March 1982

13 Four years before his first hit, the rapper MC Hammer releases his non-charting debut album, Feel My Power. 23 Boris Gardiner starts a three-week run at No.1 on the UK Singles Chart with I Wanna Wa

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01 Fleetwood Mac close their Tusk world tour with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Guitarist Lindsay Buckingham tells the crowd: “This is our last show for a long time.” 05 On his Hotter Than July

RIDE ON TIME BLACK BOX (DECONSTRUCTION) Was anyone, in the final months of 1989, really fooled by the full-throated vocals coming out of the mouth of Katrin Quinol when Black Box performed this huge h

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b

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