Ah..."The Wall"...from Pink Floyd.
I have the album on original 1980 vinyl...on 1990's CD...and the MOVIE on 1980's-era video disc! That's multi-media coverage!
"Another Brick In The Wall" is another one of "Jersey's Favorite Hits...
November 28th, 1992 – Whitney Houston starts a record-breaking 14 week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘I Will Always Love You’, from the ‘Bodyguard’ soundtrack. The song was written by Dolly Parton.
October 10th, 1970 – A song originally written for a bank advertisement makes its way to No.2 on the singles chart today. The Carpenters had re-recorded ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ first done by Freddie Allen. The successful ad played Allen’s version over footage of a young couple getting married and was made for Crocker National Bank in California.
November 28th, 1992 – Whitney Houston starts a record-breaking 14 week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘I Will Always Love You’, from the ‘Bodyguard’ soundtrack. The song was written by Dolly Parton.
October 11th, 1989 – Michael Jackson attends a ceremony for the opening of the Michael Jackson Auditorium at his former elementary school in Hollywood, California.
Are recent albums released by Classic Rock groups any better than their earlier work?
Somehow that’s what I think goes into the release of a group whose successes may have happened 20 or more years ago.
You might say that in regards to the news of Pink Floyd’s announcing that they’ll be putting out their first new album in 20 years...
November 30th, 1971 - Sly And The Family Stone are at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Family Affair’. It would be their last No.1 hit and Rolling Stone magazine would later rank the song at 138 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time...
October 12th, 1994 - Pink Floyd plays the first of a 15-night run at Earls Court, London, England. Less than a minute after the band started playing ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, scaffolding holding 1200 fans, collapsed, dropping hundreds of people 20 feet to the ground...
March 8th, 1965 - David Bowie makes his television debut. It's on a UK program called "Gadzooks! It's All Happening" and was with The Manish Boys. They performed their single 'I Pity The Fool.'