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Singles Released This Week (September 22 – 28)

Albums Released from Sep 22 to Sep 28, 2025

This Week’s Birthdays (September 21 – 28)

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Notable Deaths in August 2025

Singles Released This Week (September 22 – 28)

Here's a sampling of charting singles (and B-Sides that charted) from rock and pop music from the 50s through the 80s...
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Albums Released from Sep 22 to Sep 28, 2025

Here's a sampling of the BEST music ever made! Great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop released this week...
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This Week’s Birthdays (September 21 – 28)

Happy Birthday this week to: September 21 (1913) . Janet Ertel / (Janet Ertel Bleyer) . Founding member and vocalist...
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Notable Deaths in August 2025

We note with sadness the following contributors to rock and pop music of the 50s through the 80s – the BEST music ever...
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Singles Released This Week (September 15 – 21)

Here's a sampling of charting singles (and B-Sides that charted) from rock and pop music from the 50s through the 80s...
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Albums Released This Week (September 15 -21)

Here's a sampling of the BEST music ever made! Great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop released this week...
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This Week’s Birthdays (September 14 – 20)

Happy Birthday this week to: September 14 (1914) . Mae Boren Axton . Country songwriter, the "Queen Mother of...
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Singles Released This Week (September 8 – 14)

Here's a sampling of charting singles (and B-Sides that charted) from rock and pop music from the 50s through the 80s...
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Albums Released This Week (September 8 – 14)

Here's a sampling of the BEST music ever made! Great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop released this week...
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This Week’s Birthdays (September 7 – 13)

Happy Birthday this week to: September 7 (1920) . Al Caiola / (Alexander Emil Caiola) . Session guitarist for Buddy...
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March 10 | Rock History

This Day in Rock History | Albums, Singles, Birthdays, Deaths, and Events.

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  • 1967, Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
  • 1967, Cat Stevens, Matthew & Son
  • 1972, Dolly Parton, Touch Your Woman
  • 1972, Thin Lizzy, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage
  • 1973, Carpenters, MAX 20 [Japan]
  • 1976, The Temptations, Wings Of Love
  • 1978, The Buzzcocks, Another Music In A Different Kitchen
  • 1979, Simple Minds, Life In A Day
  • 1998, Semisonic, Closing Time
  • 1992, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Under The Bridge
  • 1989, Eric Clapton, Bad Love
  • 1969, Led Zeppelin, Good Times, Bad Times
  • 1959, Elvis Presley, I Need Your Love Tonight
  • 1959, Elvis Presley, (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
  • 1983, Carrie Underwood
  • 1982, Jonathan Ansell
  • 1978, Benjamin Burnley
  • 1977, Matthew Rubano
  • 1977, Robin Thicke
  • 1975, Jerry Horton
  • 1973, John Charles LeCompt
  • 1971, Doug Ardito
  • 2025, Stedman Pearson
  • 2024, T. M. Stevens
  • 2024, Paul Nelson
  • 2023, Napoleon XIV
  • 2022, "Little Sister" Bobbie Nelson
  • 2017, Joni Sledge
  • 2016, Keith Emerson
  • 2016, Gogi Grant
  • 2015, [trim length=”80″ more=”…”]

    A jury awards Marvin Gaye's estate (his children Marvin III, Frankie and Nona) $7.3 million, finding that "Blurred Lines" is too similar to Gaye's 1977 hit "Got To Give It Up."

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  • 2014, [trim length=”80″ more=”…”]

    TV show host Bill O'Reilly gets fired up over Beyoncé's "Partition" video, which contains graphic scenes implying sex in a limousine. O'Reilly engages his guest Russell Simmons on the topic, saying it "harms impressionable children."

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  • 2010, [trim length=”80″ more=”…”]

    Pink Floyd won a court battle with EMI that prevented the record company from selling single downloads and ringtones on the Internet from the group's albums. Pink Floyd's back catalogue was second in sales to only the Beatles.

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  • 2009, [trim length=”80″ more=”…”]

    Ryan Adams marries the singer/actress Mandy Moore at a quiet ceremony in Savannah, Georgia.

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