On This Day In METAL History – June 17th… From LITA FORD To HIGH ON FIRE

On June 17th, 1989 – Heavy Metal ambassadors Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne had their hit power ballad, Close My Eyes Forever, ranked at #8, on the (U.S.) Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. Zowie!

On June 17th, 1991 – Van Halen released their ninth studio album, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, via Warner Bros. records. This album went on to debut at #1 on the (U.S.) Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart. The huge hit single, Right Now, is featured on this record too. If you take the first letter of each word of this album’s title, what does it spell? Three million (plus) copies of this album have been sold in the United States. Jiminy Cricket, that’s a lot of albums!

On June 17th, 1994 – Yes, even the great Jack Nicholson portrayed a wolfman in a major motion picture known as Wolf. This film hit wide-screen theaters, on this day 21 years ago, via Columbia Pictures. As I see it, any dude that can transform into a wolfman is Metal. Wolf also stars the very talented Michelle Pfeiffer. This romantic Horror/Thriller film was directed by Mike Nichols.

On June 17th, 2015 – The newly released studio album, Luminiferous, from High On Fire, is ranked at #1 on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Yowza!

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LONG LIVE METAL.

LONG LIVE THE ROOTS & FAMILY TREE OF METAL.

Stone.

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4 Responses to “On This Day In METAL History – June 17th… From LITA FORD To HIGH ON FIRE”

mikeladano Says:
June 17, 2015 at 10:50 am

Jiminy cricket!

Love your humour man, keep it up!

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- Metal Odyssey Says:
  June 17, 2015 at 5:21 pm
  
  Thanks, Mike! I am trying to make stuff more interesting… and my comedic inspiration is very old school. LOL!
  
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  - mikeladano Says:
    June 17, 2015 at 5:22 pm
    
    I love it. I like humour in my readin’ so you hit the spot!
    
    That Lita Ford single…I have the song on a greatest hits album, but I don’t know if it’s a remix like on that single. Must investigate.
    
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    - Metal Odyssey Says:
      June 17, 2015 at 5:25 pm
      
      Thanks again, Mike! Yeah, I was googling for a 45rpm cover sleeve of Lita and Ozzy’s song… all I could find was the ‘remix’ version. I don’t believe I ever heard a remix version? Unless the record label meant: radio edit/version? \m/
      
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