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Today-Music-History-Jan26

Today in Music History for Jan. 26: In 1859, the Victoria Philharmonic Society was founded. It was the first amateur musical organization in what now is British Columbia. In 1892, New York's ...
Discover 10 forgotten bands from the 1980s who made significant contributions to the decade's music scene but didn't quite ...
By 1977, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, and Foreigner already hinted at what the 1980s were going to sound like.
"Someone spat at our saxophone player, so Tim kicked this guy in the mouth – absolutely perfectly in time to the music" ...
From Kate Bush to Metallica and The Clash, Stranger Things used specific songs on purpose and each one changed how viewers ...
Aditya Dhar’s period spy thriller Dhurandhar has been making history at the box office, and amid the multiple viewings, fans can’t help but break down each scene from the film, as they look for clues ...
Neil Young was angry when he sat down to write the lyrics to 1988’s “This Note’s for You.” Throughout the decade, he’d seen everyone from Eric Clapton and Michael Jackson to David Bowie and Tina ...
Singer-songwriter Chris Rea found fame in the late 1970s and 80s with huge hits such as Driving Home For Christmas, Fool (If You Think It’s Over) and Let’s Dance. Known for his gravelly voice and ...
Part “Space Oddity” by David Bowie and part Russian folk music, “The Killing Moon” sounds uniquely British and global at the same time. Meanwhile, singer Ian McCulloch updates Jim Morrison’s ...
Ege features on the first, and weightiest, piece on the disc, the Piano Concerto of 1936 (subsequently revised twice), premiered in 1943. It is quite Rachmaninov-like in its lush outer movements ...