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TIL about Al Bowlly,who was Britain's most popular singer for most of the 1930s. He recorded upwards of 1,000 songs that were listened to by millions in Britain. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat during The Blitz in 1941.

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