The Idiot is the debut studio album of American musician Iggy Pop,
released on March 18, 1977, by RCA Records. In 1976 Pop accompanied his
friend David Bowie to Europe to rid themselves of their drug addictions.
There Bowie agreed to produce an album for Pop. Recording began in June
1976 and further sessions took place at Musicland Studios in Munich in
August. Bowie composed most of the music and contributed a major portion
of the instrumentation, while Pop wrote most of the lyrics. The album's
title was taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, while
Erich Heckel's painting Roquairol inspired its artwork. When released
the album received divided, albeit largely positive, reviews. It charted
in the US, the UK, and Australia. Pop supported The Idiot with a tour in
1977, with Bowie as his keyboardist. The Idiot has continued to be
received positively, with many noting Pop's artistic evolution. It has
influenced post-punk, industrial, and gothic acts, including Joy
Division. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot_%28album%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1868:
Red Cloud, a leader of the Oglala Lakota Native American tribe,
signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending Red Cloud's War and
establishing the Great Sioux Reservation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_%281868%29>
1939:
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual
elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of
the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_Krakau>
1977:
The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed;
the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in
damages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Barnes_Dam>
2016:
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces launched the
Raqqa campaign, a successful military operation with the goal of
isolating and eventually capturing the Islamic State's capital city,
Raqqa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa_campaign_%282016%E2%80%932017%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Hansard:
1. (historical, also attributively) A member of a Hanse (“merchant
guild”), or a resident of a Hanse town. […]
2. (chiefly Britain, Commonwealth of Nations) The official report of
debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth
parliaments.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hansard>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And
that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to
treat great men as lunatics.
--Cesare Lombroso
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso>
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