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Born 74 Years Ago Today in Alabama, the Man Who Wrote Hits for Conway Twitty and Gave Us One of the Most Iconic Piano Intros of All Time
American Songwriter marks the 74th birthday of Randy McCormick, the Alabama-born keyboardist and songwriter behind the distinctive piano introduction to Bob Seger’s 1979 hit “Old Time Rock and Roll”. The article celebrates his largely behind-the-scenes contribution to a song made iconic by the 1983 film Risky Business, highlighting how a session musician’s brief improvised part…
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Andy Burnham ‘to axe David Lammy’s plans to scrap jury trials’ when he becomes PM
The article reports that Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is said to be planning to scrap Justice Secretary David Lammy’s proposals to abolish some jury trials, should Burnham become Prime Minister. The claim positions Burnham against a key justice policy associated with Lammy, framing it as a point of division within Labour over…
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Christian family takes fight to DC embassy after government seizes daughters over ‘religious extremism’
A Christian couple, Daniel and Bianca Samson, have brought their custody dispute to Washington after Swedish authorities removed their daughters from their care, citing concerns described as “religious extremism”. Supporters gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in the US capital to rally on the family’s behalf, drawing attention to a case that campaigners frame as an…
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British Nationals Caught in Deadly Almeria Wildfires: Man Killed While Escaping; Couple Rescued With Severe Burns
British nationals have been caught up in wildfires that swept through Almeria province in Spain over the weekend, with at least one fatality reported. A British man attempting to flee the rapidly advancing flames perishe
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‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
An interview with Texas trial lawyer Mark Lanier recounts how he and his 20-year-old client, known as Kaley or KGM, secured a landmark legal victory against Meta and Google in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this year. The case, KGM v Meta et al, was the first to hold major social media firms accountable for…
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Why do free speech debates make us so angry?
This Guardian essay, written by an anthropologist, argues that the ferocity of modern free speech debates stems not from disagreements over rules and principles but from implicit judgments about people’s character. The author traces the argument back to the January 2015 al-Qaida attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed cartoonists over their…
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“There were smears of dried blood around his chin and mouth. His usually perfect clothes and hair were messed up and soaked with gasoline”: The brief life and unsolved death of the cult 60s rocker who inspired The Clash
This feature from Louder revisits the short life and mysterious death of Bobby Fuller, the 1960s rock musician best known for the hit “I Fought the Law” and later cited as an influence on The Clash. Fuller rose to prominence in El Paso, Texas, as a precociously enterprising figure before moving to Los Angeles in…
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Titus Welliver’s New Crime Thriller Is Inspired by an Infamous Real-Life Gang
Titus Welliver’s new series The Westies is inspired by a real-life Irish crime syndicate that dominated Hell’s Kitchen.
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Tragedy on Murder Wall mountain: How climbers died one-by-one on Eiger North Face including last-man-standing who muttered ‘I’m finished’ while dangling a yard from safety
This article is presented as an account of a fatal mountaineering incident on the notorious North Face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, a wall so dangerous it has been nicknamed the “Murder Wall”. According to the headline, a group of climbers died one after another during the attempt, with particular focus on the…
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The Genius of the U.S. Constitution