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Van Halen released what would become their most successful song, "Jump", as the lead single from the album "1984". The tune would top the Billboard Hot 100 on February 25th, 1984 and stay there for five weeks. Over the years, vocalist David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics, but he usually says they were inspired by a TV news story he saw where a man was about to commit suicide by jumping off a building.

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Vocalist Ian Anderson and bassist Glenn Cornick leave the John Evans Blues Band to form Jethro Tull, naming their group after the 18th century inventor of a number of farm implements. John Evan himself will later join them as Jethro Tull's keyboard player.

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Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes", a song that he wrote after seeing a young man get angry at his date for scuffing his shoes. Even though today we more often hear Elvis Presley's version, it only made it to number 20 on the Billboard Top 100 during a five week stay, while was Perkins' original went to number 2 and stayed on the chart for 17 weeks.

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Hall And Oates overtook The Everly Brothers as the top recording duo of all time when their biggest hit, "Maneater" reached number 1 on the US singles chart. It made #6 in the UK.

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Bill Haley And His Comets put the first Rock and Roll song on the UK singles chart with "Rock Around The Clock", which would later peak at number 4.

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[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 57 points 6 months ago

Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 65 points 7 months ago

Obligatory, FUCK U/SPEZ

I was part of “Rexxit” or whatever you wanna call it; I agree, life is better here. Viva la Lemmings

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 60 points 7 months ago

How about no President over the age of 60? I want young politicians. I also want term limits.

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 72 points 7 months ago

I like Jack, he’s a good actor. But he, most likely, would not be acting today if it wasn’t for his parents

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 74 points 7 months ago

Every official party switch, while in office, should disqualify a person from their position as it disenfranchises the voters as they elected someone from party A or B and they deserve to be represented by someone from the party that was elected into power

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 85 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Imagine a world without Apple, Facebook and Google!!

Pepperidge Farm remembers

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How the fuck is anyone associated with Jan 6th not banned from holding any government job?

He was convicted and along with jail sentences, bans from all government institutions should have been included.

…same goes for the shitty orange man once he’s convicted.

Edit: a word

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 118 points 8 months ago

So, I’m the moderator of !ClassicRock…how do you want me to start the list? Chronologically, quantity, severity??

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago

If he was giving it all back, the story would start with words “former billionaire.”

I also don’t understand this constant probing of the people when it comes time to provide assistance. I pay my taxes, that’s my contribution to social programs. When there’s a natural disaster or issue don’t put a bunch of celebrities on TV asking for slightly less poor people to donate. I want the government to step in and help out. Billionaires should not exist unless everyone has a safe place to sleep at night and warm meals to eat during the day. Considering that’s not the case, that’s how you know capitalism isn’t the best system

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 74 points 10 months ago

That was amazing!! Just wish we got to see the final image of the BIL on the veranda, broken and surrounded by 23 bags of rice

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 123 points 10 months ago

My uncle spent years preaching to me about the need to be loyal to a company. I never drank the Kool-Aid. He spent 21 years working for an investment banking company in their IT department. 4 years before he was set to retire with a full pension, etc. his company was acquired by a larger bank. He lost everything except his 401k. He then spent the next 12 years working to get his time back so he’d be able to retire. He died 2 years ago and the company sent a bouquet of flowers.

THE COMPANY DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU!!

[-] ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 125 points 11 months ago

Move to a new, smaller, instance. You can still use lemmy.world as though it was still running at full speed. You can still post to lemmy.world or other federated communities and you experience won’t be so painful.

Lemmy.world is experiencing an influx of Redditors and with us good Redditors come our awful trolls. Growth, along with DDoS attacks have plagued the site since I began using it.

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