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Summer begins in just 59 day – Plan accordingly. Demand Euphoria!

April 23, 1971 –The Rolling Stones, released their 9th British (and 11th American) studio album, Sticky Fingers on their brand new label, Rolling Stones Records, on this date. The album cover was designed by Andy Warhol. It was a close-up photo of a man wearing tight jeans, and contained a real zipper. (It was rumoredContinue reading “Sticky Fingers is released”

April 23, 1985 –Coca-Cola changed its classic formula and released New Coke on this date. The response was overwhelmingly negative, and the real thing was back on the market in less than three months. If only the public had the same response when they removed the cocaine from the formula! Demand Euphoria!

April 23, 1967 –The USSR launched Soyuz One on this date. The next day, forced to return to earth, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first casualty of space flight when his capsule’s parachute opened improperly. Oops. And so it goes

April 23 –We appear back on track, so once again record stores on six continents are set to celebrate Record Store Day, an annual event honoring independently owned and operated music shops. Click here to see which albums are being released exclusively for Record Store Day. Demand Euphoria!

April 22, 1978 –The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) make their debut on Saturday Night Live, on this date, later becoming the first characters from the show to get their own movie. Steve Martin performs King Tut on the same Saturday Night Live episode, popularizing goofy Egyptian dancing. The song, which portrays theContinue reading “The Blues Brothers appeared for the first time on SNL.”

April 22, 1964 –President Johnson opened the New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York, on this date. The Fair also is remembered as the vehicle Walt Disney utilized to design and perfect the system of “audio-animatronics,” in which a combination of sound and computers control the movement of life-like robots toContinue reading “The opening of the 1964 World’s Fair”

April 22, 1970 – 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Happy Earth Day! Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, rawContinue reading “Together, we must Invest In Our Planet”

The following people were born on this day: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (1926), James Newell Osterberg (1947), Patti Ann LuPone (1949), Anthony Salvatore Iadanza (1951), and Robert Smith (1959) Make of this coincidence what you will Demand Euphoria!

April 21, 1990 –Sinead O’Connor topped the charts with a cover of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2U on this date. The video was the first time most people saw what O’Connor looked like and were surprised that she was bald. She shaved her head when she first started recording because she wanted to make a statementContinue reading “Nothing Compares 2U released”