DO YA THINK I’M SEXY – Rod Stewart
#1 February 10, 1979
NEWS
• Iran seized our embassy taking 49 hostages for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981
• 3-Mile Island became the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history
• Skylab began screaming back to earth as it ran out of orbits. Re-entry occurred July 11th 1979. The Shire of Esperance fined the United States $400 for littering, a fine which remained unpaid for 30 years.
• The U.S. government said yes to bailing out a nearly bankrupt Chrysler to the tune of over a billion dollars.
• Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female Prime Minister.
• Gas prices shot up a record 85%!
• Gold would rise past $400 per ounce.
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: ”Norma Rae” “Alien” ”Apocalypse Now” and “Kramer vs. Kramer”
• T.V.: “Dallas” “Alice” & “Dukes of Hazzard”
• “Asteroids” becomes a bigger video game than “Space Invaders”.
DEAD
• Sid Vicious: (John Simon Ritchie May 10 1957 – February 2 1979) Heroin overdose.
• John Wayne: (Marion Mitchell Morrison May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979) Died of stomach cancer
• Mary Pickford: (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
#1@1
• A judgment in a plagiarism lawsuit ruled that this song had been derived from a composition titled "Taj Mahal". Stewart agreed to donate all his royalties from the song to United Nations Children's Fund.
• The song was criticized by many in the rock press as a betrayal of Stewart's blues-oriented rock roots due to its disco-like arrangement,
• All the while Rod Stewart kept asking the question: “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
• Your Number 1@1 from February 1979.
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