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So it appears that your problem isn't recognising faces but recognising the question.

Worse than bad. An absolute tragedy. More needless deaths and sufferng caused by the mere existence of Trump in this world. Perhaps a martyrd Trump would have been better than a living one after all.

Essex maybe, but I'd draw the line at Kent and Sussex

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LD: Please don't go babe, I've missed you so much AM: We'll meet up again soon, I promise,

He reminds me a bit of the Crackle character of the Snap Crackle and Pop trio on the old Rice Krispes packets

It appears you can learn quite a lot about history from I Like Trains albums as their album "Elegies to Lessons Learnt" which that song comes from and also their previous album "Progress Reform" feature quite a few songs about historical events: "Twenty Five Sins" is about the Great Fire of...

The haunting "Lord Franklin" by Pentangle / John Renbourne / taught me about the fatal 1845 Franklin Expedition and their failed attempt to cross the North West Passage. The expedition ended with the deaths /disappearance of the entire expedition crew. So when the wreck of their ship HMS...

In those days we relied on bands like Boney M to provide us with a broad and varied education of our socio-political history which we might not have been so receptive to in our school history lessons Rivers of Babylon: a song expressing the lamentations of the Jewish people in exile following...

What's interesting about that song is the way Dylan used the tradition of romanticising old American outlaws in a ballad and applied it to a contemporary mobster. Dylan had previously romanticised Billy the Kid on his "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" soundtrack and he also identifies with Jesse...

Anyone got a stream? Mine's not working.

@Harry Wilson's tackle judging by your emoji reaction you didn't understand my reference, which was to the obvious benefits you reap from your fondness for ignore function

I learnt about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton on Christmas day in 1895 from Mississippi John Hurt... If I hadn't first learnt it from him I would have learnt about it later from Nick Cave who did his own very different version.

I learnt about the symbolism of a yellow ribbon from Tony Orlando and Dawn

This song would have taught you something had you not already known it....

I learnt about 50s/60s singer Vince Taylor through the song Ziggy Stardust. I'd never heard of him before, nor have many people. Taylor was the inspiration for the song's title character...

I was thinking about them earlier. I can't remember for certain but I may have learnt about the Attica Prison riots from the song Rubber Bullets which is what inspired the song.

Great album. I think Blood on the Tracks just edges it for me though.

Or "The Kick Inside" which is about a consensual incestual relationshjp between a brother and a sister and the sister becomes pregnant as a result. That's quite dark subject matter. The song was inspired by a traditional folk song called Lucy Wan...