HAPPY EASTER!*

'Good' Friday Pure Pop

Classic pop songs of all time . . . . . . . . . . it's all about a little respect!

*Happy Easter weekend! As we look forward to Sunday the 21st April, the Spring Equinox, let us remember what it is named after. The Goddess Ëostre, an Old English goddess mentioned by the 7th to 8th-century English monk Bede, who wrote that Ēosturmōnaþ (Old English 'Month of Ēostre') was an English month, corresponding to April, which he says "was once called after a goddess of theirs named Ēostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month" Being the 21st April or Spring Equinox the exact mid-point between Mid-Winter and Mid-Summer

Spare a thought too perhaps for those Christians who celebrate Pascha at this time marking today as they do as the anniversary of the flogging, torture and putting to death of their Jesus the Nazarene by the Romans named today as 'Good' Friday but they don't know why.

On this day in music history: April 18, 1988 - “The Innocents”, the third album by Erasure is released. Produced by Stephen Hague, David Jacob and Erasure, it is recorded at Blackwing and Swanyard Studios in London from Late 1987 - Early 1988. After their second album “Circus” and the companion remix album “Two Ring Circus”, keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell return to the studio in the Fall of 1987 to work on their third full length album. The English synth pop duos third release is their breakthrough in the US, and the first of three hugely successful albums for them in their home country. It spins off two singles including “Chains Of Love” (#11 UK, #12 US Pop) and “A Little Respect” (#4 UK, #14 US Pop). The album is remastered and reissued on CD in 2009 as two CD + DVD deluxe edition. The first disc contains the original eleven song album, plus two remix bonus tracks. The second disc features B-sides, single edits and live tracks. The DVD features a full live concert filmed at Birmingham NEC on November 15, 1988. It also includes the original music videos for the albums’ singles, as well as additional live concert and television performances. Out of print on vinyl since 1989, it is remastered and reissued as a 180 gram LP in 2016. “The Innocents” spends two weeks (non-consecutive) at number one on the UK album chart, peaking at number forty nine on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

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