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Feature Year: 1978 (Part 1 – 9am – Part 2 – 9pm ET) @RadioMax

Music_Of_The_Year_1978January 14 – The Sex Pistols play their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom
January 16 – Elton John appears on this week’s People Magazine without his trademark glasses. John would still wear glasses occasionally for the next ten years until wearing them permanently again
January 21 – As Saturday Night Fever becomes a cultural phenomenon, the soundtrack hits on the Billboard Charts, where it will stay until July
January 25 – Electric Light Orchestra kick off their “Out of the Blue” world tour in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bob Dylan makes his directorial debut in the surrealist film Renaldo and Clara, shot during his Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
January 28 – By request, Ted Nugent autographs his name into a fan’s arm with a bowie knife in Philadelphia
February 4 – Elton John appears as the guest star on The Muppet Show.
February 10 – Van Halen debuts with self-titled album; Eddie Van Halen introduces a powerful new sound and technique to world, while David Lee Roth is ushered in as the front man
March 18 – California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California. Over 300,000 fans come to see Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Santana, Dave Mason, Foreigner, Heart and more
April 22 – In the Eurovision Song Contest in Paris, France, victory goes to Israel’s entry “A-Ba-Ni-Bi”, performed by Izhar Cohen & The Alphabeta
The “One Love Peace Concert” is held in Kingston, Jamaica, headlined by Bob Marley, making his first concert appearance since December 1976. Steve Martin performs the original “King Tut” on Saturday Night Live; also that night, The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on the show.
May 6 – The Knack is formed (first album released in 1979)
May 13 – Barry Gibb becomes the only songwriter in history to have written 4 consecutive singles on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart
May 18 – The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, is released. It would win the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score, and earn a nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Busey) and Best Sound
May 25 – In a performance used for The Kids Are Alright, The Who play their last show with Keith Moon
June 10 – The Rolling Stones begin their 25-date US summer tour in Lakeland, Florida
June 13 – The Cramps play a free concert for patients at the Napa State Mental Hospital
June 16 – The film adaptation of the musical Grease, opens in theaters and is a box office hit
June 20 – Grace Slick splits with Jefferson Starship the day after a disastrous concert in Hamburg, Germany, in which a heavily intoxicated Slick verbally abused the crowd and groped various fans and band mates
June 29 – Peter Frampton is nearly killed in a car accident in The Bahamas, suffering multiple broken bones, a concussion, and muscle damage
July 1 – The first Texxas Jam is held over the July 4 long weekend at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The first day features Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Heart, Journey, Head East, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Eddie Money, Van Halen and Walter Egan. Sunday consists of Willie Nelson headlining his sixth annual Fourth of July picnic
July 19 – Dead Kennedys play their first concert, at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco, California
July 21 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a much-hyped musical film starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees performing the music of The Beatles, opens in theaters. The film is savaged by critics and proves a box office disappointment
July 30 – Thin Lizzy officially announces that Gary Moore has replaced Brian Robertson on guitar
August 26 – 80,000 concertgoers attend Mosport Speedway in Ontario for the first “Canada Jam Festival”, featuring sets by the Doobie Brothers, Commodores, Kansas, Village People, Dave Mason, the Atlanta Rhythm Section and Triumph
September 7 – The Who drummer Keith Moon dies in a central London flat after a prescription drug overdose at the age of 32
September 14–16 – The Grateful Dead perform three shows in Giza, Egypt, very close to the Sphinx and Great Pyramid
October 12 – Nancy Spungen, the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is found dead in a hotel room of a stab wound. Sid is arrested and charged with her murder
October 24 – Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards pleads guilty to the charge of possessing heroin in Toronto in 1977
October 29 – Michael Schenker plays his final show with UFO in Stanford, California before leaving the group to rejoin Scorpions
November – A now sober Alice Cooper releases the album From the Inside, which tells of his stay in rehab for alcoholism
November 25 – Aerosmith cuts a concert short after Steven Tyler suffers cuts to his face from a bottle that shatters upon hitting a stage monitor
November 27 – Def Leppard’s permanent drummer Rick Allen joins the band at the age of 15
December – Matthias Jabs joins Scorpions, replacing Uli Jon Roth.
December 31 – The seventh annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special airs on ABC, with performances by Barry Manilow, Village People, Chuck Mangione, Tanya Tucker and Rick James
CBS airs New Year’s Eve with Guy Lombardo for the final time, nearly two years after the band leader’s death and ending a 22 year run that began in 1956
Kenny Rogers continues his highly successful solo career with the single (and album) “The Gambler” and will go on to star in no less than 5 movies based around the song.
In the UK, singles sales are at their all-time high this year, boosted by the simultaneous peak of the disco and punk phenomena and the success of singles from the movie Grease.
Mozambique holds its first National Dance Festival, involving half a million people.

 

Top 70 Charts

RadioMax Top 70 Chart – July 28, 2013
1 3 CAPITAL CITIES
Safe And Aound		 9 1
2 2 ROBIN THICKE Featuring T.I. & PHARRELL
Blurred Lines		 10 1
3 1 IMAGINE DRAGONS
Radioactive		 36 1
4 7 MAROON 5
Love Somebody		 13 4
5 5 BRUNO MARS
Treasure		 13 4
6 8 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Take Back The Night		 3 6
7 12 P!NK Featuring LILY ALLEN
True Love		 6 7
8 9 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Featuring MARY LAMBERT
Same Love		 9 8
9 4 JASON DERULO
The Other Side		 15 4
10 25 AVICCI
Wake Me Up		 4 10
11 14 RIHANNA Featuring DAVID GUETTA
Right Now		 8 11
12 10 MILEY CYRUS
We Can’t Stop		 8 9
13 33 LABRINTH Featuring EMELI SANDE
Beneath Your Beautiful		 7 13
14 37 PHILLIP PHILLIPS
Gone, Gone, Gone		 26 2
15 6 DAFT PUNK & PHARRELL
Get Lucky		 13 1
16 22 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
Round Here		 9 14
17 39 SELENA GOMEZ
Come & Get It		 15 4
18 38 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Featuring NELLY
Cruise		 15 9
19 45 SARA BAREILLES
Brave		 15 16
20 11 CALVIN HARRIS & ELLIE GOULDING
I Need Your Love		 17 10
21 41 AUSTIN MAHONE
What About Love		 7 18
22 19 CARRIE UNDERWOOD
See You Again		 16 18
23 13 JASON ALDEAN
Night Train		 3 13
24 16 KEITH URBAN
Little Bit Of Everything		 10 13
25 17 JAY-Z Featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Holy Grail		 3 17
26 20 HUNTER HAYES
I Want Crazy		 16 19
27 67 PEARL JAM
Mind Your Manners		 2 27
28 28 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Featuring RAY DALTON
Can’t Hold Us		 16 2
29 70 TIM MCGRAW
Southern Girl		 2 29
30 31 KENNY CHESNEY
When I See This Bar		 7 30
31 42 MIRANDA LAMBERT
All Kinds of Kinds		 5 31
32 58 GAVIN DEGRAW
Best I Ever Had		 5 32
33 63 LANA DEL RAY
Summertime Sadness		 3 33
34 18 LADY ANTEBELLUM
Goodbye Town		 11 12
35 21 LEE BRICE
Parking Lot Party		 4 21
36 44 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Mirrors		 19 1
37 24 KE$HA Featuring WILL.I.AM
Crazy Kids		 14 16
38 32 TAYLOR SWIFT
Red		 4 32
39 57 MATCHBOX TWENTY
Our Song		 16 39
40 32 JOHN MAYER
Paper Doll		 6 21
41 26 ONEREPUBLIC
Counting Stars		 5 26
42 36 ZAC BROWN BAND
Jump Right In		 21 13
43 15 BRITNEY SPEARS
Ohh La La		 6 12
44 27 BILLY CURRINGTON
Hey Girl		 15 17
45 29 TOBY KEITH
Drinks After Work		 7 29
46 46 JACK JOHNSON
I Got You		 6 46
47 47 CASSADEE POPE
Wasting All These Tears		 7 45
48 54 NEIGHBORHOOD
Sweater Weather		 4 48
49 60 KELLY CLARKSON
Tie It Up		 5 49
50 61 NIKKI WILLIAMS
Glowing		 12 31
51 69 DARIUS RUCKER
Radio		 2 51
52 59 A GREAT BIG WORLD
This Is The New Year		 3 52
53 30 TYLER FARR
Redneck Crazy		 8 30
54 50 FALL OUT BOY
My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Lighten Up)		 24 3
55 43 BAND PERRY
Done		 21 18
56 34 LUKE BRYAN
Crash My Party		 15 19
57 35 EMBLEM 3
Chloe (You’re The One I Want)		 8 35
58 40 ICONA POP
I Love It		 25 3
59 49 WALK OFF THE EARTH
Red Hands		 20 9
60 68 JOHN FOGERTY
Mystic Highway		 2 60
61 66 ROB ZOMBIE
We’re An American Band		 2 61
62 64 ELTON JOHN
Home Again		 2 64
63 62 HUNTER HAYES Featuring JASON MRAZ
Everybody Got Somebody But Me		 3 62
64 N DEMI LOVATO
Made In The U.S.A.		 1 64
65 N TAYLOR SWIFT Featuring ED SHEERAN
Everything Has Changed		 1 65
66 N ONE DIRECTION
Best Song Ever		 1 66
67 N PANIC AT THE DISCO
Miss Jackson		 1 67
68 N ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
Turn The Night Up		 1 68
69 N ED SHEERAN
You Don’t Need Me		 1 69
70 N ICONA POP
All Night		 1 70
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Feature Year: 1984 6pm ET

This edition of Feature Year looks at the hits and music of 1984.

January 1 – US Bell System is broken up.
January 1 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928) Died
January 13 – Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright (3OH!3)
January 21 – Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934) Died
January 24 – The Apple Macintosh is introduced.
January 30 – Kid Cudi, American hip hop artist
January 30 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940) Died
February 11 – Aubrey O’Day, American singer and actress
March 7 – Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, actor and rapper
March 25 – March 25 – Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
March 30 – Anna Nalick, American singer
April 1 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939) Murdered
April 10 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
April 15 – British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
April 22 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer/songwriter (The All-American Rejects)
April 26 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904) Died
April 27 – Patrick Stump, American singer (Fall Out Boy)
May 4 – Little Boots, English pop singer
May 16 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949) Died
May 20 – Naturi Naughton, American singer and actress
June 15 – Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902) Died
June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer
June 23 – Duffy, Welsh singer
June 30 – Fantasia Barrino, American singer
July 4 – Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949) Died
July 6 – Lauren Harris, English singer
July 6 – D. Woods, American R&B singer, dancer, and actress
July 14 – Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941) Died
July 19 – Harry Stockwell, American actor and singer (b. 1902) Died
July 24 – Armando Morales Barillas, Nicaraguan guitarist (b. 1936) Died
July 25 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926) Died
July 29 – Fred Waring, American bandleader (b. 1900) Died
August 3 – Carah Faye Charnow, American singer for the band Shiny Toy Guns
August 13 – James Morrison, English singer/songwriter and guitarist
August 21 – Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress
September 3 – Arthur Schwartz, American composer (b. 1900) Died
September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914) Died
September 12 – September, Swedish singer and songwriter
September 16 – Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948) Died
September 26 – Keisha Buchanan, British singer (Sugababes)
September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
September 28 – Melody Thornton, American singer (Pussycat Dolls)
October 3 – Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
October 6 – Joanna Pacitti, American singer
October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899) Died
October 25 – Katy Perry, American singer and actress
October 27 – Kelly Osbourne, English singer
November 16 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906) Died
November 16 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918) Died
November 24 – Trey Songz, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor
December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904) Died
December 16 – Laura More (Muncey), British singer
December 22 – Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
December 23 – Alison Sudol, American singer/songwriter and pianist known professionally as A Fine Frenzy
December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900) Died
Summer 1984 – Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the Crack Epidemic.

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Feature Year: 1997 9pm ET

This edition of Feature Year looks at the hits and tunes of 1997.

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January 1 – Townes Van Zandt, American folk singer (b. 1944) Died
January 5 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912) Died
January 23 – Richard Berry African-American singer and composer (b. 1935) Died
January 31 – Johnny Klein, American drummer (b. 1918) Died
February 13 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, gaining 60.81 to 7,022.44.
February 23 – Tony Williams, American musician (b. 1945) Died
February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparked debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.
March 9 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972) Died
March 10 – La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929) Died
March 17 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957) Died
April 8 – Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947) Died
April 19 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (b. 1958) Died
April 21 – A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
April 27 – Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that lasts until July and ends with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
June 6 – In Lacey Township, New Jersey, high school senior Melissa Drexler kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
June 13 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
June 21 – Rebecca Black, American singer
June 28 – Mrs. Miller, American singer (b. 1907) Died
July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace’s Miami, Florida residence.
July 16 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88. It is the Dow’s first close above 8,000. The Dow has doubled its value in 30 months.
July 17 – The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
August 10 – Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (b. 1912) Died
August 16 – Greyson Chance, American singer, songwriter and pianist
August 21 – Be Here Now, the third album from English rock band Oasis, becomes the fastest selling album in UK history.
August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 3:00 am.
September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
September 18 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues singer (b. 1920) Died
September 19 – Rich Mullins, American musician (b. 1955) Died
October 5 – Arthur Tracy, American singer (b. 1899) Died
October 12 – John Denver, American musician (b. 1943) Died
October 19 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947) Died
November 1 – Alex Wolff, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
November 12 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the World Trade Center 1993 bombings.
November 15 – Saul Chaplin, American composer (b. 1912)
November 22 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician, INXS (b. 1960) Died
December 2 – Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (b. 1953) Died
December 19 – James Cameron’s Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time until his other film Avatar, premieres in the US.
December 21 – Amie Comeaux, American country singer (b. 1976) Died

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Feature Year: 1996 – 6pm ET

This edition of Feature Year – 1996.
January 15 – Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922) Died
January 20 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927) Died
January 25 – Jonathan Larson, American composer and playwright (b. 1960) Died
February 9 – The element Copernicium is discovered.
February 16 – Brownie McGhee, American musician (b. 1915) Died
February 21 – Morton Gould, American musician and composer (b. 1913) Died
February 28 – Canadian singer Alanis Morissette wins the top honor, Album of the Year award, at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards. She is the youngest person to ever win this award, a record she held until 2010.
March 15 – Olga Rudge, American violinist (b. 1895) Died
March 31 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (b. 1958) Died
April 4 – Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b. 1912) Died
May 17 – Kevin Gilbert, American musician, composer, and record producer (b. 1966) Died
May 21 – Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957) Died
May 24 – Jacob Druckman, American composer (b. 1928) Died
May 25 – Brad Nowell, American musician (b. 1968) Died
June 13 – An 81-day standoff between the Montana Freemen and FBI agents ends with their surrender in Montana.
June 15 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (b. 1917) Died
June 23 – The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.
July 2 – Lyle and Erik Menendez are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
July 12 – Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (b. 1961) Died
July 16 – John Panozzo, American drummer (b. 1948) Died
July 27 – The Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics kills 1 and injures 111.
July 29 – Jason Thirsk, American bass player (b. 1967) Died
August 6 – The American punk rock band The Ramones play their last show.
August 11 – The British rock band Oasis plays the biggest free-standing concert in UK history at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
August 13 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (b. 1926) Died
August 20 – Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer (b. 1950) Died
August 23 – Osama bin Laden writes “The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places,” a call for the removal of American military forces from Saudi Arabia.
September 9 – Bill Monroe, American “father of bluegrass” music (b. 1911) Died
September 13 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor also known as “2Pac” (b. 1971) Died
September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918) Died
November 5 – Eddie Harris, American Jazz musician (b. 1934) Died
November 30 – Tiny Tim, American musician (b. 1932) Died
December 10 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932) Died
December 20 – Steve Jobs’ company NeXT is bought by Apple Computer, the company co-founded by Jobs.

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Feature Year: 2004 6pm ET

On this edition we spotlight 2004.  You’ll notice that there are no listings of births this year.  There were no celebrity births in music yet to spotlight . . .   

March 5 – Priscilla Paris, American singer (b. 1953) Died
March 7 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941) Died
April 29 – The last Oldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line.
May 6 – The series finale of Friends airs on NBC.
May 24 – North Korea bans mobile phones
June 5 – Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911) Died
June 10 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930) Died
July 6 – Syreeta Wright,American singer,songwriter (b.1946) Died
July 9 – Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917) Died
July 21 – Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929) Died
August 6 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948) Died
August 12 – New Jersey Governor James McGreevey announces that he is “a gay American” and will resign effective November 15, 2004.
August 13 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912) Died
August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922) Died
August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957) Died
September 15 – Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 1948) Died
September 24 – Major League Baseball announces that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington D.C. in 2005.
October 5 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921) Died
October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952) Died
November 1 – Mac Dre, American rapper (b. 1970) Died
November 7 – Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b. 1919) Died
November 13 – Ol’ Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968) Died
December 7 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914) Died
December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (b. 1966) Died
December 26 – One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
December 27 – Hank Garland, American guitarist (b. 1930) Died
December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician (b. 1910) Died