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- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
This Week In 1981: February 8, 1981
From "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" to "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", and "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" to "La La La", music history is littered with...
- Apr 27, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: April 27, 1980
When is a one-hit wonder not a one-hit wonder? When they actually had a second huge hit that often gets forgetten about. This week in...
- Feb 9, 2020
- 3 min
This Week In 1980: February 10, 1980
In "Paninaro", Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe listed rockabilly as one of the genres he doesn't like — there's quite a list (but what he does...
- Mar 24, 2017
- 5 min
This Week In 1984: March 25, 1984
One song can change everything. There you'll be, plodding along releasing moderately successful records and then one of your singles...
- Jan 28, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1984: January 29, 1984
I have mixed feelings about posthumous releases. On the one hand, a song or album completed after an artist has passed away may not...
- Jan 25, 2017
- 4 min
This Week In 1992: January 26, 1992
There are some songs you just know are going to be massive. Then there are those singles that climb all the way up the chart, defying any...