ABRACADABRA - STEVE MILLER - 1982

ABRACADABRA – Steve Miller Band

#1 September 4, 1982

NEWS

•  Poisoned Tylenol scare occurred when seven people died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned.
•  Falkland Islands war between Great Britain & Argentina started on Friday, 2 April 1982 with the Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands it lasted 74 days.
•  Time magazine named the computer “Man of the Year”. The first object ever to receive the distinction.
•  The 1982 Lebanon War began on June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon. 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

•  MOVIES: Tootsie, Tron, Blade Runner and E.T.
•  T.V.: “Fame”, “T.J. Hooker”, “Cagney & Lacey”, “Late Night with David Letterman”
•  Jane Fonda was an exercise “Guru”
•  Diet Coke was new on the soft drink scene.
•  “Cia-Pets”
•  By the end of the 80’s CD’s would be out selling vinyl records!

AZ HISTORY

• John McCain is elected to the United States House of Representatives.

DEAD

• John Belushi: Died from a speedball, a combination of cocaine and heroin.
• Henry Fonda: The American Film Institute named him the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time.

#1@1

• Abracadabra is the twelfth album by The Steve Miller Band.
• Third Number One.
• This song holds the record for the biggest drop out of the Top 10/Top 40 on the Hot 100. In the fall of 1982, as the song was moving down the chart, "Abracadabra" fell 38 spots from #10 to #48 in one week.
• Certified Platinum in the United States.
• First guitar chords were taught to him by 6-string legend Les Paul.
• The Steve Miller Band with Abracadabra…Your #1 @ 1 from September 1982.