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Music History Events: albums released January 23
• 1967 – THE SUPREMES – ‘The Supremes Sing Holland–Dozier–Holland’
• 1973 – RICK WAKEMAN – ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’
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• 1975 – GLORIA GAYNOR – ‘Never Can Say Goodbye’
• 1976 – DAVID BOWIE – ‘Station to Station’
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• 1981 – ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – ‘Trust’
• 1981 – CAMEL – ‘Nude’
• 1981 – GEN X – ‘Kiss Me Deadly’
• 1984 – JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO – ‘Milk and Honey’
• 1989 – DAVID CROSBY – ‘Oh Yes I Can’
• 1989 – THROWING MUSES – ‘Hunkpapa’
• 1990 – SLAUGHTER – ‘Stick It to Ya’
• 1991 – BOOK OF LOVE – ‘Candy Carol’
• 1995 – THUNDER – ‘Behind Closed Doors’
• 1995 – THE HUMAN LEAGUE – ‘Octopus’
• 1995 – SWANS – ‘The Great Annihilator’
• 1997 – OUR LADY PEACE – ‘Clumsy’ (CAN)
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• 2001 – LABYRINTH – ‘Sons of Thunder’
• 2001 – HALL & OATES – ‘The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates’
• 2002 – THE DOORS – ‘Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal’
• 2002 – GOTTHARD – ‘One Life, One Soul – Best of Ballads’
• 2006 – ARCTIC MONKEYS – ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’
• 2006 – RICHARD ASHCROFT – ‘Keys to the World’
• 2007 – THE SHINS – ‘Wincing the Night Away’
• 2007 – JOHN MELLENCAMP – ‘Freedom’s Road’
• 2007 – SALIVA – ‘Blood Stained Love Story’
• 2007 – DEERHOOF – ‘Friend Opportunity’
• 2008 – AYREON – ‘01011001’ (JAP)
• 2008 – PAUL GILBERT – ‘Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar’ (JAP)
• 2009 – NAPALM DEATH – ‘Time Waits for No Slave’
• 2009 – SEPULTURA – ‘A-Lex’
• 2009 – SIRENIA – ‘The 13th Floor’
• 2009 – DORO – ‘Fear No Evil’
• 2012 – LACUNA COIL – ‘Dark Adrenaline’
• 2015 – NAPALM DEATH – ‘Apex Predator – Easy Meat’ (GER)
• 2015 – U.D.O. – ‘Decadent’
• 2015 – POND – ‘Man It Feels Like Space Again’
• 2019 – BACKSTREET BOYS – ‘DNA’ (JAP)
• 2025 – RENEE GOUST / KHYLIE RIO – ‘CYBER-MASHAKA’
• 2026 – MEGADETH – ‘Megadeth’
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Single 1968: ‘SUZANNE’ (Leonard Cohen)
In January 1968, the single ‘Suzanne’ by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was released, taken from his debut album ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen’ released a month earlier. The song was inspired by a platonic relationship that Cohen had with Suzanne Verdal, a young dancer that the singer met in the mid-60s at the jazz club Le Vieux Moulin in Montreal. A free spirit who was considered the muse of numerous beatniks of the time and was recently separated from a friend of Cohen’s, the sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. At that time, Verdel lived in a house located in an idyllic spot by the Saint Laurent River, where Cohen visited her one afternoon in the summer of 1965.
The two sipped tea with tangerines by candlelight and had long conversations as they strolled along the river through Old Montreal to the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel, also called the Sailor’s chapel, where sailors received the blessing before setting sail. All these memories and impressions served as inspiration for Cohen and ‘Suzanne brings you down’ was first published as a poem in his book ‘Parasites of Heaven’ published in 1966. The first recording of the song in song form was made by Judy Collins that same year on her album ‘In My Life’, before it was included on Leonard Cohen’s album.
LP 1973: ‘THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII’ (Rick Wakeman)
50 years ago today, on January 23, 1973, Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman”s debut solo album “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” was released, a progressive rock instrumental work that revolved around the musician”s interpretation of the musical characteristics of the six wives that the English King Henry VIII (1491-1547) had. He found inspiration for this in a book he bought about the monarch”s private life during his American tour with Yes. In the recording, made at the Morgan and Trident studios in London under production by Wakeman himself, Rick uses more than a dozen keyboard instruments (mini moog, mellotrons, acoustic and electric pianos, organs, harpsichord, synthesizers and sequencers) and several musicians from Yes and Strawbs, the band in which the keyboardist was active before joining Yes in 1971, collaborated. The album received generally favorable reviews and was No. 7 in the UK charts and No. 30 in the American charts.
On May 1, 2009, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII”s ascension to the throne, Wakeman performed the complete work live for the first time at Hampton Court Palace in London.
LP 1978: ‘STATION TO STATION’ (David Bowie)
On January 23, 1976, “Station To Station”, the tenth studio album by British musician David Bowie, one of his most successful and enduring works, was released in the United Kingdom. It was Bowie”s album that reached the highest position in the American charts: No. 3, on which it remained for 32 weeks.
Bowie”s personal life was in chaos in 1976. His marriage to Angie had failed and he was trying to overcome his strong addictions to cocaine and alcohol. Increasingly paranoid, he had become obsessed with UFOs, the occult, Aleister Crowley, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler. The controversy escalated when he addressed a group of fans at London”s Victoria Station with something that looked too much like a Nazi salute…
Musically it marked Bowie”s transition from the soul/funk of “Young Americans” to the “Berlin trilogy” (1977-79), featuring music full of synthesizers and robotic rhythms influenced by the kraut-rock of German electronic music groups Kraftwerk and Neu!. With the help of Carlos Alomar, Earl Slick and Dennis Davies, the drummer who collaborated with him on Young Americans, Bowie began work on something provisionally called the Thin White Duke. His paranoia was evident in the title track and in “TVC 15”, while in “Wild is the wind” David”s voice transforms and sounds tender and vulnerable. One of the singles that was released, “Golden Years”, reached the top 5 in the US and UK and the entire album inspired movements such as English post-punk and the New Romantics.
LP 1981: ‘TRUST’ (Elvis Costello and the Attractions)
On January 23, 1981, “Trust”, Costello”s fifth album and fourth with the Attractions, was released. Nick Lowe repeated the production for the fifth consecutive time. The rise to power in England of the Conservatives and his marital conflicts with his first wife helped the songs of the album reflect disenchantment and cynicism. In an attempt to cross the melodies of “Armed Forces” with the rhythm and energy of “Get Happy!!”, Costello and the band recorded fourteen tracks in chaotic sessions dominated by alcohol and drugs. None of their singles managed to reach the British top 40, something that had not happened since their first album in 1977.