Happy 80! Let’s Stay Together With AL GREEN

13 April 2026

Imperishable soul icon AL GREEN was born Albert Leornes Greene
on April 13, 1946 in Forrest City, Arkansas, US. Happy 80!

Green has recorded/released 29 studio albums, with
Laying Down, which came out in 2008, as his most
recent one.

He scored huge hits with a series of classic singles, mostly in the 70s, such
as ‘Take Me to the River’, ‘Tired of Being Alone’, ‘I’m Still in Love with You’, ‘Love
and Happiness’
, and of course Let’s Stay Together (more than 750 million
streams on Spotify) that went #1 in the US and #7 in the UK in 1971.

Bio – Discography – Instagram

No 1 Hits This Day In 1967 – 1969 – 1977

Top singles from the past…

26 March 2021

Band: THE TURTLES (Los Angeles, CA)
Active: 1965–1970, 1983–present

Single: HAPPY TOGETHER
Score: #1 in the US on 26 March 1967 – 54 years ago today

THE TURTLES: Discography

Artist: MARVIN GAYE (Washington DC)
Born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. on April 2, 1939
Passed away on April 1, 1984 (shot by his father)

Single: I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
Score: #1 in the UK on 26 March 1969 – 52 years ago today

MARVIN GAYE: Discography

Band: DURAN DURAN (Birmingham, UK)
Active: 1978–present

Single: IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW?
Score: Their first No 1 in the UK – 26 March 1977 – 44 years ago today

DURAN DURAN: Discography