It Was the Best of Times selections from Supertramp's career to that point, still eschewing their first two LPs, without really adding anything to the portrait painted by the slimmer edition." All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted. It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 1999. The album title makes use of the opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. "It Was the Best of Times" was recorded in September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England,
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1949 The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1949 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped "The New York Times" Fiction Best Seller list in 1949. Only four novels topped the list that year, which was dominated by John P. Marquand's "Point of No Return" which spent 22 straight weeks at the top of the list though it only lasted 34 weeks in the top 15 overall. Marquand's book is notable for its lampooning of W. Lloyd Warner, an anthropologist with whom Marquand had a personal grudge. "Point of No Return" was toppled by John O'Hara's "Rage