Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Retroscope: 27 March

27 March 1982: The Goombay Dance Band scored their only UK #1 hit with "Seven Tears" making them the second German act to do so, Kraftwerk being the first.
27 March 1984: Metallica made their UK live debut at the Marquee, London. Bryan Adams recorded "Run To You" for his fourth studio album "Reckless" in Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver, Canada. It gave him his first UK hit peaking at #11. The music video was shot in London and Los Angeles and was nominated for the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards in five different categories.
27 March 1987: U2 performed from the roof of a store in downtown LA to make the video for "Where The Streets Have No Name" naturally attracting thousands of spectators and bringing traffic to a standstill.

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