Don McLean is a refined American singer-songwriter born in 1945, who has never been a star of the first magnitude...
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The BBC’s first pop music show, Six-Five Special, was broadcast on this day, November 16 1957, from the tiny 2i’s...
Most people have heard the story, in one form or another, of the legendary Delta Blues guitar player who went...
Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings still intact...
Some forty miles from New York, there is a place called Rosemary Farm (or Roland Conklin Estate), a Long Island...
Usually you not hear, in the same sentence, names like Queen Victoria, Matthew Barney, Jules Verne, and Pink Floyd but,...
The little Australian village of Mullumbimby is one of the last places on Earth you would expect to find a...
We are in Ibiza. The island wasn't always the party hotspot it is today. It wasn’t until the late 1960s...
Nowadays, the performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah oratorio at Christmas time is a tradition almost as deeply entrenched as...
Carmen, now one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world, had its premiere on this day,...
Exactly fifty years ago half a million hippies, beatniks, and long-hairs descended upon upstate New York for the Woodstock music...
The summer of 2007 was an exciting year for White Stripe fans in Canada: Jack White and Meg White of...
We are in England, and If you want go to visit Ilkey Moor, be sure to wear a hat. At...
A few minutes’ walk from the Woodstock Village Green, a zone often filled with lively music and art, there is...
This story is probably another chapter in the book of the countless Christmas legend, and another checkbox in our advent...
In Vienna, a teenage girl drowned herself while clutching a piece of sheet music. In Budapest, a shopkeeper killed himself...
"A long time ago (it was 2005, NDR), here it was always party." These are the words of D, a...
