Gold & Platinum-1964-1995

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:29 am

George Michaels

3----Gold and Platinum

3----Album Awards

Faith spent 12 weeks at No.1 in 1987/88

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:38 pm

Steve Winwood

5-----Gold and Platinum

4----Album Awards

Winwood sang for Spencer Davis Group--Traffic--Blind Faith

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 2:59 pm

INXS

6----Gold and Platinum

3---Album Awards

This band started out as a family band made up of the Farriss Brothers.
INXS became the biggest Australian group since the Bee Gees.Their record Kick went quadruple-Platinum

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:50 am

U2

11----Gold and Platinum

11----Album Awards

The Joshua Tree was 10-times Gold-Platinum

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:35 pm

Simple Minds

1----Gold and Platinum

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:32 am

Grateful Dead

12----Gold and Platinum

4----Album Awards

This group released its first album in 1967 but didn't reach multi-Platinum until 20 years later

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:17 pm

Bruce Hornsby and The Range

3-----Gold and Platinum

2-----Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:27 am

Van Halen

12------Gold and Platinum

12-----Album Awards

David Lee Roth was replaced by Sammy Hager

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:27 pm

Bryan Adams

6----Gold and Platinum

5----Album Awards

Bryan Adams is the son of a Canadian diplomat and has a military school education

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:50 pm

Def Leppard

8----Gold and Platinum

7----Album Awards

The band that did more than any other to define the intersection where pop meets heavy metal,Def Leppard play rock that is boistering,blustering,a touch bluesy.

Their Album Hysteria earned RIAA certification for 11 million copies sold.The album spent 133 weeks on the Billboard chart,six at #1.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:00 pm

Bon Jovi

7----Gold and Platinum

7----Album Awards

"Slippery When Wet" is RIAA certified 12 times Platinum.It was No. 1 for eight weeks.This album had three Top 10 hits.

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:33 pm

Huey Lewis and The News

5----Gold and Platinum

3----Album awards

First No. one song was The Power of Love--1985
This song was chosen for the soundtrack to Michael J. Fox's megagrossing " Back To the Future"

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:18 pm

Genesis

12----Gold and Platinum

6-----Album Awards

Peter Gabriel,Steve Hackett,Phil Collins,Mike Rutherford,and Tony Banks

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:30 pm

Eurythmics

5----Gold and Platinum

2----Album Awards

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart were in a group called the Tourists

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:19 am

Michael Jackson

6----Gold and Platinum

5----Album Awards

Dirty Diana is not about Diana Ross ,as some think, it is about an overbearing groupie,harking back to "Billie Jean" from 1982s Triller.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:27 pm

Janet Jackson

4----Gold and Platinum

4----Album Awards

Janet is the youngest of the Jacksons.
"Control" went five times platinum

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:18 pm

Fine Young Cannibals

1----Gold and Platinum

1----Album Awards

Andy Cox and David Steele left the "English Beat" to form "Fine Young Cannibals" named after the 1960 British movie "All the Fine Young Cannibals"

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:36 pm

Rod Stewart

19----Gold and Platinum

12----Album Awards

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:49 am

Madonna

12----Gold and Platinum

12----Album Awards

When Madonna put out the video where there was a black saint figure in a church with blazing crosses (Like a Prayer) it cost her a multimillion dollar contract with pepsi.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:34 pm

The B-52's

5----Gold and Platinum

2----Album Awards