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Besides the freakish improbability that two of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century should have not only come from England (a country with a virtually nonexistent profile in popular music at the time) but would have come from - and met! - in Liverpool, of all places, the most extraordinary thing about the Beatles phenomenon is the unsurpassed ratio of good songs in their recorded output. OK, we wouldn't be talking about them at all if "Misery" had been their best bid for stardom. And of course, off-the-wall items such as "Wild Honey Pie" only make sense...
...important to remember that at the start of the 20th century, we began with the same hopes but then plunged into the bloodiest wars in history," he said...
This prelude exemplifies Flehinger's argument throughout the class that major public and political events of the 20th century had a vast...
Raising Boston subway fares has always been an emotional affair. In 1948, a fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...