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5Vlyk TIL that Richie Havens, after playing for almost 3 hours, made up the song "Freedom" on the spot at Woodstock. He was asked to go back on stage, after playing for almost 3 hours when the next performer had not shown up yet.
D1lJP TIL When the Billy Joel song “Only The Good Die Young” was released as a single, religious groups attempted to censor the song from radio stations, which caused the initially poor sales of the song to skyrocket.
awnyN TIL that God Bless America was written by a Russian immigrant. This Russian immigrant was Irving Berlin.