This Day In Music

This day in music history –

1968 – The Graduate soundtrack is number #1 mostly due to Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson,” which goes to number one on the charts less than two months later

1974 -Billy Joel scores his first Top 40 hit with “Piano Man,” which comes in at #33 (it peaks at #25 two weeks later).

1974 – ABBA become European stars overnight when their song  “Waterloo” wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

And it was on this day in 1992, Annie Lennox releases her first solo album, DIVA, with hits including “Why” and “Walking On Broken Glass”.

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This post was written by Carrie Buchanan