1984: Tina Turner's comeback album, "Private Dancer" is certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and the single from it, "What's Love Got To Do With It" is certified Gold. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart and the single reached #1 on the US singles chart as well as reaching #5 in the UK and the Top Ten in several other European countries.
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1966: Following the success of their million selling hit, "Time Won't Let Me", The Outsiders enter the Hot 100 again with a song called "Respectable", which would rise to number 15 on the US charts
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1963: Peter, Paul And Mary perform, "Blowin' In The Wind" for civil rights marchers in Washington D.C. who had gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr. speak.
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1971: John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is certified as a million seller in the US. At the time, despite singing that West Virginia was "almost heaven", neither Denver or the song's writers, Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert had ever been the
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1968: Deep Purple's "Hush" is released in the US where it will climb to #4 by mid-September.
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