I realize that in 20 years this tattoo will look like a big black blob, but right now it looks pretty cool, amiright?
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Pink Floyd Release Dark Side of The Moon
On This Date In 1973: Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album, The Dark Side Of The Moon in the US. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006.
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Metallica Release Master of Puppets
On This Date, March 3rd in 1986: Metallica released its highly influential third album, Master of Puppets, considered by many in the metal community to be the best metal album of all time. This was the final Metallica album with original bassist Cliff Burton, who was killed when the group’s tour bus over-turned in southern Sweden while touring to promote the album.
Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash!
Legendary Country singer/songwriter Johnny Cash was born on this day, February 26th, in 1932. Cash passed away of respiratory failure on September 12th, 2003, at the age of 71, just four months after the death of his wife June Carter Cash.
Happy Birthday, David Sylvian!
David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt), best known by me as lead vocalist for the late great glam-cum-moody-electronica band Japan, was born on this day, February 23, in 1958. Favorite Japan Song: “Television.” Happy Birthday, David!