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Date: 15/04/14

Out Of Tune

And the award for Most Beguilingly Misleading Headline Of The Week goes to this one, from the US political newsletter Counterpunch:

Glenn Miller Claims He Was An FBI Informer

I thought that they'd finally tracked the bandleader down. Perhaps, after his mysterious disappearance in that aircraft in 1944, he'd been holed up in Paraguay or somewhere.

Turned out that he shares his name with the latest in the long series of American neo-Nazis to run amok with a gun.

File under: Just Plain Odd, Music, The U.S. of A.