Bill Medley, the surviving half of the Righteous Brothers, still recalls that moment he visited the New York offices of RCA Records in 1988. Medley was escorted into a spacious room with a wall completely lined with platinum album plaques. “My God,” Medley says. “It was Number One all over the world. And they gave me all of those awards. I gave some of them out as Christmas presents.”
The album was the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing, released the previous August. Multi-platinum blockbuster LPs, a rarity in today’s music business,...
The album was the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing, released the previous August. Multi-platinum blockbuster LPs, a rarity in today’s music business,...
- 8/21/2017
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
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