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Fact #83382

When:

04061962

Short story:

Music business entrepreneur Chris Blackwell's newly formed Island Records releases its first single, Twist Baby by Owen Gray. (1962)

Full article:

Chris Blackwell : I'm distantly related to Crosse And Blackwell, in that my father was the son of one of the ten or more children of the younger brother of the person, who started the company. Very little trickled down to him, and zero trickled down to me. I had an allowance of