Bruce Springsteen was at No.1 on the UK album chart with his twentieth studio album Letter to You. Since touring was not possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the album was promoted with an online radio station. It features three tracks originally written prior to Springsteen’s 1973 debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J.: ‘If I Was the Priest,’ ‘Janey Needs a Shooter’ and ‘Song for Orphans.’ Springsteen came across earlier recordings of these songs with John Hammond while assembling a compilation album.
The Crystals earn a #1 hit with “He’s A Rebel” In an incident familiar to all fans of pop music scandals, a great hue and cry was raised in the press and in the music industry when the late 1980s dance sensation Milli Vanilli was exposed as mere lip-sync artists. Suddenly exposed as illegitimate, the duo that had earned a #1 hit with “Baby Don’t Forget My Number” (1989) was […]
