Dear James,
As you'll know, today is the 40th anniversary of the moon landings, a fact we are reminded of every year here because it's also Friends' Day, the stupidest celebration known to man, where you spend the day phoning and texting your friends to wish them a happy day, and then meet up with them in the evening for pizza. Surely this is what friends do every day? Anyway, here's a pop quiz question for you: who was number one at the time of the moon landings? As you've probably already guessed, it was The Who's roadie (he also wrote this number) and his short-lived beat combo Thunderclap Newman with an aptly named song.
So what was number one in the USA on the same day? Well as coincidence would have it, it was another aptly named song, Exordium and Terminus by Zager and Evans. You'll know it as In The Year 2525. I don't pretend to know it as Exordium and Terminus, I'm just pretending I do.
Zager and Evans have the dubious honour of being the only band to have a number one debut single on both sides of the Atlantic and then never ever chart again.
The meaningful moon-landing title hits continued that summer, with Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising. You'll remember me telling you back in March during the live blog how Creedence are one of the most popular US bands in Argentina, while in the UK we only know them for their contribution to An American Werewolf In London.
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