Your Daily Shot Of Pop Culture
In 1991 Nirvana were invited to play the popular British TV Show Top Of The Pops. Not happy with the show’s demand to lip-sync Kurt Cobain literally tried to swallow the microphone while singing “Smells Like Teen Spirit” an octave lower
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Freddie Mercury embodied the Rock N’ Roll mythical excess during his life. We look back at the different sides of his life on the day that marks the anniversary of his untimely death on November 24th, 1991
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Featuring Slash on the guitar, “Black Or White” became the first single by an American to go into the UK singles chart at number one since 1960, when “It’s Now or Never” by Elvis Presley
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The album “Diamonds And Pearls” featured a string of hits mostly Funk oriented, and defined a highly creative period for Prince
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When Alternative Rock started to rule the music charts and airwaves all across the planet in the early 1990’s, U2 jumped quickly on the band wagon and released their single “The Fly”, reaching No.1 for the second time on the U.K singles charts
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Less than two months after the release of “Nevermind”, Nirvana, who were climbing the top of the charts with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, returned to Seattle where they played live most of their acclaimed album songs. The concert is now regarded as Nirvana at their peak
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Nirvana shredded into the mainstream on September 24th, 1991 with “Nevermind”.It was all too quick and too fast for Nirvana, their impact in music was tremendous and echoes to this day
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On this day in 1991 Michael Jackson was a guest voice on The Simpsons
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Hole’s debut album produced by Kim Gordon it’s one of the 90’s Alternative Rock seminal albums and gained a cult following among rock and punk music fans since it’s release on September 17th, 1991
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The 8 sided record that set a milestone in Rock music was released on September 1991. We revisit the Guns N’ Roses classic record
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Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” kick started the Alternative Rock revolution on September 10th, 1991
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As part of a Michael Jackson special to celebrate his 65th birthday, we take a quick overview at his top 3 most successful albums.
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“Ten” remains for some Pearl Jam’s best, or at least, the favorite for non-fans of the Seattle band that still dispute “Ten” as a Grunge album or a FM Rock album. We look back at this Rock music landmark released on August 27, 1991
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“Dallas” traced the stories of the feuding Ewing and Barnes families against the backdrop of the Texas oil industry.
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Jeff Ament and Dave Krusen are part of the original Pearl Jam line up. Ament has been an influential figure on Seattle’s Rock scene since the 1980’s and Krusen played all the drum tracks for Pearl Jam’s debut “Ten”. They both celebrate their birthdays today
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Whitney Houston was the most awarded female act of all time with 200 million records sold worldwide, one of music’s greatest voices, she passed away on this day in 2012 at age only 48. We remember her voice and music through the concert Live At Yokohama Arena, Japan 1991
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Pearl Jam’s seminal debut album “Ten” was released today 26 years ago.
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