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The band name Joy Division made me aware of the brothels set up in the nazi concentration camps where the female prisoners were forced into prostitution and sexual slavery... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_camp_brothels_in_World_War_II

Thats a testament to the educational power of the fusion of song and football forums.... And if you read my reply (post #21) you'll learn even more about it.

From the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water" I learnt about the fire which burned down the Montreaux Casino in Switzerland in 1971. I also learned that the fire was started by some stupid with a flare gun. Another thing I learned from the song was that Frank Zappa and the Mother's of...

Through the Peter Gabriel song Biko, I learnt about Steve Biko the anti-apartheid activist who died while in police custody after being severely beaten during an interrogation in 1977. The song was released three years later..

Although he didn't sing the original version I first learnt about the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti from Christy Moore...

The killing of mobster "Crazy" Joe Gallo in a clam bar in New York...

The killing of four students at Kent State University by the National Guard at an anti Vietnam War demonstration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings "Ohio" by Neil Young

And unusually for a school shooter the perpetrator was a girl... Brenda Ann Spencer. She's still incarcerated and her next parole hearing is in 2025. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego)

I learnt quite a lot about events concerning the American Civil Rights Movement through the songs of Bob Dylan. One was the abduction and lynching of 14 year old Emmett Till after he allegedly flirted with a white woman in a store... "The Death of Emmett Till" : Bob Dylan

Presumably that was before he went on his murder spree?

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 in the Dark...

I learnt about the executed murderer Gary Glimore who donated his eyes to science through this song by The Adverts....

This thread is about things, events and people you first learned about through a song or a band name. Specifically things which you were previously unaware of. It's NOT a thread just about famous events and people which you already knew about. I'll start with the life imprisonment of the...

Tonight's Panorama is devoted to trying to understand Trump supporters https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/oct/28/tv-tonight-panorama-speaks-to-donald-trump-supporters

Ironic that this was the one rally that the immigrant Melania chose to make an appearance and speak at.

I posted this a few days ago and judging by tonight's speakers they really are trying to relive the spirit of the 1939 Madison Square Garden rally.

It's so appalling and unbelievable that I'm actually wondering if they're trying to sabotage Trump from within.

The most iconic photo of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier