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The song's mention of "Leonard Skinner", a boy at the camp who "got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner", was an inspiration for the name of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, although the band's name was also inspired by a physical education instructor of the same name.
While Eggum, Sivertsen and Sunde continued to perform together, they refused to use the name "Gitarkameratene" without Nilsen on-stage with them. Nilsen died on 27 January 2024, aged 71, after a ten-year battle with lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). At his funeral on 9 February, the remaining three members performed ...
Guthrie felt that it was wrong to render food inedible by poisoning it in a world where hungry people lived. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" has been described by journalist Joe Klein as "the last great song he [Guthrie] would write, a memorial to the nameless migrants 'all scattered like dry leaves' in Los Gatos Canyon". [1]
There are so many songs about food, even more than you may have thought! Some are hits, such as American Pie by Don McLean and Coconut by Harry Nilsson.
Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning, caused by a fundamental flaw in understanding how it worked. While the medical establishment ditched ptomaine theory by the 1930s, it remained in the public consciousness until the late 1960s and ...
[a] After the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), he came to Greece as a refugee and settled in Piraeus. He worked initially as a tailor for some years, before opening an ouzeri. He and his wife died in 1942 of food poisoning during the famine caused by the Nazi-Fascist occupation during WWII. Much of the information on his life comes from ...
Take a trip down memory lane as you try to identify these iconic '60s songs based on snippets of their lyrics. From rock legends like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles to folk icons like Bob Dylan ...
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