Gold & Platinum-1964-1995

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:01 pm

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

13---Gold and Platinum

8----Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:24 am

John Cougar Mellencamp

11---Gold and Plarinum

10---Album Awards
Name changes--Johnny Cougar---John Mellencamp before changing it to John Cougar Mellencamp in 1983

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:02 pm

Billy Joel

14---Gold and Platinum

14---Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:32 pm

The Go-Go's

2---Gold and Platinum

1---Album Award

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 02, 2006 1:44 pm

The Pretenders

5---Gold and Platinum

2---Album Awards

James Honeyman-Scott the Pretenders drummer died of an overdose in June of 1982.An early group member Pete Famdon also died of an overdose in April of 1983.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:26 pm

George harrison

9---Gold and Platinum
2---Album Awards

All Those Years Ago

This song evolved into Harrison's tribute to the late John Lennon after he was murdered in front of his New York City apartment building in December 1980.

Back ground vocals for this song--Ringo,Paul and Linda McCartney,Denny Laine.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 05, 2006 2:57 pm

Journey

10---Gold and Platinum

9---Album Awards

Journey was formed by ex-members of Santana and the Steve Miller Band
The name for this group came from a radio station in San Francisco ( (KSAN) having a name that band contest.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:50 pm

Duran Duran

9---Gold and Platinum

6---Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 09, 2006 3:09 pm

Wham

3----Gold and Platinum

2----Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:25 pm

Cyndi Lauper

3----Gold and Platinum

2----Album Awards

Cyndi,at one time belonged to the band Blue Angel

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 14, 2006 8:29 pm

Blondie

Gold and Platinum---------7

Album Awards-------------6

Blondie's Rapture wasone of the earliest links between Alternative rock and rap

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:15 pm

John Lennon

9----Gold and Platinum

3----Album Awards

When John put out Double Fantasy it had been his first Album in five years

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:43 am

Tina Turner

5---Gold and Patinum

4---Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:50 pm

REO Speedwagon

11----Gold and Platinum

----8 Album Awards

This name came from a 1911 fire truck

The Instructor · Post by **The Instructor** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:49 pm

I like anything by Dolly Parton.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:49 am

ZZ Top

11----Gold and Platinum

7-----Album Awards

The highest-charting of the singles released from ZZ Top's 10 million-selling Eliminator," Legs"

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 23, 2006 9:01 pm

Michael Jackson

6---Gold and Platinum

5---Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:34 am

Phil Collins

8----Gold and Platinum

6----Album Awards

In The Air Tonight on the album Face Value,was in part inspired by the Genesis singer's painful 1979 divorce.Collins says he wrote the album's songs as "messages,"hoping his wife would understand them and come back to him.

Collins most successful album,however remains 1985s seven-million plus selling No Jacket Required

Post by **noreply66** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:00 pm

Dire Straits

7----Gold and Plutinum

4----Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:46 pm

Sting

6----Gold and Platinum

6----Album AWards

Sting was a member of the Police