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INVISIBLE TOUCH - GENESIS - 1986

NEWS

• We were stunned at the sight over Cape Canaveral Florida in early 1986 as the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after take off killing all 7 astronauts on board.

• The Russians launched the Mir space station into orbit

• The world’s worst nuclear disaster took place at Chernobyl.

• We watched as Al Capone’s secret vault was opened only to find a half bottle of moonshine.

• Mike Tyson becomes the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Platoon”, “Top Gun” & “Aliens”.

• T.V.: “The Cosby Show” “Family Ties”, “Cheers”

• Tonight Show host Johnny Carson's good friend occasional guest Tonight Show host, Joan Rivers, started a late night talk show on FOX. He never spoke to her again.

• Peter Gabriel's stop-motion music video for Sledgehammer raised the bar for video production

• Aerosmith and Run DMC mixed rock and hip hop with Walk This Way.

• Microsoft introduces “Windows”

• 1986 was the International Year of Peace.

• “Hands Across America” was an idea to bring attention to famine in Africa & homelessness here in the U.S.  Over six million people participated and at 3:00 EST, radio stations across America played the song Hands Across America.

 

DEAD

• Donna Reed

• Desi Arnaz

• Cary Grant

 

#1@1

• This is the title track of the “Invisible Touch” album the 13th studio by Genesis.

• It by far the most commercially successful album of their career, eventually selling over 15 million copies worldwide.

• This is their only number one song.

• "Invisible Touch" came about during a jam for the second part of "Domino," which happens to be the “B”side of the single. Mike Rutherford played a riff while Collins improvised the line "She seems to have an invisible touch."

• Here’s Genesis with “Invisible Touch” your #1 @ 1 from July 1986.



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