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The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! FEB 16: Happy birthday to Andy Taylor, born today in 1961! Taylor began playing guitar as a preteen and soon he was playing in local bands. In 1980, he joined Duran Duran and shot to international fame. After leaving the band in the late 80s, he worked on his solo career and producing/writing/playing guitar for other artists, including Rod Stewart, Belinda Carlisle, Robert Palmer, and more. In 2022, Taylor along with his Duran Duran bandmates were inducted into the Rock and...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation have announced their Nominees for 2023 Induction. They are Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliot, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against The Machine, Soundgarden, The Soinners, A Tribe Called Quest, The White Stripes, and Warren Zevon.To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or band must have released its first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination.  An international voting body of over 1,000 artists, historians, and members of the music industry vote based on factors including "an artist’s musical influence on...

The week in music history brought to you by MusicGoldmine.com. Just a couple of highlights from this week in music history! FEB 7: Happy birthday to Garth Brooks, born today in 1962!Amazingly, Brooks is the only artist ever to have nine - yes 9 - albums go to diamond status (10M copies = Diamond). He is one of the best-selling artist's having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. Plus, he's supposedly a nice guy! FEB 12: Today, Burt Bacharach passed away at 94. His songs have been recorded by an astounding 1000+ different artists! As one of the most important and prolific...

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 Baker, born today in 1958! She released her debut album in 1983, but it was her album, Rapture, in 1986 that would catapult...

Who captured the first music industry gold record? Well, it depends on which type of gold record you're talking about. The earliest gold records were given out by recording companies who wanted to recognize and celebrate the achievements of artists whose music they had released. It's commonly thought that the first of these was awarded by RCA Victor's imprint Bluebird Records to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942 to celebrate the sale of over 1 million copies of their single "Chattanooga Choo Choo":  That said, there were probably many other such awards created around this period and certainly many more when Elvis...