Week of October 23rd

Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History

Episode Transcript

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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 goingon, rock and roll lovers, It's
Andy West. Let's kick it off, we get it started. In nineteen
seventy, Elton John releases Your Song, which becomes his first hit. This
week. In nineteen seventy one,John Lennon and Yoko Ono record the demo

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of Happy Christmas. War Is Overin their Greenwich Village apartment in New York.
This week. In nineteen seventy five, Bruce Springsteen made history by becoming
the first rock star to land onthe cover of Time and Newsweek in the
same week. The articles were writtenin response to the breakthrough success of Born
to Run, which had been releasedtwo months earlier. This week in nineteen

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seventy eight, Hot Child in theCity by Nick Gilder goes to number one
in the US Job Jumping Ahead.This week in nineteen ninety eight, Rim
play an exclusive concert for BBC RadioOne at the Radio Theater at Broadcasting House
in London for an audience primarily consistingof fan club members and contest winners.

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This week in nineteen ninety nine,Crosby Stills, Nash and Young release Looking
Forward, the foursome's first album togetherin eleven years and only their third studio
recording ever. And this week,in the year two thousand, Lincoln Park
released their debut album, Hybrid Theory. Bolstered by the hit in the End
and the Grammy Award winning Crawling,it becomes the best selling album of two

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thousand and one. And that's whatwent down to Your Rock Omanac on iHeartRadio.