Love It to Death is the third studio album by the American rock band
Alice Cooper (pictured), released in March 1971. The band took the name
Alice Cooper in 1968 and became known for its outrageous theatrical live
shows, but its first two albums failed to find an audience. In 1970 the
band's single "I'm Eighteen" achieved top-forty success, peaking at No.
21 in the US and No. 7 in Canada. This convinced Warner Bros. that
Alice Cooper had the commercial potential to release an album. Love It
to Death reached No. 35 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and has
since been certified platinum. In addition to "I'm Eighteen", a second
track from the album, "Caught in a Dream", was released as a single and
charted at No. 94 in the US. The album is seen as a foundational
influence on hard rock, punk, and heavy metal. Several tracks have
become live Alice Cooper standards and are frequently covered by other
bands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_It_to_Death>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1852:
The Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England
to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, was founded in
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Ormond_Street_Hospital>
1914:
The animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was released, later
greatly influencing future animators such as the Fleischer brothers and
Walt Disney.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur>
1990:
NASA's Voyager 1 space probe took the iconic Pale Blue Dot
photograph of Earth at a record distance of 40.5 au (6.06 billion km;
3.76 billion mi).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot>
2011:
Arab Spring: A "Day of Rage" marked the beginning of the
Bahraini uprising.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahraini_uprising_of_2011>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
love interest:
1. Especially of a character in film or literature: one who is of
interest as a (potential) partner in love.
2. A romantic relationship; a romance.
3. (film, literature, specifically) A romantic plot or subplot in a film
or book.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/love_interest>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is
mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
--As You Like It
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It>
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