It’s the best day of the week! Today on Throwback Tuesday, we’re traveling way, way back to 1988! Hold onto your hats!
January 20th – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony inducts The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan and The Supremes.
March 26th – Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson from the Bad album tops the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the first time in history a solo artist has had four Number One singles from the same album.
http://youtu.be/pEQAie8ABLE
May 14th – Atlantic Records stages a concert at Madison Square Garden celebrating its Fortieth birthday with performances by many of the label’s greatest acts of the past. Artists include Crosby, Stills & Nash, Iron Butterfly, Ruth Brown, Foreigner and Wilson Pickett, but the most talked-about performance is by a reunited Led Zeppelin with Jason Bonham on drums.
http://youtu.be/QMaYKOacxiY
May 27th – The Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 commences in East Troy, Wisconsin. Van Halen headlines with the other acts on the massive bill consisting of Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken and Kingdom Come.
July 2nd – Michael Jackson with fifth single from Bad, Dirty Diana, he broke the record to have five consecutive charting singles from same album at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, is the first artist and only male in history to get this done.
November 12th – U2’s Rattle and Hum hits the Number One spot on the U.S. charts, the first double album to do so since Bruce Springsteen’s The River in 1980.
http://youtu.be/q3GU3VCJxT8
December 4th – Singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio, USA, before his death from a massive heart attack.