Songoftheday 04/11/18 - Three years ago when I came to know Mary, first time that someone looked beyond the rumors and the lies and saw the man inside...
from the album Rush Street (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 16
Today's song of the day comes from pop singer/songwriter Richard Marx, who started out the 1990s with his tenth consecutive top-20 pop hit "Keep Coming Back" in the winter of 1991. The second single from his Rush Street album would be his most lyrically ambitious ever - the sad story-song of a romance gone wrong in "Hazard". Like similar-themed classics like "Ode To Billy Joe" from Bobbie Gentry and "Where The Wild Roses Grow" from Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue, "Hazard" explores yet another homicide that happens at a river, this time with Richard being the accused but yet insisting on his innocence...
"Hazard" returned Marx to the American pop top 10 in April of 1992. The single also spent a week at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, his third after "Right Here Waiting" and "Keep Coming Back". Internationally, the record topped the singles chart in Australia for three weeks, and reached the top ten in Canada (#3), the UK (#3), Sweden (#6), Norway (#7), and New Zealand (#7).
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Here's Richard touring behind the album with the song...
and again with an acoustic performance for MTV Unplugged...
And again, in concert...
Finally, Richard from his Night Out With Friends show...
Up tomorrow: Dance-pop singer gets Shakespearean.
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