Lars Ulrich of Metallica appears before a US Senate panel to testify against websites like Napster, that allowed people to trade music for free over the Internet.
https://metalinjection.net/news/james-hetfield-recalls-metallica-turning-to-thievery-to-stay-afloat
also, they would copy and distribute judas priest tapes. hypocrites.
Napster baaaaaaad!
Also on this date in 1969: Mercury Records releases a new artist's strange single about astronaut 'Major Tom'. The cut includes Rick Wakeman playing the mellotron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMZ_5WYmCg
At first the single doesn't sell well. It's the lead track on David Bowie's second album; released on Nov. 14. The album gets mixed reviews.
14 years later on Jan. 3 1983, a very-well-produced German-language song called 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' is released. By now, everybody knows about Major Tom. It's quickly a #1 in central Europe. When the English-language version is released on Sep. 24, it does well. #1 in Canada! #4 in South Africa! So well that Schilling makes several re-mixes in the next 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQRaj1vcnrs
During the UEFA Championship in the summer of 2024, the original version of "Major Tom" re-enters the Top Ten of the German Single Charts after more than 40 years
I’ve officially crossed the 365 day mark of posting Today In Rock and Roll History.
Today was also the day, in 1969, when The Rolling Stones released Honky Tonk Woman
Yeah, congrats and well done!
I wish it were possible to search back in time and see what's been done ... not a strong point of this program, it's not a database much.
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