Chapter 01 — Today in music
On a day like today April 6
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1974
ABBA win Eurovision with "Waterloo" and Sweden conquers pop
Four Swedes in glittering costumes won Eurovision in Brighton with "Waterloo". What looked like a kitsch curiosity turned out to be the launch of the decade's most perfect pop machine. ABBA made Sweden a musical superpower, a dominance that extends to today's hit producers. A year earlier the same contest had rejected them.
ABBA
1937
Merle Haggard: born and died on an April 6
Merle Haggard was born in California, the ex-convict who watched Johnny Cash sing at San Quentin and decided to change his life. He founded the Bakersfield sound and wrote classics like "Mama Tried". He died exactly 79 years later, on his birthday in 2016, as if even the calendar owed him a rhyme.
Merle Haggard
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