The Jets - The Jets (30th anniversary)

This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of the self-titled debut album from the Jets, the brothers and sisters of the Wolfgramm family. The record hit the US Billboard Album chart in early 1986 and then had a seventy week run with a peak of number 21.

For more from this record, click here.

Beverly Hills Cop II (soundtrack)

Welcome to another edition of Soundtrack Sunday. And today (May 6th) we wish a very special happy sixty-seventh birthday to American rock musician Bob Seger.

After the huge box office success of the first Beverly Hills Cop film in 1984 and its smash hit soundtrack album (click here for my review of that record), Paramount Pictures re-teamed Eddie Murphy with Judge Reinhold and John Ashton for the sequel. Naturally, a soundtrack album was also released; the Beverly Hills II album debuted at number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 200 charts and spent a total of twenty weeks there (slightly more than half the time its predecessor spent on the charts which was forty nine weeks).

The Jets - The Jets

In 1985, the brothers and sisters of the Wolfgramm family (Leroy, Eddie, Eugene, Haini, Rudy, Kathi, Elizabeth and Moana)of Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed an R&B/pop music band called the Jets. The self-titled debut album that year did very well on the charts - reaching number 17 on the US Album chart, number 16 on the US Billboard R&B album charts and number 57 in the UK. The record was certified as Platinum and yielded four singles.