This Week In History Nov 7-20 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! NOV 15: Today in 1981, Olivia Newton-John was at the top of the charts with "Physical". The song would stay at #1 for 10 weeks - making it ONJ's biggest U.S. hit! How about that video?!!! NOV 18: Happy 60th birthday to Kirk Hammett of Metallica, born today in 1962!The guitarist has been with Metallica since 1983 and can often be found at the top of multiple...

This Week In Music History Jan 16-29 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! JAN 19: Sad news today, David Crosby has passed away at age 81 after a long illness. The singer-songwriter and guitarist was a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash - he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with each. RIP Photo courtesy: David Gans [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.e JAN 26: Happy birthday to Anita...

This Week In Music History Feb 27-Mar 12 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! MAR 8: Happy birthday to Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees, born today in 1945! Dolenz is the only surviving member of the pop group. He was the only member to be a part of every inception of the band. Want more content like this? Subscribe to our free MusicGoldmine newsletter which comes out every two weeks. Go here to sign up. Be the envy of all your friends! Get MusicGo...

Ultra Rare Artist Autographs Highlight These Classic Rock Collages We've just listed three exciting collages sure to appeal to classic rock collectors featuring signatures from all the members of Buffalo Springfield, Iron Butterfly, and Led Zeppelin. These collages are particularly rare since they include either autographs of band members who are no longer with us, such as Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, or autographs that are rarely seen together, such as Neil Young and Stephen Stills signatures written during their Buffalo Springfield origins. The Step...

This Week In Music History Oct 24-Nov 6 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! OCT 26: Happy birthday to Natalie Merchant, born today in 1963! Best known as the original lead singer of the indie-pop band 10,000 Maniacs, Merchant left in 1993 to pursue a solo career. Photo courtesy: Justin Higuchi [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en] NOV 3: Happy Birthday to Adam Ant, born today in 1954! Stuart Leslie Goddard's first band wa...

Latest RIAA Top 10 All-Time: Zeppelin Ascends Over the last year the best performer on the RIAA’s all-time U.S. best-selling album sales chart was Led Zeppelin IV, moving up two spots to #5 while passing the Beatles "white album" and Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Vol I & II. Meanwhile the Beatles "white album" also made a move, pipping Joel by one spot to move up to #6. The major move up the chart made last year by AC/DC’s venerable Back In Black remains intact, however, keeping them at #4 and the Eagles still hold the...

This Week In Music History Oct 10-23 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! OCT 12: Today in 1974, the group Blondie performed for the first time as Blondie at CBGB's in NYC! Originally, they were billed as Angel and the Snake before renaming themselves Blondie - supposedly derived from the catcalls of truck drivers directed at Debbie Harry of "Hey, Blondie!" OCT 15: Today in 1988, UB40 was at #1 with "Red Red Wine". The so...

This Week In Music History Sept 26-Oct 9 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! OCT 7: Today in 1995, Alanis Morrissette was at the top of the U.S. album charts with one of the best-selling albums of all-time, Jagged Little Pill. The album has sold over 33 million copies worldwide and won five of the nine Grammys that it was nominated for in 1996! SEPT 28: Today, rapper Coolio passed away at the age of 59. Coolio gained prominence with the theme s...

This Week In Music History Aug 15-28 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! AUG 18: Today in 1962, Ringo Starr made his debut with the Beatles at a gig in Birkenhead, England! This is the quartet that would soon become known around the world: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. AUG 27: Happy birthday to Alex Lifeson of Rush, born today in 1953! Lifeson co-founded the band that would become Rush in 1968. The guitarist...

This Week In Music History Sept 12-25 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! SEPT 20: Today in 1984, John Waite topped the charts with "Missing You". Ironically, one of the most recognizable songs from the 80s only spent one week at #1 - the only song to do so in all of 1984! It also gave the Brit a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance Male. SEPT 13: Happy birthday to Peter Cetera, born today in 1944!🎂🎤Cetera is best known a...

This Week In Music History Aug 1-14 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! AUG 1: Today in 1985, Tears for Fears was at #1 with "Shout", their second U.S. number one! It would stay there for three weeks and became one of the standout songs of 1985. AUG 9: Today in 1995, legendary frontman Jerry Garcia of the rock band Grateful Dead died from a heart attack at age 53. Garcia was one of the founding members and performed with the band f...

This Week In Music History Aug 29-Sept 11 The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! SEPT 8: Today in 1973, Marvin Gaye was at the top of the charts with the soul classic "Let's Get It On". Written by Gaye and Ed Townsend, the song would stay at #1 for two weeks. SEPT 11: This week 35 years ago in 1987, the Pet Shop Boys released "actually" (stylized on the album as "Pet Shop Boys, actually"). It was their second album and p...