After Rush’s 1975 album “Caress of Steel†had disappointing sales, Mercury Records considered dropping the band. However, they were allowed to make one more album. Despite pressure from the label to go commercial, Rush ignored them and in 1976 released their breakthrough prog-rock album: “2112â€.
On March 5, 1959, Twenty-One Black Boys Burned to Death After Being Locked in Segregated and Neglected Arkansas “Reform†School. The children 13-17 were living at the Negro Boys Industrial School (NBIS), a juvenile work farm located just outside the predominantly Black town of Wrightsville, Arkansas