An estimated 90 million people worldwide watched the 29-year-old tennis star take on 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in one of the most famous matches in sports history.
In 1972, The Temptations recorded a 12-minute version of a song a labelmate had released 4 months earlier; it won 3 Grammys and is still the group’s last No. 1 hit
The Temptations’ 12-minute 1972 hit “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” transformed a labelmate’s song into a three-time Grammy-winning Motown classic.
In 1985, Mark Knopfler wrote an 8-minute song in a New York appliance store, quoting a deliveryman watching MTV; 41 years later it is still the band’s only US No. 1 hit
Mark Knopfler found the inspiration for Dire Straits’ major 1985 rock hit in an unlikely place.