ABBA won the Eurovision song contest, held at the Brighton Dome, Brighton, England, with Waterloo on this day 1974. The band’s manager Stig Anderson placed a bet of $40 at 20/1 on the band.
No.1657 06/04/2021 – The PJ Harvey album Stories From The Sea was based around her love of New York City. The LP released in 2000 received critical acclaim and for many people her best work. Your favourite Polly LP? 
Previous Albums Of The Day
 No.1310 06/04/2020
A new artist to me…the UK singer-songwriter Luke De-Sciscio. His 2019 album Good Bye Folk Boy, great name, was recorded sequentially with each track cut on the day it was written. Impressive stuff. Check him out. |
 No.943 06/04/2019
The 3rd Nas album, I Am… is 20 years old today! LA Weekly reviewed the LP as “a tightrope line between order and chaos, gangsterism and enlightenment.” I always struggle with the needless profanity…perhaps I’m getting old! |
 No.578 06/04/2018
The Bayou-born soul act Durand Jones & The Indications debut eponymous release is a blend of deep soul and heavy funk. As many do, Jones started his singing journey at church before joining the legendary Indiana University Soul Revue. Classic soul, classic album! |
 No.213 06/04/2017
Aretha Franklin’s I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You was released March 1967, with producer Jerry Wexler behind the mixing desk at Muscle Shoals. The album has a mix of covers with the highlight an incredible cover of Ray Charles’s Respect, a song that became an anthem for the civil rights movement. |