If you have an extra bounce in your step today and you don’t know why, it’s probably because it’s Justin Bieber’s 19th birthday. Expect some Lohanian missteps any day now.
For sure the world totally changed forever today in 1973 when Pink Floyd released “The Dark Side of the Moon.” At over 50 million copies sold, it’s among the biggest selling albums of all time and it was on the top 100 chart from 1973 until 1988. I’ll cop to just not getting it. But I don’t do acid and light shows are only cool to me for about a minute and a half.
I will cop to liking the Cranberries, “Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” which was released today in 1993. It had the hits, “Dreams,” “Linger” and “Sunday.” It sold much less than Pink Floyd, because more people like to take drugs than admit to liking girlie music. Somewhere in between was Beck’s “Mellow Gold,” which hit shelves today in 1994. It had the hits “Loser,” and “Beercan.”
Nirvana gave their final concert tonight in Munich in 1994. Kurt Cobain’s long descent began picking up steam.
If you think you’ve had a bad day, just remember that today in 1692, three women were brought before magistrates in Massachusetts, thus beginning “The Salem Witch Trials.”
Happy Birthday to Opie! Ron Howard turns 59 years old today. His top 10 (director):
- Apollo 13
- Cinderella Man
- Night Shift
- A Beautiful Mind
- Willow
- Splash
- Far and Away
- Frost/Nixon
- Cocoon
- Backdraft
— Bill Hubbell
Looooooooved Backdraft as a teen. Poster on my wall, read the book, bought the soundtrack. Zimmer score still holds up very well, especially because he tends to recycle his good stuff into other scores. I think I should prop up Billy Baldwin as the most apolitical of the major Baldwins. If you count Adam in that tier, it’s probably a tie.