成人快手

The Monkees

The Monkees were the world's first 'manufactured' boy band - created especially for TV.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

How the Pakistani Qawali singer became an international music sensation..

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Willie Nelson's Farm Aid

Country music legend Willie Nelson holds the first benefit concert for American farmers

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Miriam Makeba

The story of the great South African singer who spent 30 years in exile

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Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

In 1978, Iran's top musicians took a stand against the Monarchy

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The First Glastonbury Festival

We hear from farmer Michael Eavis, who began the music festival in 1970

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The Leningrad Symphony

In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony

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The Origins of Ska Music

Jamaica is best known for Reggae music, but before Reggae, came Ska.

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DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of Hip Hop

In the autumn of 1973 a Bronx DJ held a ground-breaking party.

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Jacques Brel

In 1966 the singer-songwriter announced on stage that he was going to stop performing

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The Plastic People of the Universe

The psychedelic Czech rock band which became a symbol of resistance to communist rule.

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Kabul Musicians' Quarter

The home of Afghanistan's traditional musicians was destroyed in 1992.

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The Birth of Karaoke

Daisuke Inoue was playing in a band in Kobe Japan when he invented the Karaoke machine

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Buena Vista Social Club

Barbarito Torres speaks about playing on the ground-breaking album of Cuban music

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Danish Cartoons

In 2005 a Danish newspaper published 12 images of the Prophet Muhammad

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The Death of Rock Hudson

Angie Dickinson remembers the Hollywood star who died after contracting Aids

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Barbary Pirates and the White Slave Trade

The story of an English boy captured by pirates and enslaved in North Africa in 1716

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Austrian Wine Scandal

In 1985 government scientists discovered anti-freeze in bottles of Austrian wine.

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The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

President Anwar Sadat of Egypt's widow, Jehan, remembers the day he was assassinated

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Pakistan Earthquake 2005

On 8 October 2005 a massive earthquake hit Pakistani-administered Kashmir

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The Moors Murders

In 1965, Britain was shocked by a series of child murders in Manchester

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The Death of Edith Cavell

On 12 October 1915 a British nurse was executed by German troops during World War One

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The White Russians in Shanghai

A Russian refugee remembers life in Shanghai after fleeing the 1917 revolution

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Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust

Almost all of Denmark's Jewish population escaped the Nazis during World War Two

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Satyajit Ray: Working with India鈥檚 Cinematic Master

Sixty years ago the acclaimed director released his awarding winning first film

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The October Crisis in Canada

When Quebec separatists started to use violence - Canada's government called out the army

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Mass Graves in Hue, Vietnam

US troops discovered victims of the Communist Tet offensive in Hue city in 1968

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The Controversial 'God of Vengeance'

How the cast of an early 20th century Yiddish play found themselves in court in New York.

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The Disappearing Sea

In 1990, the first international conference was held on the shrinking of the Aral Sea

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Sri Lanka Killings

In 1995 during Sri Lanka's brutal civil war Tamil rebels attacked a Sinhalese village.

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