This Day in Music History

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Released: August 15, 1972
A live album by the Band, released in 1972. It was
compiled from recordings made during their series
of shows at the Academy of Music in New York City,
from December 28 through December 31, 1971.

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Released: August 16, 1976
A Europop song by ABBA, and the lead single from
their fourth studio album, Arrival...It became
ABBA's only number one hit in the United States,
and topped the charts in Australia, Canada, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, New Zea-
land, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the
United Kingdom, Germany and Zimbabwe. "Dan-
cing Queen" also reached the top five in many
other countries. It is ranked No. 174 on Rolling
Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time, the only ABBA song on the list.

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Released: August 17, 1987
The ninth studio album by Tom Waits, released 1987
on Island Records. Subtitled "Un Operachi Romantico
in Two Acts", the album contains songs written by
Waits and collaborators (mainly his wife, Kathleen
Brennan) for a play of the same name. The shared
title of the album and the play is an iteration of
"Frank's Wild Years", a song from Waits' 1983 album
Swordfishtrombones...Various versions of "Way
Down in the Hole" were used as the theme music
for the HBO series The Wire, including Waits' ori-
ginal version for the second season. The songs
"Temptation" and "Cold Cold Ground" were used
in Jean-Claude Lauzon's film Léolo (1992). "Cold
Cold Ground" was also used in the series Homicide:
Life on the Street.

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Released: August 18, 1986
Kicking Against the Pricks is the third studio album
released by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds. First released in 1986, the album is
a collection of Cave's interpretations of songs by
other artists. The title is a reference to a biblical
quote from the King James Version of the Christian
Bible, Acts 26, verse 14.

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Released: August 19, 1980
A song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from the
album Back in Black..."You Shook Me All Night Long"
placed at number 10 on VH1's list of "The 100 Great-
est Songs of the 80s". It was also number 1 on VH1's
"Top Ten AC/DC Songs". Guitar World placed "You
Shook Me All Night Long" at number 80 on their "100
Greatest Guitar Solos" list. Robert Christgau regard-
ed it as a "drum-hooked fucksong" and the band's
"only great work of art".

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Released: August 20, 1955
Elvis Presley's version of "Mystery
Train" was first released in 1955, as
the B-side of "I Forgot to Remember
to Forget". In 2003, Rolling Stone
magazine ranked it at number 77
on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs
of All Time.

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Released: August 21, 1990
The Wall – Live in Berlin was a live concert performance
by Roger Waters and numerous guest artists, of the Pink
Floyd studio album The Wall, itself largely written by
Waters during his time with the band. The show was held
in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the
Berlin Wall eight months earlier.

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Released: August 22, 2000
A 2000 box set collection of recordings made by
American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong
with his Hot Five, Hot Seven, and other groups be-
tween 1925 and 1930...A four-disc compilation, the
set has received a "crown" as an author's pick in The
Penguin Guide to Jazz and is also included in the
book's "core collection" recommended for jazz fans.
Allmusic concurs that it is "beyond indispensable",
suggesting that "you can't have a Louis Armstrong
collection without this historic set" or "any kind of
respectable jazz collection"

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Released: October 6, 1969
A song by the English rock band the Beatles, written
primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–
McCartney. The song is the opening track on their
1969 album Abbey Road and was also released as a
single coupled with "Something". The song reached
the top of the charts in the United States and peaked
at No. 4 in the United Kingdom. Rolling Stone ranked
"Come Together" at #202 on their list of "The 500
Greatest Songs of All Time" and #9 on their list of
the Beatles' 100 Greatest Songs.

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Released: October 7, 1969
The first national single of the Jackson 5. It became the first number-one hit for the
band and the Motown label on 31 January 1970. It was performed on the band's first
television appearances, on October 18, 1969 on Diana Ross's The Hollywood Palace
and on their milestone performance on December 14, 1969 on The Ed Sullivan Show.