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Proof of walk this morning with Amigo and Cypher to Whitesand and Bulabog Beach ⛱️
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Christmas for some of your favorite GenX stars! 🤣😆
Merry Christmas 🎄 🎁
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On this day in 1986, the Gary Moore single “Over the Hills and Far Away” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #37 (December 20)
The stirring song from the brilliant Irish guitarist’s sixth solo album “Wild Frontier” features The Chieftains, who also appear in the video.
Moore performed the song with the legendary Irish band at the TV show celebrating their 25th anniversary in 1988.
The song tells the tale of a man wrongfully accused of armed robbery, who won't reveal his alibi is as it’s the wife of his best friend, with whom he was sleeping.
So he gets sent to prison "over the hills and far away, for ten long years", during which he receives love letters from the woman and "he swears he will return one day", so "back in his arms is where she'll be".
On the charts it went all the way to #1 in Norway and Finland, #6 in Ireland, #7 in Sweden, #20 in the UK, #22 in the Netherlands, #27 in Switzerland, #43 in New Zealand, and #94 in Australia.
Whilst not cracking the Hot 100, “Over the Hills and Far Away” peaked at #24 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart.
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Beach4Art is a family of four that creates beautiful beach art.
Actor Steve McQueen was famously associated with Triumph motorcycles, and while he used several, the iconic photos with Jacqueline Bisset in San Francisco during the filming of Bullitt (1968) feature him on a 1966 Triumph TR6 Trophy 650, often mistaken for a Bonneville, known for its single carburetor and distinctive blue/white paint.
McQueen loved Triumphs for their performance, racing them on dirt tracks and using them in films like The Great Escape, solidifying their legendary status.
Steve McQueen's love affair with Triumph Motorcycles continued, and they were often seen on set together, but never again on screen.
The partnerships between Triumph and the Hollywood greats, Brando, Dean and McQueen, are difficult acts to follow, but the brand continued to put in star performances throughout the following decades, enhancing the roles of cinema's leading men... and ladies.
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Christmas market in Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪
Taste Tallinn: www.tasteatlas.com/tallinn
Photos: @christof_88 @whykats @hpeegel
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This week in 1975, the Linda Ronstadt single “Tracks of My Tears” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #83 (December 20)
“The Tracks of My Tears" is a song written by Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin, which was a multiple award-winning 1965 hit R&B song originally recorded by their group, The Miracles, on Motown's Tamla label.
Linda Ronstadt’s cover version off her studio album “Prisoner in Disguise” peaked at #22 in Canada, #25 in the US, and #42 in the UK.
Ronstadt and Smokey Robinson performed both "The Tracks of My Tears" and "Ooh Baby Baby" on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever special broadcast on May 16, 1983.
It was a much-covered song over the years, with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Bryan Ferry, and Australia’s Shirley Strachan also recording versions of this 60s classic.
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On this day in 1984, the Foreigner LP “Agent Provocateur” debuted on the UK Albums Chart at #47 (December 22)
Foreigner’s fifth studio album contains the band's biggest hit single, the rock ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is", which is their only #1 single on the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, staying at the top spot for three and two weeks, respectively.
The recording of the album was problematic, and took over nine months, starting with Trevor Horn as producer, who backed out of the project after a few months feeling that he and the band were heading in different directions, replaced by Alex Sadkin, who recalled in 1987:
"The Foreigner project a couple years back, on the other hand, just seemed to go on and on. Everyone, including the band, got really pissed off with it.
They're used to it, though, and I wasn't, so it just threw me.
I couldn't believe what was going on!
There was a problem with people not coming in; Mick (Jones), who is the leader, not showing up for hours and hours, and so that obviously would really slow it down.
Then the songs wouldn't be really ready.
While the album was being mixed the lyrics were still being written! Things were being changed right up to the last minute, and that is what took a long time.
That is why I don't want to go into the studio when somebody wants to write the stuff there; it just takes too long and it isn't worth it, it doesn't come out right.
You can't write properly in the studio because you're under pressure.
How can you really be creative when you're watching the clock going round burning up the money?"
It worked this time for Foreigner though, because the album was a worldwide success, going all the way to #1 in the UK, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden, #2 in Australia, #3 in Canada, #4 in the US and New Zealand, #5 in Finland, #6 in Japan, #10 in Austria, #12 in the Netherlands, #15 in France, and #20 in Italy.
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