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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.
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[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.
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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.
Vincent by Don McLean
First brought home the genius of Van Gogh for me.
So much more than Sunflowers.
First brought home the genius of Van Gogh for me.
So much more than Sunflowers.
Must have been hilarious for a ten year old listening to In the Middle of the Night
I learnt everything there is to know about astrology from The Fifth Dimenson's Age of Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In.
More seriously, I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard of Sandinista before coming across the Clash album of the same name. One day I'll reach the end of the album and I'll have the chance to look up what it actually is.
More seriously, I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard of Sandinista before coming across the Clash album of the same name. One day I'll reach the end of the album and I'll have the chance to look up what it actually is.
METALMICKY
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One of many ' educational ' songs from my favourites Iron Maiden. Many people will know the line 'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink' . However, few including myself would have known it's origin is Coleridge's poem. If you want to teach kids about a classic poem in a more interesting less dry manner here's a great example.
I’d never heard of the game Space Invaders until the Piranhas released a 7” of the same name.
Charlie Livesey
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Sham 69 told me "George Davis is Innocent" , turned out he may not have been.
METALMICKY
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As a big cricket fan never been more pissed off to discover they'd dug up the pitch.
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The killing of four students at Kent State University by the National Guard at an anti Vietnam War demonstration.
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"Ohio" by Neil Young
Kent State shootings - Wikipedia
"Ohio" by Neil Young
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The murder of servant Hattie Carroll by plantation owner William Zinzinger
David Byrne of Talking Heads sang, "There is water at the bottom of the ocean". I would never have known that otherwise.
nwgull
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You sure you got the right song?
I don’t think Korn ever covered Running to that Hill, and its lyrics aren’t about anything particularly sinister.
Taybha
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Right Song , Wrong group, it was Placebo
I learnt who Liddle Towers was from an Upstarts song.
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So what do you make of the lyrics? I always assumed it was about a man and a woman trying to understand each other.Right Song , Wrong group, it was Placebo
Desire album wasn't it? I'd well gone off Dylan by then! (only anything before Nashville Skyline for me!)
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I learnt that Sade doesn't rhyme with Slade
Can't put out such decent rock singles either!