It was The Men They Couldn’t Hang’s Ghosts of Cable Street, for me.
And I learned who Marinus van der Lubbe was from Einstürzende Neubauten’s Feurio!
The song “High School Confidential” encouraged me to look up Anita Ekberg, Mamie Van Doren and Dagmar.
I learned that when gambling, I have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them.
Nice!
Also, thanks to Boney M:
Ra-ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
Ra-ra Rasputin
Russia’s greatest love machine
He drank it all and said, “I feel fine”
Boney M were historians. Just listen also to “Ma Baker”:
I learned that King Tut was born in Arizona and moved to Babylonia.
But was he buried with a donkey?
Some of the accomplishments of non-white people in Black Man by Stevie Wonder.
“Timothy Leary’s dead. Oh No no no he’s outside looking in,” sang the Moody Blues in 1968.
He wasn’t dead (at that time) but I was inspired to find out who he was.
Beats me how I did that without Wikipedia