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On This Day, June 8th 1948 The First Porsche 356 Was Built.
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On This Day, June 8th 1948 The First Porsche 356 Was Built.
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The 1958 Ford X 2000 Concept Car.
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1939 Porsche Type 64.
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The incomparable David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in London, England, on this day in 1947 ( January 8 )
Bowie has been one of the most creative, enduring forces in rock history, and a man who always seemed to be ahead of his time musically, constantly exploring, pushing the boundaries and re-inventing himself as an artist.
His career is littered with groundbreaking songs like “Space Oddity”, “Life on Mars”, “Starman”, “Ashes to Ashes”, “Changes”, “Ziggy Stardust”, “Fame”, “Heroes”, “Fashion”, “Young Americans”, “Cat People (Putting out Fire)”, and his collaboration with Queen, “Under Pressure”.
He stopped touring after 2004 and his last live performance was at a charity event in 2006.
During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time, the best-selling vinyl artist of the 21st century, winning no less than six Grammy Awards.
Four of his songs are included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list includes five Bowie albums, and on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, Rolling Stone includes seven Bowie songs:
"Heroes” at #23, "Life on Mars?" at #105, "Space Oddity" at #189, "Changes" at #200, "Young Americans" at #204, "Station to Station" at #400, and "Under Pressure" at #429.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Rolling Stone named him among the greatest artists in history and – after his death – called him the "greatest rock star ever".
On 10 January 2016, Bowie passed away from liver cancer in his New York City apartment, aged 69.
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This week in 1983, the Men At Work single “Down Under” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #38 ( January 8 )
Released in 1981 in Australia, “Down Under” was huge around the world, going to #1 in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, Poland and Ireland, and went Top 10 in Germany, South Africa, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The song written by Men at Work co-founders, Colin Hay and Ron Strykert from their international #1 album “Business as Usual”, has gone down in Australian rock history as a classic, and is really an unofficial Aussie anthem.
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) ranked “Down Under” #4 on their list of the Best Australian Songs from 1926 to 2001, as decided by a hundred-strong industry panel.
It was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2007.
The holders of the copyright to a 1932 Australian children’s song successfully sued Hay and Strykert, claiming that they misappropriated the flute riff.
Several appeals by EMI and Men at Work were unsuccessful.
The Men at Work member that played the flute riff Greg Ham said he was deeply affected by the judgment and felt it tarnished his reputation, saying: "I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered—for copying something."
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Robert Capa: Icons, a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Capa’s work, is now on view at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid until January 25 📸
On this day in 1983, the Supertramp LP “Breakfast In America” re-entered the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #178 ( January 8 )
It re-entered the charts after previously hitting the #1 spot in May 1979.
Supertramp’s sixth studio album was also their biggest-selling one, with more than 4 million copies sold in the US, more than 3 million in France (the fourth ever best-selling album), and more than 20 million worldwide.
It went to #1 in the US, and stayed there for six weeks, also hitting #1 in Norway, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and France, #2 in Sweden and Japan, and #3 in the UK.
The album also won two Grammy Awards.
In Australia,Triple M listeners voted “Breakfast in America” #43 in the "100 Greatest Albums of All Time".
One of the most memorable and instantly recognizable album covers of all time has actress and singer Kate Murtagh dressed as a waitress named "Libby" from a diner, as a Statue of Liberty figure holding up a glass of orange juice on a small plate in one hand (in place of the torch on the Statue), and a foldable restaurant menu in the other hand.
In the background, the New York skyline is made with breakfast utensils, condiments, etc…
The album produced four hit singles: "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", "Take the Long Way Home" and the title track.
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On this day in 1984, the Matthew Wilder single “Break My Stride” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #79 ( January 8 )
“Break My Stride” went on to become a major worldwide hit for Wilder, reaching #1 in Norway, #3 in New Zealand, Ireland and Belgium, #4 in the UK and South Africa, #5 in Canada and the US, #6 in Australia, and #7 in Germany.
But the song has had a few incarnations over the decades, which shows what a catchy tune it is…
In 1996, Austrian duo Unique II covered Wilder’s “Break My Stride”, sending it to #1 in Austria and New Zealand, #2 in Australia, #3 in the Czech Republic, and #9 in Denmark and Ireland.
And in 2004, "Break My Stride" was covered again by German band Blue Lagoon and became a hit in several European countries, including Austria, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, where it reached the Top 10.
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Lovely weather today.
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On this day in 1977, the Electric Light Orchestra LP “A New World Record” peaked on the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #5 ( January 8 )
After ELO’s previous three studio recordings failed to chart in their home market, “A New World Record” became their first Top 10 album in the UK.
It was also the first album to feature the now-familiar ELO logo, designed by Kosh, which went on to feature on the band’s subsequent releases…
The album contained some big hit singles, including "Livin' Thing", the transatlantic Top Ten hit "Telephone Line", which became the band's first gold US single, and the UK Top Ten hit "Rockaria!".
In 2006, ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne recalled:
“The songs started to flow and most of them came quickly to me.
To have all those hits, it was just ...I mean amazing really.
Going from doing okay for probably three or four years to suddenly being in the big time, it was a strange but great thing."
Fun fact: Suzi Quatro’s sister Patti contributes backup vocals on the album.
“A New World Record” went all the way to #1 in Australia, Canada and Sweden, #2 in the Netherlands, #4 in New Zealand, #5 in the US, #6 in the UK, #7 in Germany, and #9 in Germany and Austria.
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