This Week in 80’s History!

It’s time to take a look back at this week in the 80’s!

It was this week in:

1980 – The Game by Queen was released. It would hit #1 on the US Billboard 200 Charts much thanks to hits like “Pretty Little Thing Called Love” and “Another on Bites the Dust”

1980 – Airplane Premiered in Theaters starring the late Leslie Nielson

1981 – 4 by Foreigner was released! the album would go onto hit #1 on the US Billboard 200 Charts

1986 – Big Trouble in Little China, starring Kurt Russell premiered in Theaters

Metallica to release live covers EP!

Metallica is releasing a live, acoustic covers EP recorded in LA in 2014 that is now finally seeing the light of day. Covers include Ozzy’s Diary of a Madman, Rare Earth’s I Just Want to Celebrate, The Beatles’ In My Life and Deep Purple’s When a Blind Man Cries.

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