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Back to Search7295: Leonard Cohen — How Betrayal, Bankruptcy, and Buddhism Produced Hallelujah | pplpod
Episode 7295
Leonard Cohen wrote eighty drafts of "Hallelujah" before he was satisfied, and his record label refused to release the album containing it. The song …
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7294: Led Zeppelin — How Four Musicians Hijacked the Music Industry | pplpod
Episode 7294
Led Zeppelin refused to release singles, rarely gave interviews, and let their manager Peter Grant intimidate promoters into unprecedented revenue sp…
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7291: Albrecht Durer — How a Renaissance Printmaker Went Viral Across Europe | pplpod
Episode 7291
Albrecht Durer made prints so technically brilliant that they were copied, forged, and distributed across Europe within months of their creation. He …
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7292: Gene Kelly — How One Dancer Brought Athletic Power to the Hollywood Musical | pplpod
Episode 7292
Gene Kelly danced like an athlete and choreographed like a filmmaker. He brought a muscular, grounded physicality to the Hollywood musical that made …
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7288: Erik Satie — The Eccentric Composer Who Invented Ambient Music a Century Early | pplpod
Episode 7288
Erik Satie composed music he called "furniture music" — designed to be heard but not listened to, meant to fill a room the way wallpaper fills a wall…
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7289: Gabriel Faure — The Radical French Voice That Reshaped Modern Harmony | pplpod
Episode 7289
Gabriel Faure composed music so subtle that audiences often missed how radical it was. His harmonies drifted between keys in ways that anticipated De…
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7290: Hieronymus Bosch — The Medieval Painter Whose Nightmares Still Haunt Us | pplpod
Episode 7290
Hieronymus Bosch painted monsters, demons, and torments so vivid and so strange that art historians have spent five centuries trying to figure out wh…
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7285: Bruce Springsteen — The Boss and the Myth of the American Working Class | pplpod
Episode 7285
Bruce Springsteen grew up in a dying factory town in New Jersey, watched his father move between dead-end jobs, and turned that anger and despair int…
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7287: Eric Clapton — Beyond the Guitar God Myth to the Man Underneath | pplpod
Episode 7287
Eric Clapton was called God on the walls of London before he turned twenty-five. Graffiti reading "Clapton is God" appeared across the city, and he s…
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7286: Donatello — The Sculptor Who Gave Stone a Psychology | pplpod
Episode 7286
Donatello carved the first freestanding nude sculpture since antiquity and gave Renaissance Florence figures so psychologically alive that contempora…
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