Pop culture
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In the history of popular music ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ must be the most ironic song ever to hit the airwaves, Ironic in 2 ways,firstly it was the song that launched MTV on August 1,1981. Secondly, that same MTV eventually killed itself. The song was written by written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce
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1978 must have been one of the most significant years well at least in a pop culture way, the amount of classic movies that were released that year and classic songs is just phenomenal. Lets start with some of the songs. Wuthering Heights Written by an 18 year old Kate Bush taken from the album
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This is something that had slipped my mind but on this day in 1994, Michael Jackson married Lisa-Marie Presley. They first met nearly 2 decades before they got married.He was introduced to her when he was 16 ans she was 6.at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada by her Elvis. Elvis head
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I think it is safe to say that Dallas was one if not ‘the’ biggest TV show ever to be aired, probably even bigger than “Game of Thrones” and in a way the shows have similarities even though they are set in completely different settings. I know they tried to revive ‘Dallas’ a few years
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On March 6 1940 WWII had not yet gone global, a lot of countries had not been affected by the war. Although the anxiety of an impending war was prevalent it was still a matter of “business as usual” in a majority of nations. On that same day Detective Comics introduced Batman’s sidekick. Dick
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The sad-sack bartender from The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak, is actually based on Louis “Red” Deutsch, a bartender in Jersey City who came to prominence following a number of popular phone pranks being played on him by Bum Bar Bastards, a group of prank callers in the 70s. Deutsch’s reactions of anger and threats inspired the dynamic between Bart
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This question will trigger 2 new questions. The 1st one by younger generations who never experienced the anxiety that Dallas fans had, their question will be “Who is Jr?” The second group who belong to my generation and older, when they realize that the question in the title was answered today 37 years ago, they
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