Rayman

Kick was released in October 1987 and provided the band with worldwide popularity, it peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 3 on the US, No. 9 in UK, and No. 15 in Austria.In addition, it  yielded four Top 10 US singles, New Sensation,  Never Tear Us Apart, Devil Inside, and the No. 1 Need You Tonight .   In Sept

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It's a funny story how this album got it's name.The album is named after an incident at The Pump Room restaurant in Chicago. Collins (entering the restaurant with Robert Plant ) was denied admittance because he did not meet the restaurant's dress code of "jacket required" for dinner, while Plant was allowed in, Collins was wearing a jacket, and argued about it. Management argued that the jacket was not "proper". Collins, in an interview with Playboy, said that he was, at that point, never so mad in his life. After the incident, the singer often appeared on several shows denouncing the restaurant and telling his story.The management of the restaurant later sent him a complimentary sport coat and apology letter.

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It's been a strange Winter and Spring here in the Northland hasn't it? I had a bet the lake would not be totally open until May 15th. I lost the bet, it opened on the 14th. Most of the boaters figured the docks would be out perhaps as early as the 18th, but due to circumstances beyond our control (don't you just love when people say that), two of the three weren't installed until yesterday. Last weekend we had several boaters unload their boats from the trailer, push them out into the water, jump aboard and away they went.

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Having lived in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, I'm no stranger to tornadoes.With the devastating tornado on Moore Oklahoma yesterday, a brief explanation coupled with a video might help those who wonder how tornadoes form in the first place.

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Opening with the sound of glass shattering, Glass Houses has more of a hard rock feel than Joel's previous albums. The cover shows Joel poised to throw a rock through the two-story window of his real-life waterfront glass house in Oyster Bay. This alludes to the adage that "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

Released on March 10, 1980. It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard"  Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on Billboard's 1980 year-end album chart.

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I'm not the expert in the family when it comes to preparing foods and desserts,  Mrs. Rayman handles that a lot better than I ever could. I'm not sure what category S'mores would come under, (maybe snacks?) but she recently came across square marshmallows that make a perfect, easy to eat S'more. Just in time for Memorial Day too!

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This past weekend was beautiful in Lake Nebagamon, so I decided it was time for me to get busy with Spring cleanup duties. Cleaning out the garage, spreading soil and seeding the lawn, bringing out the lawn furniture, stuff like that.

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1984 remains one of Van Halen's most popular albums in terms of sales (with 12 million copies sold in the U.S. alone), (reaching #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Charts and remaining there for 5 weeks.

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Like a Virgin is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna , released on November 12, 1984. After its release, Like a Virgin received mixed reviews from the critics, but was a commercial success. It became Madonna's first number one album on the Billboard 200, while reaching the top of the charts in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom. The (RIAA) certified it Diamond for shipment of ten million copies across the United States. Worldwide it has sold 21 million copies, becoming one of the best selling albums of all time.

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Born in the U.S.A. was the best-selling album of 1985 in the United States (and also Springsteen's most successful album ever). The album produced a record-tying string of seven Top 10 singles.

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Guns N' Roses debut album Appetite for Destruction zoomed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, primarily because of the hit Sweet Child o' Mine, their only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The album has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide including 18 million units sold in the United States, making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. at that time.

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Here are the top ten songs were were listening to on the radio thirty years ago this very day. I'm sure you'll recognize some of these. Do you have any of these in your music library? Golly, thirty years ago I had just started working in Boston. What were you doing in 1983?  Here are the top ten.

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