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September 25, 1981 The Rolling Stones start their US tour with a concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, where they play to a crowd of 90,000. The tour is sponsored by musk maker Jovan, establishing a new paradigm for corporate involvement.More
July 20, 1981 Journey release Escape, their most popular album. The ballad "Open Arms" is the highest charting single, but "Don't Stop Believin'" is the one that endures, becoming one of the biggest songs of all time.
May 10, 1981 Kraftwerk release their eighth studio album, Computer World, featuring prescient songs about the influence of computers on society.More
January 22, 1981 Pop singer/actress Willa Ford is born Amanda Lee Williford in Ruskin, Florida. She performs as Mandah but to avoid confusion with Mandy Moore, she settles on a variation of her surname.
October 20, 1980 U2 release their debut album, Boy, produced by Steve Lillywhite. It doesn't yield any hits but "I Will Follow" becomes one of their most popular songs.
September 4, 1980 Pop singer Dan Miller (of O-Town) is born in Laconia, New Hampshire.
June 6, 1980 Urban Cowboy, a Western romance film starring John Travolta and Debra Winger, opens in theaters. The mellow country soundtrack spawns hits from Kenny Rogers, Johnny Lee, and Anne Murray, and spurs a trend of pop-leaning fare in country music dubbed the "Urban Cowboy Movement."More
May 28, 1980 Pop singer Mark Feehily (of Westlife) is born in Sligo, Ireland.
October 19, 1979 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' third album, Damn The Torpedoes, is released. It includes the band's first two Top 20 hits, "Don't Do Me Like That" and "Refugee," and well as the popular songs "Here Comes My Girl" and "Even The Losers." The album reaches #2 in the US, and becomes Petty & the Heartbreakers' most-successful non-compilation record there, selling over 3 million copies.
September 8, 1979 Pink is born Alecia Moore in Abington, Pennsylvania. She becomes a huge pop star with soul-baring songs like "Family Portrait" and party jams like "Raise Your Glass." Highly athletic, she's also the first major singer to do aerial routines while performing, which she incorporates into her act in 2004.
August 20, 1979 Bob Dylan, a recent convert to Christianity, releases the faith-driven album Slow Train Coming. It includes "Gotta Serve Somebody," which peaks at #24, becoming Dylan's last single to crack the top 40 in the US.More
June 12, 1979 Electropop singer Robyn is born Robin Miriam Carlsson in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1995 the 16-year-old releases her debut album, Robyn Is Here, which yields her first pair of Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and "Show Me Love."
April 29, 1979 Pop singer-songwriter Jo O'Meara (of S Club 7) is born in Romford, Greater London, England.
April 10, 1979 Pop singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor is born in Hounslow, London, England.
February 15, 1979 Saturday Night Fever and Billy Joel are big winners at The Grammys, with the soundtrack getting Album of the Year and "Just The Way You Are" taking Record of the Year and Song of the Year.More
September 24, 1978 Ruth Etting, a popular singer and actress throughout the '20s and '30s, dies at age 80. Her life inspired the 1955 fictionalized biopic Love Me or Leave Me, starring Doris Day and James Cagney.
June 16, 1978 The movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, opens in US theaters, becoming the smash hit of the year.More
January 18, 1978 Warren Zevon releases his most popular album, Excitable Boy, filled with outlandish story songs like "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Werewolves Of London." It's co-produced by Jackson Browne.
October 28, 1977 At the Old Waldorf in San Francisco, Steve Perry makes his debut with Journey. The band formed four years earlier and has been playing mostly progressive rock, but with Perry at the helm they make stadium-friendly pop songs and become one of the biggest bands in the land.
March 21, 1977 Iggy Pop plays The Agora in Cleveland with David Bowie guesting on keyboards. Members of the Ohio band Devo leave a demo tape for Pop, who loves it and passes it along to Bowie, leading to a record deal for the band, who make their first album the following year with Brian Eno producing.
March 13, 1977 David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Blondie begin a North American tour.
March 3, 1977 Pop singer Ronan Keating (of Boyzone) is born in Swords, Dublin, Ireland.
February 2, 1977 Shakira is born Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll in Barranquilla, Colombia. At 13, she gets a record deal with Sony Music – the first step on her path to becoming a worldwide superstar. More
November 16, 1975 The variety show Donny & Marie, starring Donny and Marie Osmond, debuts on ABC. Their theme song is "May Tomorrow Be A Perfect Day," but the show becomes synonymous with a different tune: "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock N' Roll." More
May 13, 1975 Country singer-songwriter Bob Wills, known for the hit "Faded Love" (popularly covered by Patsy Cline in 1963), dies of pneumonia in Fort Worth, Texas, at age 70.
April 29, 1975 Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" marks the end of the Vietnam War as the American Radio Service plays the tune during the Fall of Saigon - a signal for American personnel to evacuate. Many songs were written in reaction to the war, which ramped up in the late '60s. A few songs, notably "Still in Saigon" by The Charlie Daniels Band and "Born In The U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen, explore the plight of veterans on their return home.More
April 13, 1975 Latin-pop singer Lou Bega is born David Lubega to a Ugandan father and a Sicilian mother in Munich, Germany.
March 17, 1975 Justin Hawkins, lead singer/guitarist for the glam-pop band The Darkness, is born in Chertsey, Surrey, England. His musical philosophy: "If something's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
October 14, 1974 Nashville veterans worry about the sanctity of country music when Olivia Newton-John wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards.More
August 30, 1974 Pop singer/songwriter Rich Cronin (of LFO) is born in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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