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After following up their debut album with mixed results, it was time for U2 to go back to what worked. They'd emerge with their third album and break through with "War" on this date, February 28, 1983. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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It would be Janis Joplin's greatest success, but she wasn't alive to see it when her second album "Pearl" reached number one on this date, February 27, 1971, and stayed there for nine weeks. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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After the success of the live album “No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded," the duo would hit the road as Page & Plant, performing Led Zeppelin hits, but in a far different way, on this date, February 26, 1995. Allan looks back in today’s Classic Rock Calendar…
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Many thought he was an overnight sensation when Bob Seger finally broke through in the late '70s, but his greatest success was to come when he released his eleventh album "Against the Wind" on this date, February 25, 1980. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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How do you follow up your greatest success? For Journey, you release an album just like the one before it, as they did on this date, February 22, 1983, with "Frontiers." Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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After not performing together for seven years, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band reunited - temporarily - to film a music video on this date, February 21, 1995. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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Everyone has to get their start somewhere. Before becoming the greatest guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix was hired - and fired - at his first gig 60 years ago today on February 20, 1959. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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30 days after biting a head off a bat on stage, Ozzy Osbourne would create another infamous incident when he visited the Alamo. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar...
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Nothing lasts forever. Not even for the world's first - and most successful - supergroup. Cream released their appropriately titled final album "Goodbye" 50 years ago today, February 15, 1969. Allan looks back in today's Classic Rock Calendar…
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Saturday night he'll be making his first appearance at Vinnie Brand's Stress Factory in Bridgeport! Ted Alexandro stopped by First Thing Fairfield County to talk about the show, starting out as an elementary school teacher, and performing comedy in over two dozen different countries.
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