"I'm Goin' Down" is a rock song written and performed by American
singer
Bruce Springsteen (pictured). The song was recorded with the E Street
Band on May 12–13, 1982, and was released on August 27, 1985, by
Columbia Records as the sixth single from his 1984 album Born in the
U.S.A. Although Springsteen had changing ideas about the songs to put on
the album, "I'm Goin' Down" was ultimately selected for inclusion. The
recording is based on an energetic band performance that gives
prominence to a heavy drum sound. The lyrics focus on sexual frustration
in a deteriorating relationship. The single reached number 9 in the
United States and the top 30 in Sweden, Canada, and Italy. On the
album's release, the song was praised by critics for the band's
musicianship and Springsteen's vocals and lyrics. Later it received
favorable rankings in retrospectives of Springsteen's career, among
which was an NME list calling it his fourth-best song.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Goin%27_Down>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1861:
The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovered the Great
Comet of 1861, through the tail of which the Earth passed later that
year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1861_J1>
1913:
The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed
Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky>
1972:
The Troubles: A car bomb planted by Ulster loyalists exploded
outside a crowded pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, beginning two days
of gun battles between the British Army, the Provisional Irish
Republican Army, and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_at_Springmartin>
1992:
Li Hongzhi introduced the Falun Gong movement at a public
lecture in Changchun, China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Hongzhi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
slip-up:
(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slip-up>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our Soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself.
--Julian of Norwich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich>
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