In America, it is a fairly well-known historical fact that the legendary mob boss Al Capone was brought to justice not by uniformed officers of the Chicago Police Department, but by the punctilious accountants of the FBI. However, in England there were at least a few young men that didn't have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace's "The Night Chicago Died" crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1974.
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"The Night Chicago Died" was a story-song chronicling a deadly 1930s gun battle between Chicago cops and Al Capone's foot soldiers on the "East Side of Chicago"—a battle that never happened on a side of Chicago which, if it existed, would lie beneath the surface of Lake Michigan. But if "The Night Chicago Died" failed to go through a rigorous fact-check process prior to its release, it was certainly understandable. Just weeks before their sole international hit topped the Billboard pop chart, Paper Lace had watched another potential hit stolen from them by an American group called Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.
Today in Mr. Johnson's classes:
In all classes today we reviewed classroom procedures & expectations for the upcoming year.
Mr. Johnson
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