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Music History Events: albums released February 28 (or 29)
• 1963 – THE MIRACLES – ‘The Fabulous Miracles’
• 1966 – THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS – ‘If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears’
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• 1970 – VAN MORRISON – ‘Moondance’ (UK)
• 1971 – SOFT MACHINE – ‘Fourth’
• 1973 – CAMEL – ‘Camel’
• 1975 – YES – ‘Yesterdays’
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• 1976 – OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN – ‘Come On Over’
• 1977 – JOURNEY – ‘Next’
• 1979 – RICKIE LEE JOONES – ‘Rickie Lee Jones’
• 1980 – JOURNEY – ‘Departure’
• 1983 – U2 – ‘War’
• 1983 – JOAN ARMATRADING – ‘The Key’
• 1984 – BOBBY WOMACK – ‘The Poet II’
• 1986 – MISC. – ‘Pretty in Pink’
• 1986 – SWANS – ‘Greed’
• 1988 – EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – ‘Idlewild’
• 1988 – ROBERT PLANT – ‘Now and Zen’
• 1988 – ORCHESTRAL MANOUVRES IN THE DARK – ‘The Best of OMD’
• 1988 – THE CLASH – ‘The Story of the Clash, Volume 1’
• 1988 – THE MISSION – ‘Children’
• 1989 – INDIGO GIRLS – ‘Indigo Girls’
• 1990 – ERIC JOHNSON – ‘Ah Via Musicom’
• 1990 – RIOT V – ‘The Privilege of Power’
• 1990 – KLAUS SCHULZE – ‘Miditerranean Pads’
• 1990 – YO LA TENGO – ‘May I Sing with Me’
• 1993 – ANATHEMA – ‘Serenades’ (UK)
• 1994 – DISCO INFERNO – ‘D.I. Go Pop’
• 1994 – SAINT ETIENNE – ‘Tiger Bay’
• 1995 – JEWEL – ‘Pieces Of You’ (USA)
• 1995 – MATTHEW SWEET – ‘100% Fun’
• 1995 – DEL AMITRI – ‘Twisted’
• 1995 – LOVE BATTERY – ‘Straight Freak Ticket’
• 1995 – KLAUS SCHULZE – ‘In Blue’
• 2000 – AC/DC – ‘Stiff Upper Lip’
• 2000 – OASIS – ‘Standing on the Shoulder of Giants’
• 2000 – THE SMASHING PUMPKINS – ‘Machina/The Machines of God’ (EUR)
• 2000 – STRATOVARIUS – ‘Infinite’
• 2000 – AQUA – ‘Aquarius’
• 2000 – EELS – ‘Daisies of the Galaxy’ (UK)
• 2000 – MODERN TALKING – ‘Year of the Dragon’
• 2000 – STEELY DAN – ‘Two Against Nature’
• 2000 – PETRA – ‘Double Take’
• 2000 – ROLLINS BAND – ‘Get Some Go Again’
• 2000 – JIMMY PAGE & THE BLACK CROWES – ‘Live at the Greek’
• 2000 – THE THE – ‘NakedSelf’
• 2005 – JUDAS PRIEST – ‘Angel of Retribution’ (JAP)
• 2005 – SOILWORK – ‘Stabbing the Drama’
• 2005 – THE HOUSE OF LOVE – ‘Days Run Away’
• 2006 – ELVIS COSTELLO with THE METROPOLE ORKEST – ‘My Flame Burns Blue’
• 2006 – SPYRO GYRA – ‘Wrapped in a Dream’
• 2011 – JAG PANZER – ‘The Scourge of the Light’
• 2012 – CORROSION OF CONFORMITY – ‘Corrosion of Conformity’
• 2020 – FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – ‘F8’
• 2020 – ROBERT CRAY – ‘That’s What I Heard’
• 2020 – TYCHO – ‘Simulcast’
• 2025 – PANDA BEAR – ‘Sinister Grift’
• 2025 – TORI AMOS – ‘The Music of Tori and the Muses’
• 2025 – AVANTASIA – ‘Here Be Dragons’
• 2025 – DOVES – ‘Constellations for the Lonely’
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LP 1970: ‘MOONDANCE’ (Van Morrison)
On February 28, 1970, “Moondance”, the third studio album by Irish musician Van Morrison, was released. The previous album “Astral Weeks” made him a cult artist, but “Moondance” was his first platinum record and the first to enter the top 30.
Ten months after the release of “Astral Weeks”, Morrison settled with his wife in a country house near Woodstock (which he abandoned after the invasion of people after the festival) and began writing songs for his next album. The musicians were recruited from the surrounding area and, with clear arrangements only in his head, Van began recording sessions in the summer of 1969. The A-side of the LP is practically perfect: “And it stoned me” tells an autobiographical story from his childhood: “I think I was about twelve years old. We used to go fishing at a place called Ballystockart. On the way there we stopped in a village and there in front of a small house built with stones, there was that man with a dark complexion and punished by the weather when we asked for water to drink. He offered it to us from a bucket that, according to him, he had just brought from the stream. We had a drink and suddenly everything seemed to stop for me. Time stopped. For a few minutes everything was really calm and I was “in another dimension”. This is what the song is about.”
The album”s jazz-infused title track, “Moondance”, is one of Morrison”s most popular songs. On “Crazy Love”, another of his songs that has become a classic and has received numerous covers, Morrison sings so close to the microphone that you can hear the click of his tongue on the palate. He sings in falsetto and emulating the best Sam Cooke, producing a feeling of intense intimacy backed by a female choir.
‘Caravan’ is about a caravan of gypsies. ‘I love gypsies. Their way of life fascinates me’. The ethereal seafaring ballad ‘Into the mystic’, with a vocal performance full of soul, is a meditation on the splendor of love. ‘Come running’ is a simple, happy, unpretentious song… it does not contain messages or anything like that’. It was released as a single and reached the American Top 40. ‘These dreams of you’, is the result of a dream that Van had about a hypothetical murder of Ray Charles. ‘Brand new day’ came to him after hearing ‘The Weight’ by The Band on the radio. ‘I looked at the sky, and the sun came out and suddenly the subject came to me. I started writing from ‘when all the clouds roll away’ and continued until the end’.
‘Everyone’ begins with a harpsichord playing a melody in 6/8, and although Morrison maintains that it is a song about hope, others maintain that it hides darker meanings (1969 was the year in which the civil strife in Belfast began). The song that closes the album, ‘Glad tinings’ (Felices encanados) is explained by Morrison like this: ‘It was a time when I lived in New York. A friend from London sent me a letter with an envelope written on it: ‘Glad Tinings from London’, so I wrote ‘glad tinings from New York’ and that’s where the idea came from’. It is the first in a series of songs that Van Morrison began recording thereafter, including on several of his albums a song criticizing the music industry. (‘Executives talking in numbers, people who interrupt you when you’re in a trance, strangers who ask you for things…’ Even the opening and closing line, ‘And they’ll lay you down low and easy’, can be interpreted in many ways…
Personnel:
Musicians
- Judy Clay – backing vocals (“Crazy Love” and “Brand New Day”)
- Emily Houston – backing vocals (“Crazy Love” and “Brand New Day”)
- John Klingberg – bass
- Jef Labes – clavinet, organ, piano
- Gary Mallaber – drums, percussion, vibraphone
- Guy Masson – congas
- Van Morrison – harmonica, production, rhythm guitar, tambourine, vocals
- John Platania – guitar
- Jack Schroer – alto and soprano saxophones
- Collin Tilton – flute, tenor saxophone
- Jackie Verdell – backing vocals (“Crazy Love” and “Brand New Day”)
CD 2000: ‘TWO AGAINST NATURE’ (Steely Dan)
On February 29, 2000, the eighth album of the duo Steely Dan was released, formed by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. After twenty years, they returned to a studio to record what can be considered the continuation of ‘Gaucho’, their last work together in 1990. 1980.
They also produced and arranged the wind section and featured superb session musicians such as Hugh McCracken and Dean Parks on guitars, Lou Marini and Chris Potter (saxophone) and Vinnie Colaiuta and Ricky Lawson on drums, among many others. The album received four Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Sound Engineering and Best Pop Vocal Performance (duo or group) for the first single to be released: ‘Cousin Dupree’.