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When your Song of the Week editor's history teacher got bored of teaching history (a regular occurrence) he would play his pupils music instead. Often it was jazz, but sometimes a guy called Leonard Cohen. We weren't keen. This Cohen guy seemed so miserable. 

But in time the pupils got older.

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As each generation grows up, it revisits the culture of its youth. So now is the Millennials' moment as those aged c30-45 are in positions of influence and have greater spending power. So the 1990s and early 2000s are hot in film, games and music. Even 'Baywatch' is being remade.

And meanwhile Britney has sold her back catalogue for $200m. Toxic.

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One of Rachmaninov's most famous pieces, this prelude, one of a set of five, was written when he was nineteen. Rachmaninov was himself a very accomplished pianist (he had very large hands which no doubt helped). He also loved fast cars and speedboats. 

And for the classical music buffs among you, on 16 January 1910 no lesser a figure than Gustav Mahler conducted Rachmaninov playing his own third piano concerto at Carnegie Hall, New York.

Bernadine, Joanne, Fern,  Martha (later of the 'Dancing in the Street' Martha and the Vandellas fame) and Shirley were the Fascinations, probably long forgotten. But Song of the Week never forgets.

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At the same time as Kurt Gödel was publishing his completeness theorem (1929) and working on incompleteness (see Short 1 above), Louis Armstrong was working tirelessly in Chicago, refining his trumpet playing and his scat style singing and producing some of the most influential records in early jazz. This is a Fats Waller-Andy Razaf song from the Broadway revue, 'Connie’s Hot Chocolates.'

'Like Jack Horner/In the corner/Don't go nowhere'. 

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Dr Robert, leader of the Blow Monkeys, took his name from a Beatles song. The comparison with the Fab Four ends there, but this is also fab.

You may think it sounds a like a pop/soul love song, but in fact it is a critique of the socio-economic conditions in Britain at the time.

Sometimes you have to let rip.