What if Tusk had appeared in 1977?

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Originally Posted by Villavic

Was Tusk the lead single in the US? I was 13 in 1979 and wasn't a Mac fan yet, so my memory can betray me, but the only new Mac song I heard in the peruvian radios in 1979/80 was Sara. Years later, a cover of Angel (with different lyric) was used for an Ammen shampoo commercial.

I guess I would remember Tusk on radios, cause those "different" songs always caught my attention (like Bohemian Rhapsody), but I don't. So I wonder how did the Tusk song fare worldwide.

Just for fun here's the commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-JIEv91oE

Yes it certainly was—and with much fanfare. The accompanying video played on tv and I remember being a nine year old asking “how is the same band?”

How did the song fare? Very well. It was weird but there was a shock value. And I recall it being played on rock stations for years and years. Never on pop stations after 1980…