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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

Today (September 16th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of Perfect Strangers, the eleventh studio album from the English rock band Deep Purple. It had been nine years since their last album, and this comeback did extremely well. The Platinum seller went to number 17 on the US Billboard Album chart (with thirty-two weeks total on the chart), number 16 in the Netherlands, number 5 in Austria and the UK, number two in Germany and Norway, and number 1 in Switzerland.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Whitesnake - Slide It In

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of Slide It In, the sixth studio album from the British rock band Whitesnake. It was released in Canada and the UK in January of 1984, where it number 9 on the latter charts. The remixed US debut would come in April, where it would peak at number 40. It also charted at number 46 in New Zealand, number 12 in both Sweden and Switzerland, and number 11 in Norway.