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This section holds album stories, birthdays, and anniversaries that don't sit neatly inside the twelve genres above: cabaret, reggae, blues, country, and similar corners of recorded music that deserve the same attention as anything else on the site. There's no single shared history to point to here, and that's the point: each story stands on its own, tied to a specific artist, record, or scene rather than a genre narrative. Expect the same kind of coverage as elsewhere — people and sessions behind a record, plus vinyl reissue news — gathered from wherever the story happens to be.
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Why did Clément Marot die in exile in Turin?
Clément Marot, court poet to King Francis I, died in Turin on September 13, 1544. Two exiles tied to his Reformation sympathies led him far from the court.
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Faith Hill: How a Mississippi Rodeo Singer Ruled 90s Country
Faith Hill, born Audrey Faith Perry in Mississippi in 1967, rose from church and rodeo stages to rule 1990s country radio. Her string of number-one hits and crossover pop career followed.
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Barry White: How a Prison Radio Changed Soul Forever
Barry White's path from juvenile detention to orchestral soul began with a jailhouse radio playing Elvis Presley. That moment led to a career that defined the genre.
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The Day Thin Lizzy Found Their Roar
On September 21, 1973, Thin Lizzy released Vagabonds of the Western World, a third album that captured the band discovering exactly what it wanted to be.
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Walter Brennan: The Only Triple Supporting Actor Oscar Winner
Walter Brennan, a bank clerk turned pineapple farmer, won Best Supporting Actor three times — a record no other performer has matched in Academy history.
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Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell: Why It Defied Punk
In 1977, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, produced by Todd Rundgren with songs by Jim Steinman, defied punk's minimalism. It became one of the best-selling albums in history.
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Why Did the Stills-Young Band Only Make One Album?
The Stills–Young Band released only one album, Long May You Run, in 1976. Despite gold certification and a Billboard 200 placement, the partnership collapsed.
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Tupac Shakur: Who Sang His Words on The Rose, Vol. 2?
In 2005, Amaru Entertainment released The Rose, Vol. 2, a posthumous Tupac Shakur poetry album where the poet's words are sung by Ludacris and Bone Thugs n Harmony.
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Jim Croce: Why His Final Flight Ended an Unfinished Story
Jim Croce's final flight ended a life that had already outgrown the music business. He left behind a catalog of songs about the people he met on the road.
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Björk's Homogenic and the 29-Year-Old Iceland She Built
Björk's 1997 album Homogenic, recorded after a stalker's attack forced her to leave London. It fused electronic beats with strings and defined Iceland in musical terms.
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Why Nils Frahm's piano sounds unlike anyone else's
Nils Frahm, born 20 September 1982, turns 44 today. His Berlin studio setup reveals why his piano sound blends classical discipline with synthesizer engineering.
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Sophia Loren: From Pageants to an Oscar in Italian
A teenage girl steps onto a beauty pageant stage in postwar Naples, and the trajectory of European cinema shifts. On September 20, 1934, in Rome, Sophia Loren w…
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Diana Ross: How 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' Hit No. 1
Diana Ross reached her first solo number one on September 19, 1970. The single was 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough,' a dramatic rearrangement of an Ashford & Simpson song.
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Why Jimmy Fallon Still Lives in the Garden
Jimmy Fallon, born in Brooklyn on September 19, 1974, turned his overprotected childhood in Saugerties into a nightly invitation for the whole country.
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Trisha Yearwood: How a Georgia Banker's Daughter Conquered Country
Trisha Yearwood, born in Monticello, Georgia, in 1964, turned a Nashville internship into a double-platinum debut. Her first record rewrote what labels believed a female country artist could achieve.
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Daniel Lanois: From Tin Whistle to The Joshua Tree
Daniel Roland Lanois, the producer behind U2's The Joshua Tree, turns 75 on September 19, 2026. His career spans tin whistle, pedal steel, and ambient music.
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How Fleetwood Mac Rebuilt Themselves at Kiln House
After Peter Green left Fleetwood Mac in 1970, the remaining members retreated to a rural English house to record Kiln House. The album proved the band could survive without its founder.
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Jeremy Irons Turned 78 With 24 Actors Sharing His Rare Honor
Jeremy Irons, born in 1948 on the Isle of Wight, turns 78 in 2026. A failed veterinary exam led to a career spanning Oscar, Tony, and Emmy.
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Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar That Learned to Breathe Fire
Jimi Hendrix turned the electric guitar into something closer to weather than an instrument before dying in London on 18 September 1970 at 27.
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Lana Del Rey's Honeymoon and the Art of Disappearing
Lana Del Rey's fourth album Honeymoon, released in September 2015, marked a deliberate retreat into baroque pop. It captured her embrace of disappearing into a mood.
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Queen's Bicycle Race: What 65 Nude Models on a Greyhound Track Meant
Sixty-five professional models, completely naked, pedaling rented bicycles around a greyhound racing track. That was the scene at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium in…
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Gram Parsons: Why His Body Was Stolen After He Died
Phil Kaufman stole Gram Parsons' body after his 1973 death in Joshua Tree, fulfilling a cremation promise. It turned a country-rock tragedy into one of music's strangest postscripts.
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Frankie Avalon: Why a Trumpet Player Became a Teen Idol
Frankie Avalon, born September 18, 1939, traded the trumpet for singing and became a teen idol whose 1959 hit 'Venus' defined pre-Beatles American radio.
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How Ozzy Osbourne Made No More Tears His Last Great Stand
Ozzy Osbourne's 1991 album No More Tears became a quadruple-platinum consolidation of heavy metal. It marked the final album for his core rhythm section.
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