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August 2021

Classic Albums Top To Bottom – BOSTON (BOSTON)

August 25, 2021 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

45 years ago today Boston released their self-titled debut album. Tonight at 9:00, we’re playing this classic album in its entirety… Boston - BOSTON TOP TO BOTTOM! Hear it the way it was meant to be heard, tonight at 9:00!

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January 2022

Birthday – STEVE PERRY (73)

January 22, 2022

Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. Perry also had a successful solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018. Perry has been dubbed "The Voice", a moniker originally coined by Jon Bon…

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February 2022

Album – RUMOURS (FLEETWOOD MAC) turns 45

February 4, 2022

 Fleetwood Mac – Rumours    (released February 4, 1977) Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the release of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” album You’ll hear the full album, song by song, start to finish.……Tonight @ 9:00

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Birthday – DISCO (52)

February 14, 2022

Rarely does a dance movement fit so precisely within a decade. Seventies Disco was born on Valentine's Day 1970, when David Manusco opened The Loft in New York City, and it rapidly faded in 1980. When the Disco movement peaked in 1978-79, the demographic was predominantly white, heterosexual, urban and suburban middle class. But it didn't begin that way. For the first eight years, Disco was an underground movement. Then the film Saturday Night Fever (December 1977) helped turn the…

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March 2022

Album – ELIMINATOR – ZZ TOP (39)

March 23, 2022

Eliminator is the eighth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Records, and rose high on the charts in many countries. Four hit singles were released—"Gimme All Your Lovin'" which reached the American Top 40, "Sharp Dressed Man", "TV Dinners" and their most successful single, "Legs". A Diamond certified album in the United States, Eliminator is ZZ Top's most commercially successful release, with sales of 20 million worldwide. The…

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Birthday – ERIC CLAPTON (77)

March 30, 2022

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, born 30 March 1945 Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. He is the ONLY three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric…

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July 2022

Anniversary – LIVE AID

July 13, 2022

Live Aid was a benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, attended by about 72,000 people, and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US, attended by exactly 89,484 people.  

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TIM HORTON’S CAMP DAY

July 13, 2022

Today is Tim Hortons Camp Day!! Purchase a Camp Day bracelet for $2 in one of four vibrant colours, or Camp Day socks for $5. Buy a hot or iced coffee from your neighbourhood Tim Hortons and help send a local kid to camp. Round Up your order in a restaurant or on the app, tap to give ™ or drop change into the coin box. More info HERE  

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August 2022

Classic Albums Top To Bottom – HYSTERIA (DEF LEPPARD)

August 3, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

‘Classic Albums - Top To Bottom’ Def Leppard -Hysteria Released August 3, 1987 Tonight at 7:00 you’ll hear the full album, song by song, start to finish…. Brought to you by Maritime Vehicle Provider, on 89 9 The Wave

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October 2022

Birthday – JOHN “COUGAR” MELLENCAMP (71)

October 7, 2022

Born: October 7, 1951 in Seymour, Indiana He has released 23 studios albums and 65 singles Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 (inducted by Billy Joel) Won a Grammy Award for ‘Hurts So Good’

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