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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | US Immigration vs. Charlie Chaplin by The Ovi Team September 19th 1952; The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services. | | | Rock legend Hendrix dies after party by The Ovi Team September 18th 1970; Guitarist Jimi Hendrix has died after collapsing at a party in London. Police say there was no question of foul play. A number of sleeping pills were found at the house in Notting Hill Gate... | | | The Who & the BBC explosion by The Ovi Team September 17th 1967. In introducing them at the Monterey Pop Festival three months earlier, Eric Burdon of the Animals had offered high praise for the up-and-coming British rock band the Who... | |
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| | Robert McCloskey by The Ovi Team September 14th; on this day in 1914, children's author and illustrator Robert McCloskey, whose books include such classics as "Make Way for Ducklings" and "Blueberries for Sal," is born in Hamilton, Ohio. | | | Roald Dahl by The Ovi Team September 13th 1916, Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and James and the Giant Peach (1961), is born in South Wales. | | | Flowering Judas by The Ovi Team Katherine Anne Porter's first collection of short stories, Flowering Judas, is published September 11th 1930. The title story, which appeared earlier that year in Hound and Horn magazine... | | | Smells Like Teen Spirit by The Ovi Team September 10th 1991, You either had to be part of a fairly small subculture of music fans or a professional on the business side of the music industry to have heard of Nirvana before the autumn of 1991. | | | Luciano Pavarotti by The Ovi Team Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 - September 6, 2007) was an Italian tenor and one of the most popular contemporary vocal performers in the world of opera and across multiple musical genres. | | | Candle in the Wind by The Ovi Team September 6th 1997. "The people's princess" was the label Great Britain's newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair chose to use in describing the late Princess Diana in his first public statement following her death. | | | On the Road by The Ovi Team September 5th 1957; one of the first novels of the Beat movement of the 1950s, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, is published on this day in 1957. The novel chronicles the cross-country wanderings of a Kerouac-like hero... | | prev | | next | |
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