The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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Michael Jackson used a special shoe to perform his "Smooth Criminal" lean trick.
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Macklemore and his hit “Thrift Shop” was the first time since 1994 that a song reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label.
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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Donald Glover got his rapper name ‘Childish Gambino’ from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator.
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Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and thought that she “sounded like a goat”.
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Most people turn their music down in the car when finding a street sign to "see better".
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In 2007, Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and went mostly ignored. Just two days earlier, he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth 3.5 million dollars.
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