Coal prices soar to $300 a tonne. After a five-year downturn, the worldâs least-loved commodity is burning brightly again. Premium hard Australian coking coal rose 6 per cent to $307.2 a tonne on Tuesday, extending gains since April to 250 per cent, according to a price assessment from the Steel Index.
In 1986, a dance remix of the original Black Is Black by Los Bravos was released as a single. Europop band Joy released their version of the song as a 1987 single. In 1996, the song was covered by the Spanish pop/rock band La Union uniÃ³n on their, Album. hiperespacio
Lead singer Mike Kogel's vocals sounded so similar to Gene Pitney that many listeners assumed that Black Is Black was a Pitney single. In August 1966, the song debuted at number 100 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It peaked at number four in October, and spent 12 weeks on the chart.