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Donald McLean was delivering newspapers in New Rochelle when he learned that Buddy Holly had died in a 1959 plane crash. More than a decade later...
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When Doris Day recorded "Que Sera, Sera" for Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 suspense thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much, nobody anticipated it becoming...
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By 1970, The Kinks faced declining commercial momentum and desperately needed a hit. Ray Davies found their salvation not in heavy guitar riffs,...
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While riding a prop plane across Europe in 1968, Robin Gibb turned the steady mechanical hum of an engine into a choral harmony. That airborne in...
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Before he commanded international stages and topped global charts, Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner taught elementary school by day and played bass i...
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After being famously passed over for the film adaptation of My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews channeled a major career disappointment into cinematic hi...