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Music History Events: albums released December 8
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Albums released December 8:
• 1967 – THE BEATLES – ‘Magical Mistery Tour’ (EP) (UK)
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• 1967 – THE ROLLING STONES – ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’
• 1968 – STEVIE WONDER – ‘For Once in My Life’
• 1970 – FREE – ‘Highway’
• 1972 – MARVIN GAYE – ‘Trouble Man’
• 1972 – DEEP PURPLE – ‘Made in Japan’
• 1972 – VÉRONIQUE SANSON – ‘De l’autre côté de mon rêve’
• 1976 – EAGLES – ‘Hotel California’
• 1978 – PUBLIC IMAGE LTD – ‘Public Image: First Issue’
• 1980 – QUEEN – ‘Flash Gordon’
• 1980 – CROSBY, STILLS & NASH – ‘Replay’
• 1990 – RANDY NEWMAN / OST – ‘Avalon’
• 2004 – JESU – ‘Jesu’
• 2004 – THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS – ‘This Is War’
• 2009 – SNOOP DOGG – ‘Malice n Wonderland’
• 2017 – AVENGED SEVENFOLD – ‘Live at the GRAMMY Museum’
• 2017 – GHOST – ‘Ceremony and Devotion’
• 2023 – NICKI MINAJ – ‘Pink Friday 2’
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LP 1976: ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA’ (Eagles)
On December 8, 1976, ‘Hotel California’ was released, the Eagles’ fifth studio album, one of the best-selling in history (more than 32 million copies). Produced by Bill Szymczyk and recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami and Record Plant in Los Angeles, it was the band’s first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and the last with Randy Meisner on bass. It was No. 1 on the album charts and two of the three singles released, ‘Hotel California’ and ‘New Kid in Town’ were also No. 1 on the Hot 100 and received Grammy nominations. It was also close to taking the title of ‘album of the year’ that was finally snatched from Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’.
LP 1967: ‘THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST’ (Rolling Stones)
On December 8, 1967, the sixth British album and the eighth American album of the Rolling Stones were released, ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’, the only incursion of the Stones into psychedelia that permeated most groups at the end of the sixties. Jagger and Richards’ imprisonment for drug possession caused the producer and manager to abandon them, making it the band’s first self-produced album. It was also the last work of the Stones in which Brian Jones took part.
Recorded in difficult circumstances, taking advantage of the time they had left free from their legal proceedings, it appeared six months after ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and seemed to be the Rolling Stones’ answer with a suspiciously similar cover and innovative arrangements that included African rhythms, mellotron and orchestrations. Among his most memorable songs are ‘2000 light years from home’, ‘Citadel’ and ‘She’s a rainbow’. Bassist Bill Wyman contributed ‘Another Land’.
Critics were split almost 50/50 between those who thought it was a byproduct of Sgt Pepper and those who considered the album an interesting twist in the Stones’ musical career. Indeed, never before had the band experimented so much with the possibilities of a recording studio, a fact that would not be repeated, since in their next work, ‘Beggar’s Banquet’ they would return to their R&B roots. Even so, it is not the favorite of Jagger and Richards who consider it “full of”. She was top5 in England and the United States and No. 1 in Australia.