Monday’s Nostalgic News – May 22

• 1976 – “Kiss And Say Goodbye” was #1 on the R&B chart.

• 1977 – Television kicked off their first UK tour at the Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, Blondie were the support act.
• 1980 – U2 kicked off their 23 date ’11 O’Clock Tick Tock’ tour at The Hope & Anchor in London.
• 1982 – Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder made it three weeks at #1 with “Ebony And Ivory”.

• 1989 – Rap group Public Enemy fired one of its members, Professor Griff, after he made anti-Semitic remarks in the Washington Post.
• 1993 – Swedish group Ace Of Base started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All That She Wants’, a No.2 hit in the US.
• 1993 – Janet Jackson spent a second week at the top of the Singles chart with “That’s the Way Love Goes”.
• 1997 – Fleetwood Mac performed the first of two MTV Unplugged specials that would be aired in the summer of 1997.
• 2000 – Steely Dan received the Founders Award for a lifetime of songwriting at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

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