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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Through the Peter Gabriel song Biko, I learnt about Steve Biko the anti-apartheid activist who died while in police custody after being...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Although he didn't sing the original version I first learnt about the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti from Christy Moore...
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Skynd have taught me about many different serial killers/cults, very unique band who played Green Door Store at Great Escape 2019 I... -
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The murder of servant Hattie Carroll by plantation owner William Zinzinger
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..The killing of mobster "Crazy" Joe Gallo in a clam bar in New York...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..The killing of four students at Kent State University by the National Guard at an anti Vietnam War demonstration...
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Mainly through Bob Dylan - Medgar Evers, George Jackson, Hattie Carroll, probably more.
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Somehow I got into my 50s before learning who Jack Parsons was. Introduced to his story by the Luke Haines and Peter Buck song...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..And unusually for a school shooter the perpetrator was a girl... Brenda Ann Spencer. She's still incarcerated and her next parole...
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Always a big Luther Vandross fan, but never knew that he was a backing singer for Bowie and Chaka Khan.
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About an early US school shooting. As a kid in the UK, it was an insight into American extremes.
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..I learnt quite a lot about events concerning the American Civil Rights Movement through the songs of Bob Dylan. One was the abduction...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Presumably that was before he went on his murder spree?
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..I wasn't aware of the name of the aeroplane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima until I heard this song by Orchestral Manoeuvres...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..I learnt about the executed murderer Gary Glimore who donated his eyes to science through this song by The Adverts....