Michael Jackson's Thriller album goes to #1

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks on February 26, 1983.




Retro History for February 25 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 634 performances
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65)
1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
1987 U.S.S.R. resumes nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987 Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
1986 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
1985 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins
1984 Last U.S. Marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse
1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called New York City, "Hymietown"
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate
1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks
1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs. Australia Wellington, run out 9
1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released
1981 84 penalties (406 minutes) assessed for a brawl between NHL Minnesota and Boston
1981 French Train Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run
1980 Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1980 Miltary coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname
1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs. Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in New York City
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1977 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore New York City for 75 performances
1975 1st televised kidney transplant on the Today Show
1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125
1970 "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 4 performances
1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, to become NWA champ
1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Dutch Government of Marijnen falls
1965 West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
1962 Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York City
1962 U.S. Supreme Court disallows race separation on public transportation
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs. New York
1960 Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
1960 USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
1956 Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1955 "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 149 performances
1955 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts
1954 Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock and roll) records
1953 Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA
1952 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York City

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August 29 - Today In Rock Music History

We Miss You Michael! Your Spirit Lives On...



Musicians Born On August 29

1920 Charlie Parker (US jazz saxophonist)
1924 Dinah Washington (Ruth Jones)
1943 Dick Halligan (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1945 Chris Copping (Paramounts)
1953 Rick Downey (Blue Oyster Cult)
1958 Michael Jackson (Thriller)
1958 Lenny Henry (Comic Relief)
1959 Eddie Reader (Fairground Attraction)
1969 Me'Shell Ndegeocello

Deaths On August 291

1976 Jimmy Reed (blues performer)

Number 1 In The Charts On August 29

1970 Edwin Starr: 'War' US 45
1981 Aneka: 'Japanese Boy' UK 45
1981 ELO: 'Time' UK LP
1987 Rick Astley: 'Never Gonna Give You Up' UK 45
1987 Def Leppard: 'Hysteria' UK LP
1987 Los Lobos: 'La Bamba' US 45
1992 Smiths : Best....1 : UK LP

Various Music Events On August 29

1954 Louis Jordan begins four-month American road tour in El Paso, Texas

1958 George Harrison joins Paul McCartney and John Lennon in Quarrymen

1958 Alan Freed's 'Big Beat Show' opens at Brooklyn's Fox Theatre, a change of venue following the summer rock-and-roll riots. Frankie Avalon, Bill Haley, Danleers and Chuck Berry share the bill

1966 Beatles play last onstage gig at Candlestick Park in San Francisco

1981 U2 debut on UK LP chart with 'Boy'

1981 'Rock on the Tyne' festival begins in Gateshead, UK, featuring Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, U2 etc.

1996 Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic "Soul Man," sends a protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole after hissupporters had changed the lyrics to "I'm A Dole Man."


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Michael Jackson - Thriller Song Lyrics

It's close to midnight
something evil's lurkin' from the dark
under moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As terror looks you right between your eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
And no one's gonna save you
From the beast about to strike
You know it's killer
Thriller night
You're fighting for your life
Inside a killer
Thriller tonight, yeah

You hear the door slam
And realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand
And wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes
And hope that this is just imagination
Girl, but all the while
You hear a creature creepin' up behind
You're outta time

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
There ain't no second chance
to count the thing with the forty eyes, girl
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
You're fighting for your life
Inside a killer
Thriller tonight

Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

They're out to get you
There's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you
Unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night
I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller
Thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
So let me hold you tight
And share a
killer, diller, chiller
Thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try
(Thriller)
(Thriller night)
So let me hold you tight
And share a
(killer, thriller)

I'm gonna thrill you tonight

[Rap]
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'all's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell

I'm gonna thrill you tonight
(Thriller, thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
(Thriller night, thriller)
I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Ooh, babe, I'm gonna thrill you tonight
Thriller night, babe

[Rap]
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
for no mere mortal can resist
the evil of the thriller

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June 25 - Today In Rock Music History

Happy Birthday Carly Simon!



Musicians Born On June 25

1935 Eddie Floyd (Knock on Wood)
1945 Carly Simon (You're So Vain)
1946 Ian McDonald (King Crimson/Foreigner)
1946 Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult)
1949 Clint Warwick (Moody Blues)
1952 Tim Finn (Crowded House)
1954 David Paich (Toto)
1963 George Michael (Careless Whisper)

Deaths On June 25

2009 Michael Jackson



Number 1 In The Charts On June 25

1964 Roy Orbison UK 45
1966 Beatles: Paperback Writer US 45
1977 Jacksons: Show You the Way to Go UK 45
1977 The Muppets: The Muppet Show UK LP
1977 Marvin Gaye: Got to Give It Up US 45
1988 Bros: I Owe You Nothing UK 45
1983 Police: Synchronicity UK LP
1994 Cranberries : Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? : UK LP
1994 Stone Temple Pilots : Purple : US LP

Various Music Events On June 25



1966 Yardbirds hit US chart with Over Under Sideways Down

1966 One of the first big West Coast rock concerts takes place at the Hollywood Bowl. Bands include Byrds, Beach Boys, Captain Beefheart, Lovin' Spoonful, Sir Douglas Quintet and Love

1967 Beatles record All You Need Is Love during worldwide TV link up on 'One World' programme. Recording mixed and released for 7 July

1969 Rolling Stones play first concert with Mick Taylor on guitar in Rome at Coliseum

1977 Tom Petty debuts on UK chart with Anything That's Rock and Roll

1978 Cream briefly re-form for concert at Ginger Baker's Polo Club, but advance publicity is so great they call it off

1982 Rolling Stones play first of two sell-out gigs at Wembley Stadium


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