25 Musicians With Their Own Museums
By Meagan Drillinger, Stacker News
On 7/16/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Musicians are immortalized through their songs and lyrics, which live on forever over the airwaves and on our playlists. But some musicians are so much more than recording artists they are historic legends.
And where do legends of history belong? In museums, of course. Stacker researched music museums around the world and chose 25 artists who have at least one museum dedicated to them and their music.
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Countless musicians across the world and across time have changed sound and culture forever, ushering in new trends, movements, and styles of music. From Bob Marley to ABBA, Scott Joplin to The Beatles, it s no surprise which musicians have museums dedicated to their memory and contribution to the world.
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This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 19
1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.
1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes horse race.
1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1912 – The U.S. government establishes the 8-hour workday.
1934 – Congress establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.
In September 1955 Richard Wayne Penniman walked into a New Orleans recording studio and transformed popular music with a kinetic blast of pure gibberish: “A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop-bam-boom!”
Charles “Dr Rock” White, a longtime personal friend of the performer better known as Little Richard, remembers witnessing his explosive breakthrough hit, ‘Tutti Frutti’, performed live shortly before their first meeting, at the Granada theatre in Mansfield in 1962. “It was such an amazing experience,” says White, who in 1985 wrote the pop icon’s authorised biography,
The Life and Times of Little Richard.
Now in his late 70s, White occasionally struggles to remember details, but his recollection of that night in a Nottinghamshire market town 58 years ago is vivid. “The spotlight fell on the piano and suddenly Little Richard came running down the aisle all dressed in white,” he says. “He leapt into the orchestra pit, then on to the stage, and he started hitting the pia