"My Happiness" is a song by Australian rock band Powderfinger (pictured), released by Universal Music Australia on 21 August 2000 as the first single from the band's fourth album, Odyssey Number Five. Frontman Bernard Fanning, inspired by a love of gospel and soul music, wrote the lyrics for "My Happiness" as a reflection on the loneliness the band felt while touring. The rest of the band are co-credited with Fanning for composing the track. Powderfinger's most successful single, it peaked at number four on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, was instantly successful in New Zealand, and was the first Powderfinger song to appear on the American Hot Modern Rock Tracks. It won an ARIA and an APRA Award, topped the Triple J Hottest 100 poll in 2000, and placed 27th in the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time poll. Along with the single "My Kind of Scene", "My Happiness" was highly praised by critics; even negative reviews of Odyssey Number Five noted it as a highlight, especially for its catchy chorus.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Happiness_(Powderfinger_song)
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1140:
Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeated an army led by Jin dynasty general Wanyan Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yancheng
1858:
The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, candidates for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, was held in Ottawa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates
1911:
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by a museum employee and was not recovered until two years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal Campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Tenaru
2007:
Hurricane Dean made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula as a Category 5 storm, causing 45 deaths and US$1.5 billion in damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dean
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
occultation: 1. (astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object. 2. The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”). 3. (Shia Islam) The disappearance of the messianic figure, or Mahdi, who will one day return to the world. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/occultation
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I'm only falling apart And there's nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart Once upon a time there was light in my life But now there's only love in the dark Nothing I can say A total eclipse of the heart. --Jim Steinman https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman