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ALBUM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1967

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the
Beatles
. It was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending
15 weeks at number one in America.Time magazine declared it "a historic
departure in the progress of music" and the New Statesman praised its
elevation of pop to the level of fine art. It won four Grammy Awards in
1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.

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The album cover photo shoot.                    (click on pic to enlarge)

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SANDY KOZEL

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SINGER-SONGWRITER IS 71 TODAY


Robert Clark "Bob" Seger was born in Lincoln Park, Michigan.

Rock and roll singer-songwriter Bob Seger rose to fame in the 1970s,
achieving success both as a solo artist and as the frontman for the
silver Bullet Band. His many popular songs include "Turn the Page,"
"Night Moves," "Old Time Rock & Roll" and "Against the Wind."  He
also co-wrote the Eagles’ song "Heartache Tonight," from their hit
1979 album The Long Run. The song reached #1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 and the single sold over a million copies. Seger has stated
that singer Little Richard was the artist who inspired him to become
a musician.

 

                            

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ALBUM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1971

The album Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and 11th studio album by the
English rock band The Rolling Stones, released. It is the band’s first album
of the 1970s and its first release on the band’s newly formed label, Rolling
Stones Records
. It is also Mick Taylor‘s first full-length appearance on a
Rolling Stones album, the first Rolling Stones album not to feature any
contributions from guitarist and founder Brian Jones and the first one on
which singer Mick Jagger is credited with playing guitar.

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SINGLE RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1966

Frank Sinatra’s Strangers in the Night reached number one on both the
Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song
for Sinatra’s 1966 album Strangers in the Night, which became his most
commercially successful album.

               

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