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  Neil Diamond's teenage obsessions: 'The Brooklyn Dodgers betrayed me and broke my heart'

  Neil Diamond's teenage obsessions: 'The Brooklyn Dodgers betrayed me and broke my heart'. As his 80th birthday approaches, Neil Diamond reminisces about Pete Seeger, the Everly Brothers and how a baseball team’s desertion led him to the guitar

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  Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger review – a timely tribute

  Long Time Passing: Kronos Quartet and Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger review – a timely tribute(Folkways) Aided by well-chosen singers, the string quartet has created a fearless tribute to the godfather of folk protest

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  Linda Buckley: From Ocean's Floor review – folk to take you from the sea to the stars

  Linda Buckley: From Ocean's Floor review – folk to take you from the sea to the stars(NMC) The Irish composer combines traditional séan-nos singing with an electronic soundscape, connecting past and future

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  The day Dylan went electric: ‘They certainly booed, I’ll tell you that’

  The poet in black struck an angry chord and told his people how it feels. “I got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insane,” Bob Dylan barked over a skiffle rock clatter called “Maggie’s Farm”, a servant-class metaphor for breaking free of the oppressive, conformist shackles of 1960s America. The song ended in a flurry of bluesy discord, and a roar went up unlike any heard in popular music before. Half shock and excitement, half dissent and betrayal, a torrid clash of howls and boos. At th

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  'The Lion King' and the controversial history of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'

  Timon and Pumbaa's duet was originally written by a South African musician called Solomon Linda who didn't get credit for decades.

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  Etta James's This Little Light of Mine: Why the civil rights anthem was an inspired way to close the royal wedding

  Etta James's This Little Light of Mine: Why the civil rights anthem was an inspired way to close the royal wedding

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  Robert Caro talks Lyndon Johnson, music and the 1960s

  Robert Caro has been thinking a lot about the 1960s. The Pulitzer Prize winning historian shared some observations this weekend — and some insights into his famously thorough research — during a 45-minute address at the New-York Historical Society, where hundreds gathered for a "Weekend with History." Caro has been immersed in the decade as he writes the fifth, and presumed last, of his Lyndon Johnson books. "What do we mean when we talk about the '60s?" Caro said at the start.

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  Civil rights song 'We Shall Overcome' part of public domain

  The civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome," which has been quoted by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was made popular by folk singer Pete Seeger, has been declared a part of public domain. Ludlow Music, the song's publisher, agreed in a New York federal court last week to back down on claims of copyright after losing a summary judgment in the case.

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  Music makes me cry my eyes out – here’s a guide to the tracks of my tears | Simon Hattenstone

  ‘This Land is Your Land, sung by Pete Seeger with Bruce Springsteen at the Obama inauguration, breaks my heart. Researchers have just discovered that crying to sad music is mood enhancing. The Japanese study surveyed how 154 participants responded to music, and how often they experienced goose bumps, shivers, crying or a lump in their throat.

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  This Land Is Our Land: how Lady Gaga sang an anti-Trump protest song at the Super Bowl without anybody noticing

  The reviews that tumbled in on Monday morning largely praised Gaga’s performance, but noted that the avowed Trump critic spared her audience any controversy. Inclusivity, love and kindness has always been the backbone of Gaga’s music and image, and this was the case on stage at the NRG Stadium in Houston: Gaga sang her LGBT anthem Born This Way and was backed by a crew of dancers of colour.

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