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Music History Events: albums released January 20
• 1964 – THE BEATLES – ‘Meet the Beatles!’ (USA)
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• 1967 – THE ROLLING STONES – ‘Between the Buttons’ (UK)
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• 1972 – JERRY GARCIA – ‘Garcia’
• 1975 – BOB DYLAN – ‘Blood on the Tracks’
• 1977 – JIMMY BUFFETT – ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes’
• 1978 – GERRY RAFFERTY – ‘City To City’
• 1978 – XTC – ‘White Music’
• 1978 – JOURNEY – ‘Infinity’
• 1978 – BOOTSY’S RUBBER BAND – ‘Bootsy? Player of the Year’
• 1983 – DEF LEPPARD – ‘Pyromania’ (UK)
• 1987 – BRUCE WILLIS – ‘The Return of Bruno’
• 1993 – DIONNE WARWICK – ‘Friends Can Be Lovers’
• 1993 – FISH – ‘Songs from the Mirror’
• 1997 – DAFT PUNK – ‘Homework’
• 1998 – MICHAEL BOLTON – ‘My Secret Passion: The Arias’
• 2003 – MASTERPLAN – ‘Masterplan’
• 2006 – CAT POWER – ‘The Greatest’
• 2006 – EDGUY – ‘Rocket Ride’
• 2009 – A.C. NEWMAN – ‘Get Guilty’
• 2009 – ROBERT POLLARD – ‘The Crawling Distance’
• 2009 – REEL BIG FISH – ‘Fame, Fortune and Fornication’
• 2009 – ANDREW BIRD – ‘Noble Beast’
• 2009 – BON IVER – ‘Blood Bank’ (EP)
• 2010 – ROYAL HUNT – ‘X’
• 2012 – BIOHAZARD – ‘Reborn in Defiance’
• 2012 – PRIMAL FEAR – ‘Unbreakable’
• 2014 – MOGWAI – ‘Rave Tapes’
• 2015 – THE DECEMBERISTS – ‘What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World’
• 2015 – BJÖRK – ‘Vulnicura’
• 2015 – LUPE FIASCO – ‘Tetsuo & Youth’
• 2015 – SLEATER-KINNEY – ‘No Cities to Love’
• 2015 – PRIMAL FEAR – ‘Rulebreaker’ (JAP)
• 2017 – FIREWIND – ‘Immortals’ (EUR)
• 2017 – MIKE OLDFIELD – ‘Return to Ommadawn’
• 2017 – AFI – ‘AFI (The Blood Album)’
• 2023 – PAUL CARRACK & SWR BIG BAND – ‘Don’t Wait Too Long’
• 2023 – TEN – ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’
• 2023 – JOHN CALE – ‘Mercy’
• 2023 – RIVERSIDE – ‘ID.Entity’
• 2023 – NEW FOUND GLORY – ‘Make the Most of It’
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LP 1967: ‘BETWEEN THE BUTTONS’ (Rolling Stones)
On January 20, 1967, ‘Between the Buttons’ was released in U.K., the fifth album in the United Kingdom and seventh in the United States (where it would appear on February 11) by the British band that marked the beginning of the Stones’ brief foray into psychedelia. It was recorded in two sessions. The first was performed at RCA Studios in Los Angeles in the first half of August 1966 during the Stones’ American tour.
The second, in November at the recently opened Olympic Sound Studios in London. It was No. 3 in the UK charts and in the American edition two songs were deleted, replacing them with ‘Ruby Tuesday’ and ‘Let’s spend the night together’. This helped the album easily reach No. 2 on the Billboard Hot200 and go gold.
Single 1970: ‘BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER’ (Simon & Garfunkel)
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On January 20, 1970, “Bridge over troubled water” by the duo Simon & Garfunkel was released, the second single album released as an advance of the homonymous album that appeared a week later and would be the last studio work of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The lead vocals are performed by Art Garfunkel over a piano accompaniment played by Larrry Knechtel, a well-known keyboardist belonging to the session musician collective Wrecking Crew. Other musicians employed on the recording included bassist Joe Osborn and drummer Hal Blaine. Co-produced by Roy Halee, the song, with a marked gospel influence, contains elements of the “wall of sound” technique used by Phil Spector.
At the 13th Grammy Awards ceremony, the song received five awards, including the best album and best song of the year. It spent six weeks at No. 1 on the US Hot 100 and also topped the charts in the UK, Canada, France, and New Zealand. In eight more countries, it was top5 and sold an estimated sum of more than six million copies. It was also one of the most covered songs of the twentieth century, among them those of Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Johnny Cash. It is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of “the songs that shaped rock and roll”.
Single 1971: ‘WHAT’S GOING ON’ (Marvin Gaye)
“the songs that shaped rock and roll”
By the end of March 1970, Gaye had fallen into a deep depression after the death of her friend and duet partner Tammi Terrell from a brain tumor. Voluntarily away from music and studies, he even thought about dedicating himself to American football and even tried out for the Detroit Lions, which did not prosper. A few weeks later he came into contact with Al Cleveland and Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, ex-Four Tops, who asked him for help finishing a song with political undertones called ‘What’s going on’. They had composed it after witnessing a brutal police charge against young students protesting against the war. Marvin agreed to produce the song for Motown, but Cleveland and Benson convinced him to record it himself.
As he was fascinated by the song, he recorded it along with his own song, ‘God is love’ and presented the tapes to his brother-in-law Berry Gordy Jr. (Gaye was married to the daughter of the Motown boss), so that he could publish them as his next single. Although Motown had already released songs with socio-political content (‘War’ by Edwin Starr, ‘Ball of confusion’ by Temptations or ‘Heaven help us all’ by Stevie Wonder) Berry refused, considering that ‘What’s going on’ departed from the line of ‘radio-commercial-song’ that they wanted to keep on the label and that until then had given them very good results.
Gaye insisted and even threatened not to record a second of his music with Motown. Gordy eventually relented, convinced that it would be a sales failure. Released on January 20, 1971, ‘What’s Going On’ immediately reached the top of the pop and R&B charts, selling more than 2 million copies. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine chose it as the fourth-greatest song of all time, and it is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of ‘the songs that shaped rock and roll’.
LP 1975: ‘BLOOD ON THE TRACKS’ (Bob Dylan)
On January 20, 1975, Bob Dylan’s fifteenth album, ‘Blood on the Tracks’, was released in the United States. It marked his return to Columbia after his two-album experience with Asylum Records.
Intensely emotional work at the zenith of its creativity. It is essentially about the breakup of his marriage with Sara. Songs like ‘Youre going to make me lonesome when you go’, ‘You’re a big girl’ and ‘If you see her, say hello’ speak for themselves in terms of regret and lost love, while ‘Buckets of rain’ is a bittersweet love song and ‘Idiot Wind’ a song in which she conveys all her rage and anger. Although he always denied that they were autobiographical, his son Jakob once said: ‘The songs are my parents’ conversations.’ One of the most musically diverse of his career, which is due to the fact that Dylan, dissatisfied with a first test edition recorded in New York in November 1974, re-recorded five songs with local musicians from Minnesota. The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts and No. 4 in the United Kingdom. ‘Tangled up in blue’ was their most successful single after ‘Knocking on heaven’s door’. One English critic wrote: ‘If you can only listen to one Dylan record, or if you want to blame it on Dire Straits, this is the one you’re looking for.’