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October 10, 2026
STORY · Pop
Arthur: The Kinks' Album That Outlived Its Cancelled TV Play
The Kinks wrote Arthur Morgan's story for a Granada Television play that was cancelled before filming, and the 1969 album it became outlived the broadcast.
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Cover of “Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)” by The Kinks. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Pop
Why Did Introspective Make Pet Shop Boys Break Their Own Rules?
On 10 October 1988, the Pet Shop Boys released Introspective on Parlophone. Every track on the third album ran six minutes or more, with the long version coming first.
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Cover of “Introspective” by Pet Shop Boys. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Rock
How The Beach Boys Built a Pocket Symphony
Brian Wilson spent seven months and four Hollywood studios assembling 'Good Vibrations', the 1966 Beach Boys single he called a 'pocket symphony'.
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Cover of “Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Rock
How Radiohead Made the Industry Pay Attention
On 10 October 2007 Radiohead released In Rainbows as a pay-what-you-want download. It was the first time a major artist had tried such a release and drawn international attention.
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Cover of “In Rainbows” by Radiohead. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Other
How Orson Welles Left the Stage
Orson Welles died of a heart attack on 10 October 1985, hours after a television interview with Merv Griffin, at the age of sixty-nine.
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Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Soundtracks
Michael Giacchino and the Basement Sound That Won an Oscar
Michael Giacchino, born in Riverside, New Jersey in 1967, went from scoring stop-motion animations in a basement to winning an Oscar for Pixar's 'Up'.
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STORY · Folk
John Prine: The Mailman Who Changed Folk Music
John Prine was still delivering mail for the US Postal Service when a night at Chicago's Fifth Peg turned him into a songwriter's songwriter.
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Atlantic Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Rock
How U2's Rattle and Hum Chased America and Lost Its Way
U2's Rattle and Hum, released on 10 October 1988, mixed live recordings with new studio tracks. The Irish band tried to plant themselves inside American music.
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Cover of “Rattle and Hum” by U2. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Rock
King Crimson and the Day Progressive Rock Was Born
King Crimson recorded In the Court of the Crimson King without a producer at Wessex Sound Studios in 1969. The album arrived on Island Records on 10 October 1969.
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Cover of “In the Court of the Crimson King” by King Crimson. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Folk
How Jagjit Singh Lost His Voice and Found a New One
Jagjit Singh arrived in Bombay in 1965 and built a career that made ghazals a household sound in India, first with Chitra Singh and then alone after 1990.
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Krupasindhu Muduli, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Folk
How Solomon Burke Became the King of Rock 'n' Soul
Solomon Burke signed with Atlantic Records in 1960 after a ten-minute meeting with Jerry Wexler. He became one of the first singers called a soul artist and was crowned King of Rock 'n' Soul in 1963.
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STORY · Rock
Why Did Pink Floyd Put a Cow on Atom Heart Mother?
Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, released in the UK on 2 October 1970, put a Holstein cow named Lulubelle III on the cover. The first side held a 23-minute orchestral suite.
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Cover of “Atom Heart Mother” by Pink Floyd. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Metal
How Come Taste the Band Almost Saved Deep Purple
By the time Deep Purple started work on Come Taste the Band, the band had already lost its most famous face. The tenth studio album from the British hard rock g…
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Cover of “Come Taste the Band” by Deep Purple. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Metal
How Thin Lizzy's Chinatown Survived a Band in Chaos
Thin Lizzy began recording Chinatown at Good Earth Studios in January 1980. The sessions were torn apart by touring, lineup changes and a teenage keyboardist finding his place.
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Cover of “Chinatown” by Thin Lizzy. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Pop
Why Was Bae Suzy Rejected Before She Got Famous?
Bae Suzy was eliminated in the preliminary round of a 2009 TV talent audition. A JYP Entertainment scout spotted her anyway, and she became one of South Korea's most bankable stars.
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October 9, 2026
STORY · Rock
How Marek Grechuta Built Poland's Most Delicate Songbook
Marek Grechuta, the Polish singer and composer, died in Kraków on 9 October 2006 at the age of 60. Trained as an architect, he built a songbook out of poetry and paintings.
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STORY · Alternative
Anathema's A Fine Day to Exit
Anathema released A Fine Day to Exit on 9 October 2001 through Music for Nations. Its closing track runs nearly nineteen minutes and hides an acoustic song behind five minutes of silence.
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Cover of “A Fine Day to Exit” by Anathema. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Classical
Einojuhani Rautavaara Started Piano at Seventeen
Einojuhani Rautavaara, born in 1928, did not begin formal piano lessons until he was 17, after losing both parents as a child. The delay, not a prodigy's start, shaped his composing career.
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STORY · Metal
How Venom Rebuilt Without Cronos on Prime Evil
Venom released Prime Evil in 1989 as their first album without Conrad 'Cronos' Lant, built around new bassist and vocalist Tony Dolan of Atomkraft.
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Cover of “Prime Evil” by Venom. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Pop
How Did Nicky Byrne Go From Leeds to Westlife?
Nicky Byrne won the FA Youth Cup with Leeds United in 1997, then was released that June. A year later he was spotted by Louis Walsh at a casting for a new Irish boyband.
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Can't stop shooting film from Nha Trang, Vietnam, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · World
Jacques Brel Left the Stage at His Peak
Jacques Brel quit the stage in 1966 at the height of his fame, moved into film, and died on 9 October 1978 at the age of 49.
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Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Jazz
Yusef Lateef Played World Music Before It Had a Name
The first instrument Yusef Lateef ever bought was an alto saxophone. He was born William Emanuel Huddleston on October 9, 1920, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and b…
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STORY · Alternative
Why Did PJ Harvey Walk Away from a Working Band?
PJ Harvey left Automatic Dlamini in January 1991 to form her own trio, and within two years had released Dry and Rid of Me. The band dissolved in 1993 after opening for U2.
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Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Classical
How Camille Saint-Saëns Built a Life from a Paris Debut
Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris on 9 October 1835. At ten he played Mozart and Beethoven concertos from memory, a debut that led to the Conservatoire and a church organ post.
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Atelier Nadar. Photographe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, modified: re-encoded
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STORY · Pop
Why Did Bruce Springsteen Turn Inward on Tunnel of Love?
Bruce Springsteen's eighth studio album, Tunnel of Love, arrived on October 9, 1987. It traded stadium anthems for drum machines and songs about a marriage falling apart.
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Cover of “Tunnel of Love” by Bruce Springsteen. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Rock
Sean Lennon Finds His Own Psychedelic Voice
Sean Taro Ono Lennon arrived in New York on October 9, 1975, the same day his father John Lennon turned 35. The symmetry was impossible to ignore: the son of Jo…
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STORY · Metal
Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss Risked It All
Slayer released Seasons in the Abyss on October 9, 1990, a record that had to balance the speed of Reign in Blood with the slower mood of South of Heaven.
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Cover of “Seasons in the Abyss” by Slayer. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
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STORY · Jazz
How Bebo Valdés Lost a Dance and Found a Second Life
Bebo Valdés premiered the batanga at the Tropicana in 1952 and lost the floor to the cha-cha-cha. He spent the next six decades proving the bet was right.
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STORY · Rock
How Sister Rosetta Tharpe Built Rock and Roll
Sister Rosetta Tharpe cut four songs in a single 1938 afternoon for Decca Records. Those sides made her one of America's first commercially successful gospel performers.
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STORY · Metal
John Entwistle, the bassist who made The Who louder than anyone
John Entwistle turned the bass into a lead instrument for The Who. He stood behind the 126-decibel concert that entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1976.
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