Throwing back to the week of August 6, 1983, we find that it was great to be a music fan that summer. In the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 is The Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take,’ which ultimately spent eight weeks atop the chart (and gave the band its only #1 hit on the Hot 100).
I’ve featured that one before, so we move to #2, where the Eurythmics classic ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’ spent one month before overtaking The Police for the #1 spot. I’ve written about that one, too.
Continuing my look at the albums of 1975…
Donna Summer’s second studio album, Love to Love You Baby, was her first to receive a U.S. release, as her debut (Lady of the Night) was available only in the Netherlands, of all places. This album reached the top 20 in 10 countries and spawned a #2 hit in the U.S. with an abridged version of its title song.
That title song, one of Summer’s signature tracks, runs just under 17 minutes and takes up the entirety of Side One. The truncated version became a massive worldwide hit.
The final artist inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as a performer was Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco and one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of the 70s and 80s.
Summer was first eligible for the Hall in 2000 but didn’t receive her first nomination until 2008. She was nominated in ’08, ’10, ’11 and ’12 before finally making the cut in 2013. Sadly, she died of lung cancer in 2012 before she made it in.
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