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There were a total of 105 singles that were in the Top 10 (97 of those peaked in 1973, four had peaked in late 1972, and four would peak in early 1974). Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Carpenters, Paul McCartney and Wings, Jim Croce, War, and Al Green each had three top-ten hits in 1973, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
Tony Orlando and Dawn had two songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the number one song of 1973. Stevie Wonder had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. War had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1973. [1] The Top 100, as revealed in ...
Two versions of the song bookend the album, similarly to "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" from Young's Rust Never Sleeps album, one of which is performed with a predominantly acoustic arrangement, and the other predominantly electric. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Rockin' In the Free World" number 214 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [6]
Jim Croce is the third person to hit number one posthumously after his death in September 1973. Eddie Kendricks and Ringo Starr, despite having hit number one with The Temptations and The Beatles, respectively, earn their first number one songs as solo acts. Stevie Wonder and Jim Croce were the only acts to hit number one with more than one ...
All tracks on this album were mastered using the HDCD process, which Young had been utilizing for his studio work since 1995. The album was also released as a high-resolution DVD Video disc with 24bit 96 kHz audio, and in a two-disc format including the audio album plus a bonus DVD with videos for "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Harvest Moon".
US BB 1 – Feb 1973, Canada 1 – Feb 1973, Australia 1 for 2 weeks Nov 1973, Australia Goset 1 – Mar 1973, Grammy in 1973, Netherlands 3 – Feb 1973, Norway 4 – Aug 1973, France 5 – Apr 1973, UK 6 – Feb 1973, DDD 8 of 1973, Australia 17 of 1973, Austria 19 – Dec 1973, US CashBox 21 of 1973, RYM 25 of 1973, Switzerland 32 – Oct ...
Despite only spending one week at number one, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon was the best-selling album of 1973. Elton John had two number one albums in 1973, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, which spent a cumulative ten weeks at number one.
A live acoustic take of "Rockin' in the Free World" from Jones Beach from June would open the album. "Rockin' in the Free World" became one of Young's signature songs and a live favorite, and bookends the album in acoustic and electric variants, a stylistic choice previously featured on Rust Never Sleeps. Young explains the wide array of music ...