Historic events this week from Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Bob Dylan and Van Halen
FEBRUARY 4, 1977: FLEETWOOD MAC’S RUMOURS
With over 40 million sold, Rumours is the #5 best-selling studio album of all time, and spent 31 non-consecutive weeks at #1, less than a year after its release.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2007: PRINCE’S HALF-TIME SHOW
Prince performed one of the greatest and most memorable halftime shows in history.
The setlist included Purple Rain classics “Let’s Go Crazy”, “Baby I’m a Star” & “Purple Rain”, as well as Queen’s “We Will Rock You”, CCR’s “Proud Mary”, Foo Fighters’ “Best of You” and Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.”
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FEBRUARY 7, 1976: BOB DYLAN’s DESIRE IS #1
Dylan’s 17th studio album was his third to go to #1 in the US, after Planet Waves and Blood on the Tracks.
The album contained the protest song, “Hurricane”, about the wrongful conviction of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter.
At 5-straight weeks, Desire spent more time at #1 than any other Bob Dylan album.
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FEBRUARY 10, 1978: VAN HALEN’S DEBUT ALBUM
Van Halen’s self-titled debut was recorded in 3 weeks for $40,000. Containing “Jamie’s Cryin’”, “Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love”, “Runnin’ with the Devil” and a cover of The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me”, it has sold well over 10 million copies in the US alone.
