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Lydon was the erudite, if occasionally smarmy, host of the radio show The Connection, which broadcast on Boston’s WBUR

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Click here for a 1993 LA Times article about the opening of the SST Superstore, a record store that only sold product from, surprisingly, SST Records and its associated labels

Though the actual store is defunct, the label has kept the name alive by transferring it to their online store

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Frances Farmer was institutionalized at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom, Washington, against her will. While there, she was subject to horrific abuse, electro-shock therapy, and an alleged lobotomy.

The Puget Sound is a region in the State of Washington and part of the Salish Sea. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic are both from Washington state.

Additionally, these lines may contain a subtle nod to Mount Rainier, an active volcano visible from downtown Seattle. It has a high probability for future eruptions, including many areas of Greater Seattle in its potential path of destruction. With the Mt. St. Helens eruption happening only 13 years prior, it was still a significant occurrence fresh in people’s minds—an event which covered the entire region in ash for weeks.

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It’s rather unlikely that the Druids built Stonehenge, but it dates back to about 3100 BC

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Not exactly. The original location of the Birdland jazz club was 1678 Broadway, between 52nd and 53rd

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The “Oxford Town” here is Oxford, MS, home of the University of Mississippi. This song was inspired by James Meredith’s attempt in 1962 to integrate the school

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Le Crazy Horse de Paris is, quoth Wiki, “a Parisian cabaret known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers and for the diverse range of magic and variety ‘turns’ between each nude show and the next”

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That would be the entertainment complex that housed the Montreux Casino.

In December 1971, Deep Purple moved to Montreux, Switzerland to record their sixth studio album Machine Head, using the notable Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, hence the “records with a mobile”.

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Unlike Hazy Davy, Killer Joe, and the rest of Springsteen’s colorful characters, The Chicken Man was a real person. Gangster Philip Testa’s house really was blown up in Philly in March, 1981. He was called The Chicken Man because of scars from chicken pox

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The “seven towers” here belong to the Dublin housing project Ballymun Flats. Bono grew up in an adjacent neighborhood.

Heroin has a bitter taste. It’s often tasted before injection to test contents. This is immediately before the narrator takes the “one way out.”

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