Guests, but most of all Stars!
I was thinking… sometimes yo go to a concert, and all of a sudden they call a guest star on the stage. or better, maybe he is a guest, but he isn’t always a star, even if we are accustomed to treating as stars every sort of low-level guests from every kind of talent show.
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Scorpions – Still Loving You
The Beatles are from 1960, the Stones from 1962 and the Scorpions from 1965, although, actually, they used their final name only since 1969.
This German band, famous for the sexually provocative covers of albums, reached the peak of success in the 1980s,
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In these very days, the first summer nights, in the disco clubs in the towns, in the seaside resorts.. this song was everywhere – and sometimes still is! Those were the full glory days of the so called Italo-disco, which we will explore later in full details.
But htis song really left me sort of,
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Phil Collins – Against all odds
Will “Against all odds” become an evergreen of the 80s? Come on, it was so clear already in Spring 1984, that this song was going to live forever. When Phil Collins wrote this song, he was at the top of his career. But this song,
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Odd and even, that is, Duran and Spandau, in the 80s.
30 years ago today, May 25, 1984, “Parade” was being released. Not Spandau’s first album, but probably the first to deserve worldwide success, and it will happen again in few years for “Through the barricades”.
Looking at the video,
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Beloved Dinosaurs, 30 years ago (yesterday) a band who was well known in the US and also in Europe was releasing their countless album. It’s Chicago, with lead singer Peter Cetera. His name always reminded me of a barber who had his shop in the street where I lived, and had a quite similar name.
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