Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory publicity.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory publicity.
German pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist after it emerged that they did not sing any of the vocals on their debut album.