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The official teaser for the season 5 of Netflix horror/fantasy series Stranger Things has a familiar theme for the soundtrack:

This will be legendary

[Jul 17 update]: The use of Child in Time in a hit TV series soundtrack has certainly made a splash in both rock’n’roll and more mainstream media. We will list some of them, with the content largely repeating each other:

  • Forbes: The First ‘Stranger Things 5’ Trailer Will Give You Chills
  • Variety: What’s That Bombastic Metal Song in the ‘Stranger Things 5’ Trailer?
  • Gold Radio: ‘Child in Time’: Deep Purple’s song on the Stranger Things 5 trailer explained
  • The Economic Times: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 trailer: Will the monster fall to this iconic 1970s metal anthem?
  • SlashFilm: What’s The Song In The Stranger Things Season 5 Trailer?
  • TechRadar: Stranger Things season 5 trailer launch live: all the latest news, analysis, and reaction to the hit Netflix show’s latest teaser
  • Times Now: Stranger Things Season 5 Teaser Uses THIS Iconic Heavy Metal Music, Reminds Of Eddie Munson’s Metallica Act; Shocked Fans REACT
  • Heart Radio: Why Stranger Things 5 trailer song ‘Child In Time’ by Deep Purple is the perfect choice
  • Parade: ‘Stranger Things 5’ Teaser Uses Haunting ’70s Rock Epic to Foreshadow Final Battle
  • Blabbermouth: DEEP PURPLE’s ‘Child In Time’ Featured In Trailer For Fifth And Final Season Of NETFLIX’s ‘Stranger Things’
  • BraveWords: DEEP PURPLE Classic Soundtracks Official Teaser For Season 5 Of “Stranger Things”
  • Classic Rock: “He was being very naughty under the piano with a woman at the same time he was singing”: The epic story of the ‘stolen’ song that could be the next Stranger Things hit
  • Ultimate Classic Rock and Loudwire: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Trailer Features Yet Another Hard Rock Classic
  • Revolver: See ‘STRANGER THINGS’ final season trailer soundtracked by DEEP PURPLE
  • etc, etc.

Thanks to Amit, Tobias, and Volodymyr for the heads-up.



48 Comments to “Curioser and curioser”:

  1. 1
    Ggg says:

    That’s a big news. Kate Bush and Metallica stormed the USA/World charts when their tracks were featured in the episodes of Stranger Things. Now it’s time for Deep Purple — without any exaggeration, the band has a long-awaited chance of re-producing the global hit single and putting their public image and popularity especially back to the USA market, just if the current management captures the momentum and uses the modern social media tools to do so. I hope they will. Deep Purple deserves to return back to the heights where they always belonged to.

    A hint: release the newly edited single Child in Time by the time Stranger Things episode is released, promote it properly and wait what happens.

  2. 2
    RB says:

    Nice!

  3. 3
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Way to go!

  4. 4
    Karin Verndal says:

    Child of Time indeed!

    I would prefer something less horror when it comes to films-series or whatever!
    Why not let Purple deliver the music to a nice romantic musical like ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – where Ian can sing the part of Mr Darcy 😃

  5. 5
    Gary Poronovich says:

    Wow – Child in Time has always been epic but this – this is epic-er!!

  6. 6
    Matthew Burbridge says:

    Well edited bit me thinks that the closing credit of the trailer would have been better with the end of child in time I.e Ritchie’s violining.

  7. 7
    Uwe Hornung says:

    You‘re a Jane Austen fan, Karin, I knew it!

    Admit it, you watch Bridgerton too!!!

    Chick flicks!

    It‘s alright, I like quite a few of them myself.

    https://youtu.be/mTftsRzs4Ko

    Great movie.

  8. 8
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Now I have to watch the complete series after all.

    It’s been recommended to me quite a few times.

    And all these young people will be appearing at DP gigs in droves waiting for the band to do CIT! 🤣

  9. 9
    Russ 775 says:

    In case anyone wants to check it out here’s the correct link for the Slash Film article: https://www.slashfilm.com/1913918/stranger-things-season-5-trailer-song-deep-purple/

  10. 10
    Ggg says:

    Variety reports that Deep Purple (neither Netflix) “didn’t immediately respond to the request for comment”. Oh come on, THE MANAGEMENT should be working on capturing that rare momentum but instead they don’t even respond.

  11. 11
    Karin Verndal says:

    Yes of course I am!
    I’m a woman, hear me roaread 😄

    Well not only Austen! I adore Wuthering Height! That Heathcliff sure needed some talking too! Brontë wasn’t bad either 😊

    Barbra Streisand – uhhh
    Like her in ‘The mirror has two faces” – where she plays opposite the amazing Jeff Bridges, they are both professors at a university, he doesn’t want to be romantically involved, she does! They end up marry, as platonic friends, but this doesn’t soothe any of them ☺️

    Jeff Bridges is a real good actor, even in a leichte Komödie as that movie.

  12. 12
    Mike Nagoda says:

    The only downside to this is the band not being able to perform CIT live when people go to see them – alot of young fans will be disappointed, as someone already said.

    This is such a huge opportunity for Purple – if they don’t jump on this, they’ll likely regret it later!

    If I were Ian Gillan, I’d get to working right away with a vocal coach who specializes in restoring the upper range of aging rock stars who have lost theirs so the band can perform this song again. Alienating a bunch of new fans by not playing CIT and loosing out on a whole new generation of new fans would not be wise, given this opportunity.

  13. 13
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Well, the Purple management has a reputation of not always being quite on top of things. Famously, when asked what they thought about Molly Hatchet touring with a band from the Purple stable, it was either Coletta or Edward’s who helpfully contributed: “We haven‘t heard any of her music, but we hear that she is very popular in the South of the USA.” Quite. 😂

    https://www.jacksonville.com/gcdn/presto/2020/08/03/NFTU/5e012f26-bd87-4b71-84da-5586db55f339-lif_originalmollyhat.jpg

  14. 14
    Max says:

    @13 LOL…never heard that story… yep, good old Molly, she was a lot of fun!

    @12 Mike, I doubt IG gives a fiddler’s fart about all that. And I guess he can’t do CiT anymore, no matter what coach they would bring in. Plus: They sell out halls everywhere on the planet and these days they seem to do it for the fun of being on stage. Pretty sure they don’t need the extra money of some young folks coming to their shows because of that soundtrack.

  15. 15
    Micke says:

    And then there is the AI enhanced CiT video floating around at You Tube, close to 4 million views..

  16. 16
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Mike has a point and if Ian wasn’t so boneheaded and proud, then DP could and should welcome CIT back into the set (it’s called “breathing with the market”), with him just singing the quiet verses, with either

    – the screams coming from a trio of hot background chicks à la Pink Floyd’s The Great Gig In The Sky,

    or

    – the screams done instrumentally/with backing tracks for which (similar to what Queen would do during Bohemian Rhapsody’s opera part) he could leave stage to – God forbid! – not even give the impression he is doing it himself.

    That would be the elder statesmen-like thing to do to still present that song and do it justice. Everyone would be happy to see DP’s early signature tune return like that and no reasonable person would be disappointed that Ian can no longer do the screams with the necessary elasticity of a young man’s vocal cords. Young people certainly wouldn’t mind, as their generation generally has no expectation/experience that anything they “see live” is actually also “played live” – only a bunch of irrelevant boomers care about that. Most young people find complaints about artists using backing tracks as bewildering as criticizing the use of a beauty filter on pics for an Instagram account, to them the near-perfection of the end result is more important than how you get there. Call that superficial, but it is their world.

    I’m serious. I’d like to hear CIT’s return and Ian doesn’t have to scream a single note of it for me – I know that he could do it once, that is enough for me.

    The focus on the screaming parts to the exclusion of almost anything else in the song (beautiful organ intro, lyrics, dynamic rise of the music and guitar improvisation over a shuffle rhythm) has always eluded me. If Ritchie was still with Purple, but had by now physical issues playing the lightning-fast triplets/quadruplets of the Highway Star solo, would we wish the band to drop the song altogether? That’s silly.

  17. 17
    George Martin says:

    Child In Time was also in the sound track for the movie Twister.

  18. 18
    Attila says:

    Shallow may be netflix and all that business as it is, indeed this is the moment to seize to get the very well deserved global recognition, DP missed out on many times before, due to lame management.

  19. 19
    Attila says:

    Well, and in 2025 it means react and deliver within 24 hours

  20. 20
    Mike Nagoda says:

    Thanks for your support, Uwe!

    I like your idea of rearranging the tune – that said, if Ian could be bothered to work with a coach, he could recover some of that upper range and do the song in a different key – there’s been many cases where rock stars who have lost their upper range have recovered their voice in their senior years with help of vocal coaches who specialize in doing just this.

    I honestly think Ian deserves to get some of that glorious top end back to his voice, he just doesn’t want to for whatever reason, and I guess I feel disappointed, not just as a fan, but also for him because he really could get a bunch of his upper range back if he put in the work. It is entirely doable – Ian just has to find the will to do it!

    Of all the options you suggest (I just can’t see the band with backing vocalists on stage, or using backing tracks, sorry!), having the instruments do the high screams makes the most sense – I remember Steve doing the upper harmonies on his guitar in concerts from the early 2000s where they attempted to bring the song back, only to ultimately retire it.

    I suggest an intriguing possibility for rearranging should the band go the guitar and organ doing the scream melody route if Ian can’t really be bothered to get vocal training at this point:

    That to enhance the section, Ian belts the scream melody in his mid upper baritone range (in a key that’s comfortable for him) that he can reliably hit an octave lower than the guitar and organ, and this would add another interesting layer and texture to the tune. I think it’s worth a shot – everything is up to Ian and the boys of course!

    I really hope they can find some way of re-arranging the tune and playing it live and jump on the opportunity that Stranger Things has brought them, it would be very nice to see it return to the rotation live!

  21. 21
    MacGregor says:

    @ 16- ” if Ian wasn’t so boneheaded and proud, then DP could and should welcome CIT back into the set (it’s called “breathing with the market”) with him just singing the quiet verses”. Pretentious pseudo bullshit Uwe. More of the ‘lets give people a false impression and not give a damn about quality control’. “That would be the elder statesmen-like thing to do to still present that song and do it justice. Everyone would be happy to see DP’s early signature tune return like that and no reasonable person would be disappointed that Ian can no longer do the screams with the necessary elasticity of a young man’s vocal cords. Young people certainly wouldn’t mind, as their generation generally has no expectation/experience that anything they “see live” is actually also “played live” – only a bunch of irrelevant boomers care about that.” Typical of today’s ‘fraud’ market place indeed. Let’s water it all down, why, because some people simply don’t care about lowering the bar. Meaning, ‘it’s better than not hearing it all’ clap trap. Better off not doing it, that is the class and also the true thing to do. Simple really. Cheers.

  22. 22
    MacGregor says:

    @ 16- I forgot the most important ‘ingredient’ Uwe. CIT is a Mark II Deep Purple song ONLY. It has sailed into that great ever lasting abyss of time, like many songs and albums have and it will be left in peace, as it should be. Cheers.

  23. 23
    Max says:

    Very well said, MacGregor. It even sounded strained in the 90s with Mark II still intact. IG has said he never felt comfortable doing it. And I can’t see it coming back in the set and sure don’t need it. I’m glad about the way it’s handled in style.

  24. 24
    Uwe Hornung says:

    What’s with this aversion against chick backing singers with DP? The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music & Lynyrd Skynyrd have all had them for decades, are they all “not rock bands”? And was the final JLT-led Rainbow line-up’s solitary issue the presence of two background singers at Joe’s instigation? Did that somehow impact badly on Ritchie’s guitar playing? 😂

    CIT is Mk II “only” you say, Herr MacGregor? Sure had me fooled then, I remember Mk VII playing it for years and even Reunionbow giving it a go. Or that folkie outfit Blackmore’s Night.

    https://youtu.be/8HbVm_yKRTk

    Not to mention IGB and earliest GILLAN. Oh, and Jon Lord of course …

    https://youtu.be/TSOTjvtXqbA

    You really should have been there, lieber Herr MacGregor, to petition Jon to stop playing it and thus further besmirch his legacy … 🤣

  25. 25
    Uwe Hornung says:

    It’s about using an opportunity, guys, and showing flexibility in approach. A widely loved NETFLIX series picking one of your songs as a theme doesn’t fall from the sky all the time and is the key to accessing an audience otherwise unaware of you.

    Like any good composition, CIT’s arrangement isn’t carved into stone and no one expects Ian to do the same thing vocally as he did in the early 70s.

    DP always claim that they’re current and not “classic rock”, here’s a chance to be relevant with a younger audience. If CIT was a Stones number, you could bet your ass that it would be in the set of the next Stones tour after having found new popularity via a NETFLIX series, Jagger wouldn’t let that opportunity go by unused.

    Of course, DP are old, successful under their own terms and established enough to do what they want and not cater to NETFLIX subscribers, but in sync with the times that is hardly, never mind the views of some curmudgeonly boomers here! 😂

  26. 26
    Fla76 says:

    I’m not interested in hearing BigIan’s screams again in CiT, but it would be a dream to be able to hear the verses sung and all the rest of the song live again

  27. 27
    Tomekk says:

    Gillan used quite recently back up singers including his doughter on Gillan Airey orchestral tour it helped very well with higher registers and given him more comfort. So I don’t think it would be an issue for DP to use backing singers on stage As it’s not comfortable for Ian not only to reach child in time but also in Highway star, space trucking etc…

  28. 28
    AndreA says:

    I have never used netflix 🤘
    No spotify no instagram no facebook no amazon
    No No No

  29. 29
    Max says:

    Einspruch, Euer Ehren!
    Which aversion? Me? I am on record asking DC to come up.with more of that solo stuff with girlie singers, I am one of the few DP fans, or so it seems, who really like the brass section and vocals on ‘DP Live at the Olympia’, I thought it a brave and wise move by RB to bring those ladies on stage for the later Rainbow tours….I am all up for it! And I could do with some ladies in the DP line up as well.
    But I can’t see CiT sung by some background singers and I think it’s right they put it to rest and rather dig out some new or obscure stuff.

  30. 30
    Uwe Hornung says:

    It was a mistake to drop it from the set in the first place, I always thought so. Not because I think it is MK II’s greatest song (I don’t, it’s very much of its time and I personally prefer WABMC), but – for once Uwe’s opinions are irrelevant here – because it is a signature tune for Purple and part of the Mk II/Ian Gillan/sensitive Jon Lord intro/Ritchie tour de force solo-mythology to many more casual listeners (and many diehards of course too). DP not playing it is like Aerosmith sacrificing Dream On, Queen forgetting about Bohemian Rhapsody, Lynyrd Skynyrd discarding Free Bird or Led Zep blocking the Stairway To Heaven etc … all these songs have a ballad at their core, but then develop into something grander, audiences love this kind of stuff and Purple don’t have too many songs in a similar vein, certainly none with the same legendary status.

    Dropping it was a solitary IG decision to which the others reluctantly acquiesced (ironically, Ritchie, Jon and Little Ian with Purpendicular all would continue to play it outside of DP, getting rave audience reactions every time). Ian missed the point in assuming that his high parts are the songs solitary focus; moreover, because Blackmore had tortured him with the number in Purple’s latter days, Ian projected all his resentment for that behavior on the poor song.

    So yes, it should be reinstated, and I’m sure it would receive a rapturous reception at a Purple live gig – and if they invited a kiddies choir on stage to do the high parts (which is actually an idea!). Imagine if they had played that number when commemorating Jon Lord with a Paul Mann orchestral arrangement! It would have been emotional even if Big Ian had burped his part.

    At its core, dropping CIT from the set (and never reintroducing it) was a perhaps understandable- via the trauma induced by the song -, but selfish decision of one man.

    I’d love to hear it one more time at a Purple gig with Ian’s more husky old man voice and I don’t give a fuck who would do the falsetto parts.

  31. 31
    MacGregor says:

    @ 24 – exactly Uwe and all the different cover versions of the song CIT . As it is known it IS a MKII only song from their heyday, period. Who is going to play the Blackmore cameo solo, in all it’s pomp and glory. A key part of the song too, best to leave it as it is for the rock band DP. Mentioning all those 70’s bands in regard to the back up singers is exactly what you said, they have always had them. Some of their studio recorded music has support vocalists. Well the Floyd did, I am not sure about the other bands as I am not a follower of their music. Roxy brought in support vocalist in 1975/6 tour and again the early 80’s, their music supports that situation. This is the conundrum of the only one singer ensemble. Should DP get in vocal support for the aging lead vocalist who has pretty well never had any vocal support before? Is this a sign of desperation? It certainly could look like that at this time of their career. By the way, the IGB version of CIT was well done, not trying to copy the original MKII version. A different take on it back in the day when big Ian could still nail it. He was not nailing it in 1993, that version on the CHOHW concert video is appalling, he would have been much better off not doing it at all. It did belong in the 70’s and early 80’s era. By the way, are you working for one of the mainstream movie franchises, three mentions and all in capital letters in one post, hmmmmmmm, interesting. Seriously, who gives a rats ass about a snippet from some movie or television series? It’s a Beautiful Day. Cheers.

  32. 32
    Karin Verndal says:

    @29

    “And I could do with some ladies in the DP line up as well”

    – but who?

  33. 33
    Max says:

    Just good singers, there are plenty of them. Sam & Vicky Brown from the wider DP family spring to mind, who did a great job back then. DP would surely find 2 öadies with great voices to support IG.

  34. 34
    Andre says:

    @32
    Laura Pausini

  35. 35
    Fla76 says:

    #31 MacGregor:

    I’ve heard many versions of Child in Time from the MK II bis years that are worse than the ones from the 1993 tour.

    for me the best solution would be for bigIan to sing the verse and the part in soft falsetto, and then when the screams start he goes away and a young Gillan appears on the big screen with the recording of his incredible screams from Made in Japan……and we’re all in the purple orgasm!

    I agree with Uwe, it’s time to somehow put Child in time back on the set list, and for bigIan to make peace with his most iconic song

  36. 36
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Wouldn’t you volunteer, Karin, and perhaps bring a friend along?

  37. 37
    Uwe Hornung says:

    The 1993 Stuttgart version wasn’t great, Herr MacGregor, granted. And the IGB version excellent, also true.

    Jagger added backing vocalists sometime in the 70s or 80s at the latest – don’t think it harmed his image as a singer (he’s underrated as a stylist) or as a frontman.

    It’s sometimes the song, not just the singer: CIT is so beloved, it is folly to leave it out and not present it in a way that accommodates Ian’s voice today. Anybody who thinks that an 80-year-old should still be able to do the high parts is out of his mind, look how Steven Tyler literally tore his vocal cords to bits by singing above his range as an old man, I don’t want to see Ian spit blood.

    I just wrote Netflix capitalized, because that is part of their corporate logo:

    https://images.app.goo.gl/Z6u4i

    I do the same with German weekly DER SPIEGEL or TIME magazine, but if capitalization irritates you, we can agree on ac/dc, elp & elo from now on … 🤗 (anything not to aggravate these fearsome Tassie tribesmen!), LIEBER HERR MACGREGOR !!!

    No commercial affiliation other than that Edith is a relatively belated subscriber (she’s the series binge watcher in the family: Grey’s Anatomy, Bridgerton, Outlander etc … was halt Frauen so gern sehen … 😀

  38. 38
    Karin Verndal says:

    @36

    “Wouldn’t you volunteer, Karin, and perhaps bring a friend along?”
    – 😂😆
    Well, first of all I like Purple way too much to ruin their golden years with me bleating up the place!!
    And I don’t have any friends that would be able to drown out my horrible voice!
    But thank you very much for your kind suggestion 😃

  39. 39
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Re choice of a chick backing vocals duo for Grandpa Ian, my money would be on Emi & Donna, aka The Nasty Habits, who in the past have already lent vocally athletic support to Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe (Vince coincidentally would have had issues singing Child In Time too, so there!):

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS2hMy9BzfULVXTQ5G0jibS0002NZes2kxBIg&s

    https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQzfkElFJsK_vxZP1dxIURpbwlwYCtorQjXgQ&s

    As an added bonus, they could also assume health supervision & care duties for all aging DP members:

    https://www.crueseum.com/cdn/shop/files/025-2000100_016-Dr.-Feelgood-Tour-Book.jpg?v=1722909815

    Audience acceptance would not be an issue either as to this day I have not met a Mötley Crüe concert goer who objected to their stage presence, quite on the contrary – it’s all about what’s good for the music, man!

    We would just have to sneak that proposal by Karin I guess …

    Alternatively, we could always ask the inimitable Ms Lorraine Lewis to get a grip on Big Ian’s support:

    https://youtu.be/YBu5lL9i5n4

    https://youtu.be/sZn9gZ3npsY

    Again, I believe the number of detractors to her appearance on stage could be reasonably contained and handled appropriately if need be.

    And what is Ian’s lil’ sis doing in any case?

    https://youtu.be/BU41vlo85kg

    Or Töchterlein Grace, nothing wrong with a little nepotism if it works …

    https://youtu.be/ShXKlldpeb4

  40. 40
    MacGregor says:

    @ 37 – Thanks for the uplifting headline with my name Uwe, very pleased with that. Finally I have managed to climb up the ladder a little and hopefully people will start to take notice of my superb intellectual ramblings. Better late than never, he he he. Getting back to the lead singer being driven into the ground. We all know big Ian hasn’t helped himself in that regard over the decades. However I do (and have for sometime) get why CIT isn’t in a DP setlist anymore. I have also said ( as others have) that ‘Into The Fire’ possibly should be put out to pasture too. Those songs are a tour deforce and of course relate to the debut of Mr Gillan with gusto. A hard task master he appears to be, on himself that is. I don’t mind other people covering CIT, not that I really listen to them, but big Ian obviously doesn’t want a bar of it and in my support for lead vocalists being put through the treadmill, that is why I prefer it to be left out. I don’t see the point of Ian only singing the verse and leaving the falsetto parts to someone else. Each to their own. The streaming ‘giant’ headline joke was just that, a little banter there. I have just been given a Playstation four machine (my interest is purely because it is a blu-ray player) and I have ordered from overseas the two King Crimson live concerts from the most recent incarnation, 2015 and 2018. They are only available on blu-ray, so here goes, this luddite is being transformed, all be it slowly. A few people have already tried to get me into gaming etc. I appreciate their concern that I may be a luddite in that sense, but it isn’t my scene at all. I have enough battles to contend with here at THS to keep me occupied. But as we know, a playstation machine also has that streaming setup of convenience, I doubt I will be getting into that too much. I have watched a few movies over the years with my computer, get in and get out when finished. The last thing I need is to be permanently logged into those sites every day. Big Brother is watching me, why do you think I am hiding out in Tasmania. He is everywhere, even in Denmark. Cheers.

  41. 41
    Karin Verndal says:

    @39

    “ We would just have to sneak that proposal by Karin I guess …”

    It’s been many years since I last were proposed to!

    I would however love to be Purple’s in house homeopath 😃😍😍

  42. 42
    Uwe Hornung says:

    But Karin, you know how old people can be demanding to care for?

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=456350111146263&id=124253151022629&set=a.126684060779538

  43. 43
    Karin Verndal says:

    @42

    Well, when it comes to Purple there isn’t much I wouldn’t do to help them perform.
    You know I am a brilliant homeopath!

  44. 44
    Uwe Hornung says:

    The eagle has landed needle has dropped with DP’s Official YT Channel and they have just now captioned CIT with an explanatory note “(from Stranger Things)”:

    https://youtu.be/Ai0TDkEjJtI

    In the notes it says:

    “Child In Time” as featured in the new trailer from the hit Netflix show Stranger Things

    Revisit the classic Mark II original from the album ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ (1970) here.

    Except for remote region reclusives residing in relentlessly robust rural Tasmania, this seems to be resounding news. 💪🏻👍

    FROM WIKIPDIA:

    Audience viewership

    Netflix did not initially reveal subscriber viewership numbers for their original series, and Symphony Technology Group compiled data for the season based on people using software on their phones that measures television viewing by detecting a program’s sound. According to Symphony, within the first 35 days of release, Stranger Things averaged ratings of around 14.07 million adults between the ages of 18 and 49 in the United States. This made it the third most-watched season of Netflix original content in the U.S. at the time behind the first season of Fuller House and fourth season of Orange Is the New Black. In a September 2016 analysis, Netflix found that Stranger Things “hooked” viewers by the second episode of the first season, indicating that the second episode was “the first installment that led at least 70 percent of viewers who watched that episode to complete the entire first season of a show”.

    For the third season, Netflix revealed that the show had broken viewing records for Netflix, with 40.7 million households having watched the show in its first four days, and 18.2 million already watched the entire series within that timeframe. Within its first month, the third season was watched by 64 million households, setting a new record for the most-watched original Netflix series.

    The series is the most followed TV show on social media app TV Time’s history, with over 5 million followers.

  45. 45
    Karin Verndal says:

    @44

    That song still brings an overflow of tears in my eyes!

    I mean! Listen to that delicate voice 🤩

    Would I like Ian still be singing like that?
    No, not really, but man I’m grateful we have those magnets recordings 😍
    So thanks to whoever it was that made this possible
    (Uwe, I guess you know who is responsible for this technology 😃)

  46. 46
    Fla76 says:

    Today is a sad day because another of the legends of the rock triumvirate (after The Master Lord) has left us….infinite gratitude to Ozzy Osbourne for the masterpieces he created, the emotions he gave us and all the heavy metal he influenced!

    Unfortunately this reminds us that the clock is also ticking for the best band on the planet and all the purple satellites

  47. 47
    Alessandro says:

    @17
    Unfortunately, in Twister, they have CIT in background with the footage of the California Jam, which is, of course, a huge mistake…

    Cheers

    Alessandro

  48. 48
    Dr. Bob says:

    Good to see that young people got a chance to hear the greatest song in rock history.

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