Nostalgic News For Tuesday, May 23

• 1987 – Swing Out Sister went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut LP ‘It’s Better To Travel’, their only UK No.1 album.
• 1987 – Twelve former members of the Doobie Brothers reunited for a charity concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show raised $350,000 for Vietnam veterans, about two-thousand of whom attended the show for free.
• 1987- Swingout Sister had the #1 U.K. album with It’s Better To Travel.
• 1992 – Iron Maiden went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Fear Of The Dark’ their third No.1 album.
• 1999 – Shanks & Bigfoot with vocals by Sharon Woolf started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Sweet Like Chocolate.
• 1998 – Mariah Carey had the #1 song with “My All”
• 2000 – Eminem released the Marshall Mathers LP on Interscope Records.

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