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December 4, 2023 1 min
Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History
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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out It's the
rock Omanac on iHeartRadio. What's happeningrock and roll lovers, It's Andy West.
Let's get it started. We kickit off. This week in nineteen
sixty eight, the Rolling Stones holda Beggars Banquet at Elizabeth Rooms, London
to promote the release of the newalbum with the same name, Beggars Banquet.

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The banquet ends with a pie Fighter. This week in nineteen seventy five,
the self titled Fleetwood Mac album,the first with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie
Nicks, is certified gold. Itwill spawn three top forty hits, over
My Head, Rhiannon and Say YouLove Me. This week in nineteen seventy
six, Paul McCartney releases Wings OverAmerica, a thirty song triple LP set

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recorded on his first post Beatles UStour. This week in nineteen eighty nine,
Billy joels we Didn't Start the Fire. It's number one. This week.
In nineteen ninety four, Bush's firstalbum, sixteen Stone is released in
the US, which became their biggestalbum ever, spawning five hit singles.
Can You Guess the biggest, itwas glycerine. This week in twenty eleven,

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thirty Seconds to Mars breaks the recordfor most shows performed during a single
album cycle when they played their threehundredth concert in support of their album This
Is War at the Hammerstein Ballroom inNew York City. And this week in
twenty fifteen, Janis Joplin's psychedelic paintedPorsche cells for one point seven six million

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dollars at auction, and that's whatwent down. You're rock Omanac on iHeartRadio.
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