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Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best-selling album in history.
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Thriller, the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, remains the best-selling album in history, with estimated sales of 65 to 66 million copies since its release in November 1982.
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AC / DC's Black in Black is the second best-selling album ever.
Back in Black is the seventh studio album by the Australian hard rock band AC / DC, released in 1980. It was recorded in the Bahamas and, for the second time, produced by Robert "Mutt" Lange, with Highway to Hell being the first time. selling more than 50 million copies in the world.
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Decade with the most One Hit Wonders in history.
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The decade of the 80s was the era of music with the most successful groups in history, however many of them only had 1 single success, so this time became the decade with the most One Hit Wonders in history.
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The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival.
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The Woodstock Festival was a hippie congregation with rock music performed from Friday the 15th until the early hours of Monday, August 18, 1969.
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The festival has become a pivotal moment in the history of popular music, as well as a watershed event for the generation of the counterculture.
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Thirty-two events took place during the festival, which attracted some 400,000 people (500,000, however, have declared themselves as attendees). 1
The event was recorded in the Oscar-winning documentary Woodstock: 3 days of peace & music; 2 as well as the soundtrack Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More. It has been considered one of the key moments in the history of popular music, as well as the nexus for the definitive consolidation of the counterculture of the 1960s.
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The Club of 27.
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The 27 club (in English, The 27 Club, Forever 27 Club or Club 27) is an expression used to refer to musicians, artists, and actors who died at the age of 27. Although a "statistical peak" for the death of musicians at such an age has been repeatedly disproved by science, it remains a cultural phenomenon, documenting the death of celebrities, usually related to their risky lifestyle. Because the club is completely notional, there are no official members.
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Members:
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Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison would die at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971, in a period of exactly two years, due to the date of death of Jones (July 3, 1969) and Morrison (3 July 1971).
At the time, the general public would not make any connection between the coincidence of ages. This same one would be mentioned from time to time, but it would be no more than isolated comments. It would not be until the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, almost two and a half decades after the others, that the idea of ​​"the 27 club" would begin to capture the attention of the public eye.
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List of best known Members:
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Bryan Jones - The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix - Guitarist
Janis Joplin - Singer
Jim Morrison - Singer The Doors
Kurt Cobain - Singer
Amy Winehouse - Singer
Alan Wilson - Canned Heat
Dirstman - Jamaican singer and DJ
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Live Aid Concert of 1985, Organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.
Live Aid (in Spanish, Direct Help) were two concerts held on July 13, 1985 simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London (England) and at JohnF Kenned Stadium in Philadelphia (United States), with the purpose of raising funds for the benefit of East African countries, specifically Ethiopia and Somalia. Few months before, mainly British artists, released the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" For the same purposes, American musicians also collaborated with the song "We Are The World" to raise funds.
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The large participation of artists made the event a great success and marked part of musical history, showing the world that music could raise awareness and help the people of Africa.
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The collection exceeded 100 million dollars, the concert was broadcast live via satellite in more than 72 countries and was one of the most watched music events in the world.
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On the occasion of this memorable concert, July 13 was declared World Rock Day.
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Disco music.
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Disco music or simply disco is a genre of dance music derived from rhythm and blues that mixed elements of previous genres, such as soul and funk, with touches of symphonic music embodied in string arrangements (violins, for example) and Latin in many cases, and which became popular in party rooms (discos) in the second half of the 1970s.
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Disco music takes its roots from soul in the late 1960s, and an important number of artists of the genre take part in this process of evolution, gradually contributing the elements that will end up defining disco music. Barry White is one of these links and the first to highlight the role of an insistent rhythm accompanying melodies and orchestral arrangements. However, perhaps it is Jerry Butler's theme, Only the Strong Survive (1969), the first example of combining the elements that would define disco music. This song brought together the soul sounds of Philadelphia and New York, along with the evolutions of the Motown sound.
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Philadelphia soul, precisely, was characterized by its mixture of repetitively hypnotic percussion with string arrangements, and its imprint is clearly seen in songs such as "K-Jee" (1971) by The Nite-Liters and "Love Is The Message" (1972) by MFSB. The production "Soul Makossa" (1972), by the Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango, was one of the first disco hits. However, the term disco was not used until the critic Vince Aletti included it in Rolling Stone magazine, in his article "Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!", On the new trend of dance clubs that began to emerge in New York.
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Between 1975-1979 its considered the golden age of Disco Music.
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The greatest concert in history was made by Rod Steward.
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At the end of the year in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, with the British Rod Stewart playing for free on the Brazilian beach, he managed to gather for the first time 3,500,000 people in an open-air concert. The reason was none other than to celebrate the arrival of the new year and the fireworks.
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Disco Studio 54.
Founded by Steve Rubell
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Studio 54 is an old and popular nightclub and disco in the New York arts sector of Broadway, located on West 54th Street in Manhattan, New York, popular in the late 70s and a place frequented by high-profile celebrities from the United States and Europe .
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The nightclub was opened in 1927 as Gallo Opera House, and throughout the years it changed its activity and names, being also used by CBS for the recording and transmission of radio programs, under the name of CBS Studio 52.
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Under the name of Studio 54, the theater turned into a disco opened its doors on April 26, 1977 and was closed in February 1980 due to legal problems of its founders.4 Its heyday coincided with the fever for disco music and with an era of sexual freedom that was truncated by the appearance of AIDS. Later it returned to be a theater of the Broadway circuit.
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Soon after, Rubell and Schrager were arrested for tax evasion of approximately $ 2.5 million. Rubell responded by accusing a senior Jimmy Carter government official of having consumed cocaine in the basement of the premises. After its closure in 1980, packages of cocaine and money were found hidden behind the walls of the nightclub.
The closing party for Studio 54 took place in February 1980 and was called "The End of Modern Gomorrah"; Diana Ross, Ryan O'Neal, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone attended. The last glass ever poured is said to have been drunk by Stallone. Diana Ross was the one who closed the final show of the disco.
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In 1981, the business was sold for about $ 2.2 million to another businessman, who in turn gave it to nightclub owner Mark Fleischman for double the money. Studio 54 reopened with guests such as Calvin Klein, Cary Grant, and Gina Lollobrigida. However, the context had changed and it was less liberal than before.