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1994 Jazz legend Louis Armstrong scored a No.1 hit on the US singles chart with ‘Hello Dolly’, the title song from the Tony Award-winning 1964 musical, to become the oldest artist ever to hit the top of the charts at the age of 62. However, in 2011, 85 year-old Tony Bennett broke this record when his ‘Duets’ album topped the US album charts. Louis Armstrong Image Credit: AP Armstrong was one of the most influential solo artists and an innovator of the trumpet. In 1968 he recorded the timeless classic ‘What A Wonderful World,’ a song that he is most associat...

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1976 Controversial British singer David Bowie was questioned and detained by customs officers on a train at the Russian/Polish border after books and mementoes on Nazis were found in his luggage. Bowie, who was once seen performing a Nazi salute at London’s Victoria Station, claimed that the material was being used as research for a movie project about Joseph Paul Goebbels, the German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was released without charge. Interestingly during the 70s, the singer was reportedly obsessed with Hitler and the Third Re...