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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released His Double Album ‘THE RIVER’ 45 Years Ago

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17 October 2025

The now 76-year-old rock prodigy BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
released his 5th LP THE RIVER on 17 October 1980, today
45 years ago.

#1 in the US and Canada, #2 in the UK

Pitchfork wrote: “Bruce Springsteen’s fifth album gushes forth with the fury
of a burst dam, delivering torrents of despair, inspiration, heartbreak, and joy.
‘The River’ brought Bruce to those heights, giving him his first number one album
and Top 10 single.”

Bruce: “The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way
back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the
band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the
great rock guitarists in the world.”

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THE POLICE Topped The UK Album Charts This Day 45 Years Ago With ‘ZENYATTA MONDATTA’

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15 October 2025

Legendary trio THE POLICE (1977–1984, 1986, 2007–2008) topped released their
3rd LP ZENYATTA MONDATTA this day 45 years ago? ON 15 October 1980.


Rolling Stone said: “A near-perfect pop by a band that bends
all the rules and sometimes makes musical mountains out of
molehill-size ideas.”

Stewart Copeland (drummer) about the album’s title: “It’s not an attempt to be mysterious, just syllables that sound good together, like the sound of a melody that has no words at all has a meaning.

Miles (Stewart Copeland’s brother and group manager) came up with “Trimondo Blondomina”. Very subtle. Geddit? Like three blondes and the world. Then somebody thought of “Caprido Von Renislam”. That rolls off the tongue. It was the address of the studio in the Netherlands.
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Lest We Forget – TUTV’s 20 Best Albums Of 2024 – Today: No. 1

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We’re on our way, slowly but surely, to the end of 2025.
Instead of starting to think about this year’s best LPs,
let’s go back to 2024 and listen to TUTV’s 20 Best Albums
again and look back on what we wrote about each one
of them.

Today: No. 1

Band: THE CURE

Album: SONGS OF A LOST WORLD
The Goth Gods’ 14th LP, their first
in 16 years.

Orchestrator Robert Smith about
their supreme new opus.

TUTV: In the past 16 years Robert Smith lost his mother, father, and brother.
All these painful events led to this extraordinarily touching record. It’s one
long, emotionally layered lament that works liberating in the end.

Strong sentiments of heartache, grief, and sadness are omnipresent, but you
hear and feel frequently that Smith has accepted humankind’s inevitable destiny.
Live and die. Life and death.

Sonically, it feels like if you’re part of a funeral march that progresses in slow
motion. Almost every song starts with a long instrumental intro of waves of
mourning synths and weeping guitars, and every time when Smith‘s feverish
voice joins in, the sense of tristesse augments wondrously heavy-hearted.
5-star masterpiece!

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NEIL DIAMOND Got His First No. 1 Hit Single In The US Today 55 Years Ago With ‘CRACKLIN’ ROSIE’

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12 October 2025

The now 84-year-old songwriting legend NEIL DIAMOND had his first No. 1 hit
in the US with CRACKLIN’ ROSIE. It topped the charts on 12 October 1970, today
55 years ago.

It also was on top of the charts in
New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa.

Billboard called it a “clever rhythm item that has it to hit with
all the potent sales of another ‘Sweet Caroline’ or ‘Holly Holy.”

Oh, I love my Rosie child
You got the way to make me happy.
You and me, we go in style…
Cracklin’ Rose, you’re a store-bought woman
But you make me sing like a guitar hummin’

Formidable live version.

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PAUL WELLER Released His 8th Solo LP ‘AS IS NOW’ Today 20 Years Ago

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11 October 2025

PAUL WELLER who started his career as the main man of mod punks
The Jam (1972-1982), afterward he started The Style Council (1983-1989)
with keyboardist Mick Talbot and he released his first solo LP in 1992.

Today 20 years ago, on 11 October 2025 his 8th album,
named AS IS NOW came out. It peaked at #4 in the UK.

Pitchfork said: “Where on the first listen I found it merely okay, it’s a record that
reveals itself as a work of surprising depth and detail when you give it multiple spins
and start noticing things like the clever trombone counterpoint in the verses of
“Here’s the Good News”.

For a guy with nothing left to prove, Weller sounds determined not to fade away,
and as long as he keeps making records like this every couple of years, there’s no
danger of that happening.”

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TALKING HEADS – Their Brill 4th LP ‘REMAIN IN LIGHT’ Is 45 Today

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8 October 2025

TALKING HEADS released their 4th LP, REMAIN IN LIGHT
on 8 October 1980, today 45 years ago.

The band’s 3rd and last album was produced by Brian Eno.

Byrne struggled with writer’s block, but adopted a scattered,
stream-of-consciousness lyrical style inspired by early rap and
academic literature on Africa.

The album artwork was conceived by the bassist, Tina Weymouth, and
the drummer/husband, Chris Frantz, with the help of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology‘s computers design company.

Remain in Light got widespread acclaim from critics for its sonic experimentation,
rhythmic innovations, and merging of disparate genres into a cohesive whole. The
album reached number 19 on the US Billboard 200 and number 21 in the UK.

Rolling Stone said: “It’s a brave and absorbing attempt to locate a common ground in the era’s divergent and often hostile musical genres. ‘Remain in Light’ yields scary, funny music to which you can dance and think, think and dance, dance and think, ad infinitum.”

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ALANIS MORISSETTE – Canadian Songstress Topped The US Charts This Day 30 Years Ago With ‘JAGGED LITTLE PILL’

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7 October 2025

Canadian singer/songwriter ALANIS MORISSETTE (now 51) topped the US Charts
with her 3rd album JAGGED LITTLE PILL on 7 October 1995, 30 years ago today.
It peaked at #5 in the UK.

The album went on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide and won
five Grammy Awards. It was co-written and produced by Glenn Ballard.

Los Angeles Times said: “She explores extreme emotional games.
She’s a fresh talent, somewhere between, say, Sinéad O’Connor and
Liz Phair, who’s determined to let her feelings out, whether with
a snarl or a smile.”

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LED ZEPPELIN III Came Out 55 Years Ago Today

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5 October 2025

Heavy blues rock titans LED ZEPPELIN (1968–1980) released their
3td LP Led Zeppelin III on 5 October 1970, today 55 years ago.

It topped both the British, American, Australian and Canadian charts.

The album showed a progression from straightforward rock towards folk and
acoustic music. It was one of the most anticipated LPS of 1970, and its shipping
date was held up by the intricate inner sleeve design based around a volvelle,
with numerous images visible through holes in the outer cover.

Although many critics were initially confused over the change in musical style and
gave the album a mixed response, Led Zeppelin III has since been acknowledged as representing an important milestone in the band’s history and a turning point in their
music.

AllMusic: “Led Zeppelin III provided the band with the necessary room to grow musically.
While there are still a handful of metallic rockers, III is built on a folky, acoustic foundation
that gives the music extra depth. the heart of the album lies on the second side, when the
band delve deeply into English folk.”

Jimmy Page: “I play like I play. You hear it on
‘Celebration Day’ It’s pretty good for a one-night
shot.”

Robert Plant: “I don’t want to scream ‘Immigrant Song’
every night for the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I could.”

Sorry, Robert, Immigrant Song is one of my
all-time favorite Led Zep juggernauts.

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‘THE WHO BY NUMBERS’ Released 50 Years Ago Today

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3 October 2025

THE WHO released their 7th LP THE WHO BY NUMBERS
today 50 years ago, on 3 October 1975.

It peaked at #7 in the UK, and #8 in the US.

Pete Townshend has claimed that the band recorded practically every song he had written for The Who by Numbers, partially due to a writer’s block that he was experiencing at the time. The songs on the album were, for the most part, more introspective and personal than many other songs that the band had released. Townshend‘s 30th birthday occurred in May 1975; he was troubled with thoughts of being too old to play rock and roll and that the band was losing its relevance.

“The songs were written with me stoned out of my brain in my living room, crying
my eyes out, detached from my own work and from the whole project. I felt empty.”

Rolling Stone Magazine: “They may have made their greatest
album in the face of their personal problems. But only time will tell.”

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