Cult career of music’s Sugar Man ignited Down Under
Sixto Rodriguez sang powerful songs of social decay and lives lost to big city squalor and crime – they were unforgettable, but the world quickly forgot him.
Sixto Rodriguez sang powerful songs of social decay and lives lost to big city squalor and crime – they were unforgettable, but the world quickly forgot him.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary wanted to be a tough-boy London rapper and worried his mum. Then he went online holding a severed head.
Fifty years ago, Mike Oldfield’s misunderstood Tubular Bells was languishing – until William Friedkin found it perfect as the soundtrack for his horror classic, The Exorcist.
It is 25 years ago today that most of the Russian Royal family was buried in a state funeral, but the remains of the youngest children are still held in an archive.
Mutulu Shakur was many things – killer, thief, would-be revolutionary and an acupuncturist – but mostly a prison inmate.
Hipolito Mora grew lemons on his small farm – and then grew tired of the brutal standover men who ruined his Mexican homeland.
Strange brushes in history, from Elvis Presley’s curious meeting with Richard Nixon to the duke and duchess of Windsor shaking hands with Adolf Hitler.
Deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet was a hero in France, but others were less impressed that he collected artefacts from the Titanic.
A brilliant doctor looked at the obsessive, disconnected Donald Triplett and, like his parents, imagined a future for the boy.
The criticism of the disgraced US leader never abated, but Richard Nixon rebuilt his reputation after Watergate as one of the world’s most insightful statesmen.
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