The performance of "Running up that Hill" on Top of the Pops was one of Kate Bush's rare appearances on British TV at the time. The song rose straight to the Top 3 in the UK charts thanks to this performance.
“Summer Nights” - Van Halen
One of the first songs written for 5150: Eddie Van Halen played Sammy that iconic guitar riff, and Hagar started singing the opening lines almost immediately.
Here’s to summer ☀️
Three Dog Night – An Old Fashioned Love Song (1972).
Written by the great Paul Williams and a Top 5 hit in 1971, this live BBC performance captures
Three Dog Night at the height of their powers, with Chuck Negron's lead vocal and those trademark harmonies shining through.
In the Summertime is the debut single by Mungo Jerry, released in May 1970.
The band recorded the track very quickly in the studio, without traditional drums: the iconic rhythm of "chh chh chh" comes from the washboard played by Paul King.
The band's name came from a poem by T. S. Eliot ("Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer"). Released as a single, it became a global phenomenon: #1 on the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks in a row, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 in several countries and sold millions of copies.
Straight Outta Compton is the opening track and title of N. W.A. debut album (released in 1989), the album that practically invented gangsta rap as a mainstream genre. Dr. Dre produced the beat in a few hours using the classic break of James Brown's "Funky Drummer," a simple synthesizer and scratches from DJ Yella all recorded in the tiny Audio Achievements Studio.
The album sold over 2 million copies in the US alone with almost no mainstream radio playing (because of censorship), in 2015, inspired the biopic Straight Outta Compton.