Franck Robach

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Oasis was played yesterday during the final of the 2026 World Cup match between England and Croatia

[Rémi Fauconnier @RemiFauconnier]

Hier soir, dans le mythique studio du château d’𝗛é𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲, 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗿, guitariste de 𝗕𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗲 lors de l’enregistrement de l’album 𝗟𝗼𝘄, rejouait sur les bandes originales d’époque, 50 ans plus tard, au même endroit.
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.

[Stephane Celerier @stephanecel]

1976. Il y a 50 ans …
Des ouvriers, des familles entassées devant une télé tout juste en couleur.
Des klaxons dans les rues.
Des larmes, des cris, des radios collées à l’oreille.

Saint-Étienne, ce n’était pas juste une équipe de foot.
C’était le cœur de la France qui battait en vert.

Parce que cette équipe-là ne représentait pas seulement un club.
Elle représentait l’espoir.
La fierté populaire.
La France qui travaille, qui rêve, qui s’unit.

En 1976, pendant 90 minutes,
tout un pays était stéphanois.

Et ceux qui l’ont vécu ne l’ont jamais oublié 💚🙏

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

One of the wildest things you will hear 🤯

[LE CHAT QUI FUME @lechatquifume]

Quoi !! Des BLURAY à gagner avec @D_S_Reviews ! Mais c'est un scandale !

[AS Saint-Étienne @ASSEofficiel]

📽️ 6 novembre 1974.
Le début d'une épopée ! 💚

[ボッシュート兄貴(誤字脱字マン) @stranglers121]

Fugazi最高❗

[Schnitzel @Schnitzel63]

The Knack - My Sharona, live 1979

[francetvsport @francetvsport]

#Paris2024 | 🇫🇷🥹 "MARCHAAAAND, MARCHAAAAAND"

8e Marseillaise depuis le début de ces Jeux, la 3e pour le roi Léon Marchand ! LÉGENDAIRE !

Les JO en direct : https://t.co/hHHwOiAOqk

[2 Tone Dublin @TwoToneDublin]

Easing into Sunday with this beauty.
Lovely Day, Bill Withers.
Have a great day Rudies 🖤 🏁

#2ToneDublin #2Tone #TwoTone #Ska #Reggae #PunkRock #Music #SkaMusic #RockSteady #Punk #Soul #NorthernSoul

[2 Tone Dublin @TwoToneDublin]

Starting #TwoToneTuesday with the Rat Race, The Specials 🖤🏁

#2ToneDublin #2Tone #TwoTone #Ska #Reggae #PunkRock #Music #SkaMusic #RockSteady #Punk #Soul #NorthernSoul

[INA.fr @Inafr_officiel]

Quand Françoise Hardy chantait "Message personnel" en 1973 💌

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

Coppola upholding tradition (going to Cannes and dropping one of the hardest quotes of all time)

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Before THE PHANTOM MENACE was releaaed in 1999, Newsweek published an article criticising the performance of 9 year old Jake Lloyd as Anakin Skywalker. A furious Ron Howard send them the below letter...

[2 Tone Dublin @TwoToneDublin]

Another year around the sun here today so we're celebrating with one of our favourites. Night Boat to Cairo, Madness 🍻🖤🏁

#2ToneDublin #2Tone #TwoTone #Ska #Reggae #PunkRock #Music #SkaMusic #RockSteady #Punk #Soul #NorthernSoul

[Eric Lagadec✨🌍 @EricLagadec]

On avait perdu le contact avec la sonde Voyager 1, partie de la Terre il y a 46 ans et qui vogue maintenant à plus de 24 milliards de kilomètre de nous, après avoir quitté le système solaire.
On vient de re-rentrer en contact avec la sonde. Thread en images👇

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood & Eric Clapton performing "People Get Ready" at Jeff Beck Tribute in London, 2023.

This is quite beautiful, in every way, but it also serves as a reminder that there never has been, and never will be, another person that plays the guitar like Jeff Beck.

[Schnitzel @Schnitzel63]

Ministry - Jesus bulit my hotrod

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

David Bowie performing "Under Pressure".

As Freddie was no longer with us, he sang it for Freddie as well ❤️
#DavidBowie