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It may seem hard to believe Fleetwood Mac actually had a top 40 hit in the 1990s. That was after the last top 40 appearances by Men At Work, Cyndi Lauper, and Devo - even though we think of those 3 acts as being later than the Mac was. Perhaps more surprisingly, the Carpenters, John Denver, and Paul Anka also made the top 40 after Devo's only top 40 hit. Maybe even more surprisingly, the Monkees' last top 40 appearance was later than that of DeBarge. Weird but true!
I forgot about "Save Me" for years, because a personal struggle wiped out my memory of its run of popularity. A few idiots around here decided to turn those months into a huge battle - just for fun. I have only very spotty memories of events at the time.
A couple years later, an interesting Mac-related personal anecdote emerged. During my first semester of college, I took a class called introduction to mass media. The professor bore a very strong resemblance to Mick Fleetwood.
This class was a real barrel of laughs. I always sat in the back next to a group of 3 students who constantly goofed off. One day, two of them were making such a hilarious scene that the professor interrupted his lesson to warn them, "I'm gonna have to split you two up in the back if it goes on any more." One other time, I had to suddenly bolt out of this class to throw up, but the stalls in the restroom were being monopolized, so I vomited all over the bathroom floor in front of a urinal.
As students in that class were goofing off and chewing bubble gum, the professor assigned a project we had to present in front of the class. Two of the group that sat next to me did their project together. Their project was a look at censorship of rap lyrics, but I think it was mostly just an excuse to recite explicit lyrics in front of the class.
The entire time, they couldn't hold in their laughter. The professor who looked like Mick Fleetwood also had a hard time keeping from bursting out laughing, but he was really trying. It was sort of like in elementary school when I tried holding in my laughter when a teacher lectured the whole class about someone shitting on the toilet seat. It was also like when I saw the former mayor of Cincinnati at Kroger and he was trying to hold in his laughter after someone farted.
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. But don't stop thinking about yesterday either - especially all the lost hits on this blog and the stories behind them.
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