It’s rare for legends to receive full honors while they’re still alive. Yet, it surprises few music aficionados to hear Blink-182 called a revolutionary pop-punk band. They helped develop the rock genre into what it is today thanks to the music they made in the ’90s and 2000s. Many bands credit Blink-182 for influencing their songwriting and producing.
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BooksObituaryJerzy FicowskiJerzy Ficowski, who has died aged 81, was Poland's prominent but unorthodox poet "from the borderlands", a fervent Christian who celebrated Polish Roma culture and memorialised in verse the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He was respected for his lifelong contribution to the struggle to free his homeland, first as a youngster during the Nazi occupation, then as a patron of, and participant in, the human rights campaign against communist rule. Read More...