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#OnThisDay #LateNight 📺 #TV January 9, 1985 - Laura appeared for her third time on late night's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," as she was promoting her third album SELF CONTROL, which released the previous year. Laura and her talented band performed two songs live - the heart wrenching ballad "Ti Amo," written by the same team that wrote "Gloria," Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi, with English lyrics written by Diane Warren; and the sensual, upbeat "Satisfaction," with music writ

#OnThisDay #TV October 25, 1985 - Laura made her fifth visit to late-night television's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" to once again promote her fourth album HOLD ME. Laura and her band brilliantly performed her awesome cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young," the song which would go on to become Laura's beloved concert encore. After the live performance, Laura sat down for a chat with Johnny, which began with Laura giving him a surprise gift as a joke, as a bit of payback for having be

#OnThisDay #BillboardHot100 October 24, 1987 - Laura debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at #97 with the emotive powerhouse ballad "Power of Love," the second single from her fifth album TOUCH. In August 2003, Laura told "In Newsweekly," "Well, I really love 'Power of Love' because I'm really an emotional singer and that song represents the ultimate in emotion. It also shows the ultimate power in my vocal range." That power and that raw emotion expressed in the vocals on "Power of Love" is un