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Remarks: This is the first Chaka Khan song I can remember hearing.

Remarks: I woke up yesterday and this song was ringing in my head, out of the blue.

Remarks: This was a hit song throughout the Anglosphere in 1990, especially in dance clubs.

Remarks: What an earworm!

Remarks: Wow.

Remarks: This is my favourite Olivia Rodrigo song – so far.

Remarks: The year 1976 not only gave us “Muskrat Love” and the best song ever, but “Disco Duck” too!

Benjamin Netanyahu (1949- ), aka בִּנְיָמִין “בִּיבִּי” נְתַנְיָהוּ, aka Bibi, has been prime minister of Israel off and on for about 19 of the past 30 years: 1996 to 1999 2009 to 2021 2022 to present (2026) He faces voters on October 27th 2026 for the fi…

The Economist wrote this in 2014: “Japan has about 500,000 non-naturalised Koreans, some of whom have come in the past couple of decades but many of whose families were part of a diaspora that arrived during Japan’s imperial era in the first half of the 2…

Remarks: This came out in the summer of 1963.

Remarks: Fifty years ago today, shortly after the Bicentennial, this was the number one song on the US pop chart, from July 10th to 23rd 1976.

Some songs I have posted about the US: 1939: Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit 1964: Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come 1965: Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction 1968: Dion: Abraham, Martin and John 1969: Jimi Hendrix: The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock. 1977:

James Earl Jones reads the most famous part of Frederick Douglass’s speech given on July 5th 1852.

Remarks: This came out in 1976 reaching #3 on the US R&B chart and the top-40 on pop charts throughout the Anglosphere.

Remarks: Aged British rocker Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Palestinian singer Mona Miari reimagine “Comfortably Numb” from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” (1979).