1976 Barry Manilow's "
I Write The Songs," written by Bruce Johnston of
The Beach Boys, hits #1 in America. It goes on to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
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2015 Smoother than a fresh jar of Skippy: "
Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson (with vocals by Bruno Mars) goes to #1 and stays for an amazing 14 weeks, making it the biggest hit of 2015. Hanging around the chart at #36 is "
Riptide" by Vance Joy, which also mentions the actress Michelle Pfeiffer in the lyric.
1967 London's Daily Mail newspaper carries an article about potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire, inspiring John Lennon to mention it in "
A Day In The Life."
1959 Susanna Hoffs is born in Los Angeles, California. She forms
the Bangles after answering an ad placed by the sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson.
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