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On this day, in 1980, one of the greatest singer who has ever been on earth has been assassinated.

RIP John

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"Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one..."🎶

No John, you are not the only one.

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Nas's father appear on the track: Life's a bitch, and plays trumpet and his friend AZ also feature the song with a verse.

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Nas had a special connection with Dj Premier, the beats of Illmatic are considerated as the best and were very popular in New-York's streets

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Nas was only 19 when he recorded one of the greatest hip-hop album of all the time, mainly for the lyrics.

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The creator of The Motown believed that the song was too politically involved and thought that it would be a failure...he was wrong.

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What's going on was just a single for The Originals. But the members of The Four Tops convinced Marvin to record the song

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The 11th album of Marvin Gaye, What's Going On, is very politically involved and talks about ecology, corruption..

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13 year ago, 8 mile was released. The movie of Curtis Hanson generated about 370M $ . One of the best "music" movie.

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CBS Records president, W.Yetnikoff put pressure and convinced them to publish Billie Jean which became very popular all over the world.

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At the beginning MTV didn't want to share MJ's musics because he was black. The TV channel was called "KKKTV " (Ku Klux Klan TV).

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Michael Jackson has sold more than 50M copies of Thriller (1982) which make it the album most sold of all time.

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Eminem is the only Hip-Hop artist who received an oscar for his work on the 8 Mile soundtrack.

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@delicioussmusic At this Time, the LGBT community was not accepted in the US society, that's why it is such a powerfull video

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FACT:
In 1984, when Queen released the music video of "I want to break free", it was banned by MTV in the US.

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@CorkScrew12 Wiki said 1974 but I know that you can find 1972 on google but also 1973 on youtube... So I had to pick up one of these three..

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FACT:
Anthony Hopkins composed a waltz "And the waltz goes on" and send it to Andre Rieu who played it at a concert.

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Today, Seal dropped "Seal 7",his 9th album.
He modernize the soul once again with an other great album.

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The Beatles have sold 32 million copies of this album that make it the 12th highest sales ever. 31 albums has been sold more than 30M time.

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@delicioussmusic But there is a lot of celebrities on this cover:
Marilyn Monroe
Shirley Temple
Bob Dylan
Oscar Wild
Karl Marx
Marlon Brando