.

1980 - Pink Floyd released 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' in the US. The single peaked at No. 1 on both the US and UK charts, giving Pink Floyd their first and only No. 1 hit single. The single went to No. 1 in many other countries, including Australia, Germany and Italy.

1980 - Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door is certified Platinum; it is the last Zeppelin album issued while drummer John Bonham is alive.

1981 - Eagles Live is certified Platinum; it is 13 years until the next Eagles album is released. 

 

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1818 - Josef Mohr, an assistant pastor of a St. Nicholas chapel in Oberndorf, Austria takes a ‘poem’ he had written previously to an amateur composer friend, Franz Xaver Gruber, who puts the poem to music. That night at Midnight Mass he introduces a new Christmas song: "Stille Nacht!" better known as "Silent Night."

 

1976 - The Eagles sixth album, Hotel California spent the first of eight non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard chart. The band's first LP with Joe Walsh and last with bassist Randy Meisner which has now sold over 34 million copies worldwide.

1988 - Hair metal reaches its apogee as Poison's power ballad "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" hits No. 1 in the US. It stays for three weeks.

 

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1969 - Peter, Paul and Mary went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Leaving On A Jet Plane'.

 

1971 - The Main Ingredient records "Everybody Plays The Fool."

1974 - Joe Walsh, a former James Gang and Barnstorm guitarist, officially replaced Bernie Leadon in the Eagles after producer Bill Szymczyk had recommended Walsh to The Eagles.

 

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1976 - The Eagles released their fifth studio album Hotel California, their first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon. The album topped the US chart for eight weeks (non-consecutively) and at the 20th Grammy Awards, the Eagles won a Grammy Award for 'Hotel California', which won Record of the Year. Worldwide sales now stand at over 32 million.

1979 - Styx went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Babe', which Dennis DeYoung wrote for his wife, the group's only US No. 1.

 

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1976 - The Eagles released 'New Kid in Town', which became the group's third US No. 1 in February the following year. The single written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther was released as the first single from their fifth album Hotel California.

2014 - Pink Floyd's classic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon made a surprise return to the Billboard chart when it landed at No. 13. Although it held the No. 1 spot in the US for only a week when released in 1973, it remained in the Billboard album chart for 741 weeks.

 

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1955 - Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" becomes the first rock and roll record to hit No. 1 in the UK, thanks to its inclusion in the movie Blackboard Jungle.

 

1971 - Yes release Fragile, their fourth album and first with keyboard player Rick Wakeman. It includes some of their most enduring songs.

 

1983 - Quiet Riot's Metal Health hits No. 1 in America, becoming the first heavy metal album to reach the top spot.

 

1988 - Russian cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 7 took into space a cassette copy of the latest Pink Floyd album Delicate Sound Of Thunder and played it in orbit, making Pink Floyd the first rock band to be played in space. David Gilmour and Nick Mason both attended the launch of the spacecraft.

 

 

1994 - The Eagles started a two-week run at No. 1 on the US album chart with 'Hell Freezes Over.' The album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the band's breakup in 1980; he commented that the band would play together again when ‘Hell Freezes Over.’