One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
Today in 1982 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor was released.
Classic. Classic anthem.
Bluesky will be read-only overnight, and broadcast in-vision on BBC 2 for viewers without a teletext enabled smartphone.
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Never speak ill of the dead and all that, but let's not forget Roger Cook was responsible for one of the most revolting episodes of gutter sensationalism ever seen on British TV.
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” - Albert Camus
‘Carry on Camping’ released this day in 1969.
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Lee Healey ✍🏻
Lee Healey ✍🏻
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Very Joy Division-y, which is almost certainly the point #gimwr
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Aha! Confirmation that the French way of saying -borough is -bourg, thus adding fuel to the fire that Serge Gainsbourg is basically a suburb of Scunthorpe
The Cook Report, 26th November 1996, ITV, 8:30pm: ROGER COOK: Colin Stagg was the the prime suspect in the Rachel Nickell murder case. He was charged after an undercover policewoman enticed him to …
