This Day in Music History

11 Aug 1956

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Background

Elvis Presley’s double-sided hit ‘Don’t Be Cruel / Hound Dog was released. The single went to No.1 on the US chart, where it stayed for 11 weeks – a record that would not be broken until 1992’s Boyz II Men hit ‘End of the Road’.

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10 Aug 1912

Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry On August 10, 1912, Virginia Stephen, 30, marries Leonard Woolf, 31, at a registry office in London. Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, grew up surrounded by intellectuals. Her father was a writer and philosopher, and her mother was a British aristocrat. The family developed close friendships with other intellectuals and writers. Their circle of friends came to be called the Bloomsbury group, a leisured set […]

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