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Jul 15, 2025

Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: July 15, 1982 – America Releases View from the Ground.

On this day July 15, 1982, America released their tenth studio album View from the Ground, marking a major resurgence for the band after several years of declining chart performance. The album reached number 41 on the Billboard 200 and brought the band back into the spotlight with one of their biggest hits of the decade.

The single You Can Do Magic, written and produced by Russ Ballard, became the...

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