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Today (October 19th) is the thirtieth anniversary of Steeltown, the second studio album from Big Country. Around the globe, it went to number 53 in Canada and Germany, number 33 in the Netherlands, number 28 in Sweden, number 15 in New Zealand, number 12 in Norway, and number 1 in the UK. Here in the US, it spent seventeen weeks on the Billboard Album chart, peaking at number 70.
Tomorrow (July 15th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of The Crossing, the debut album from Scotland’s Big Country. This 1983 record charted at number 18 on the US Billboard Hot 200, number 17 in Sweden, number 11 in the Netherlands, number 8 in New Zealand, number 4 in Canada, and number 3 in the UK.
