Category: This Day In History

My Aim Is True Turns 45

Elvis Costello’s Debut Album Released July 22, 1977

It was a pivotal year for music. Punk was just beginning to be noticed inElvis Costello My Aim Is True small clubs in Los Angeles, New York, and London.

For the rest of the world, Disco was reigning supreme on the pop charts, and progressive rock acts such as Styx, Boston, Kansas, Pink Floyd, Queen et al held court among the Album Oriented Rock radio stations. Many of these acts had some meteoric crossovers into the pop charts as well.

Silk, skin tight satin ensembles, feathered hair, and an air of androgyny permeated nearly every music act that came out of the mid 70s…and that was just the male groups! Continue reading “My Aim Is True Turns 45”

This Date In History: MP3.com Goes Public in 1999

Music Streaming Service Once Valued In The Billions Before Collapsing

If you access MP3.com now, you’ll find a home page filled with links toMP3 dot com various news articles in glorified clickbait fashion. But once upon a time, it was home to a vast music sharing network worth billions…at least on paper!

Today, we take for granted the idea that we can easily access practically any type of music through the web. With the rise of DSL and Broadband by the turn of the century, it was much easier to stream or download digital media in ways that earlier Internet access, with its 56K maximum speed, couldn’t. Continue reading “This Date In History: MP3.com Goes Public in 1999”