DJ Fred’s Rock N’ Roll Factoids For November 18th [VIDEOS]

It was on this date in 1970 that Led Zeppelin III was the #1 album in the land.

The biggest song on the album was the Immigrant Song.  The cover was very unique too.  It resembled an old-fashioned garden seen chart with a laminated card disc that rotated. It was covered with mages, including photos of the band members, which showed through holes in the cover.  Kind of like a rock n' roll glory hole.

In 1972 on this date Cat Stevens' sixth album hit #1.  Catch Bull At Four featured the song Can't Keep It In.  Insert sexual joke here:

On this night in 1975 Bruce Springsteen made his first live debut in England when he appeared in London.  Londoners everywhere said, "Where the hell is bloody Jersey?"

This day in 1978 the Billy Joel album 52nd Street hit #1on the album chart.  It would go on to win the Album Of The Year at the Grammy Awards in 1979.  It was also the first commercial Compact Disc to be sold.  You remember CDs; They used to stop in the middle of the song when the player changed tracks.

In 1992 Black Sabbath was honored with a star on the Rock Walk in Hollywood, California.  Ozzy Osbourne got down on his knees and put both hands into the concrete to make prints that would last for....well, longer than Ozzy will.

In 2003 on this day the cops raided Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch when sexual allegations involving a 12 year-old boy surfaced.  Jackson's greatest hits album was also released that day, and with the cops showing up the party was ruined.

Kim Wilde, who became famous when her video Kids In America was played during the early days of MTV was born on this day in 1960.  It's still a great song.