Zager And Evans
One of the biggest-selling hits of 1969 was the pessimistic look into the future, In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) by Zager and Evans. The duo was Denny Zager (b. 1944, Wymore, Nebraska, USA) and Rick Evans (b. 1943, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), who had met in 1962 and joined a band called the Eccentrics. Evans left that band in 1965 but the pair teamed up again at the end of the decade. Zager had written In The Year 2525 five years earlier, and they recorded it in Texas in 1968. It was released on the local Truth label and picked up the following year by RCA Records, climbing to number 1, where it remained for six weeks in the US charts and three weeks in the UK, ultimately selling a reported five million copies. Unable to follow this success, Zager quit in 1970; neither he nor Evans were heard from again, although RCA continued to release their recordings for some time in attempts to make lightning strike twice.