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Nashville’s renowned Parthenon Museum is bidding farewell to one of its prized collections: This month over 250 Mexican artifacts — including ancient tools, instruments and clay sculptures dating back more than 500 years — are being returned to Mexico City, where they will eventually be put on display.

The prized artifacts have been at the Parthenon since the late 1960s, when an Oregon doctor donated them for tax deduction purposes. Farmers in western Mexico had sold them for cheap, thinking they were junk found on their farms.

Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was an #singer, #songwriter, and actress best known for her 1982 platinum-certified hit “Gloria” and for the top-5 single “Self Control”. Branigan is also remembered for the top-10 song “Solitaire”, and for the No. 1 Adult Contemporary (AC) hit “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You”, as well as several other U.S. top-40 songs. Branigan also contributed songs to notable motion picture and television soundtracks, including the Grammy and Academy Award-winningFlashdance soundtrack (1983), the Ghostbusters soundtrack (1984), and the Baywatch soundtrack (1994). Her signature song “Gloria” by Umberto Tozzi stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, at the time a record for a female artist; the song holds a place in the top-100 singles of both 1982 and 1983. Branigan died at her home in 2004 from a previously undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm.

Hear 'n Aid was a charity record recorded in May 20 - 21 1985 by a large ensemble of 40 heavy metal musicians and released in May 26, 1986. The project was organized by Ronnie James Dio, Jimmy Bain, and Vivian Campbell, all from the band Dio. Proceeds from the album were used to raise money for famine relief in Africa.[1]

Robert Trujillo began playing #electric #bass for #heavy #metal #band Metallica on February 24, 2003. The rest of the band consists of James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Lars Ulrich. He had previously met and befriended his future bandmates when Suicidal Tendencies supported Metallica during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour in 1993, and again during the Shit Hits the Sheds tour one year later. Trujillo received one million dollars from the band as an advance for joining Metallica. His audition and hiring as well as his million dollar payment offer appear in the documentary film Some Kind of Monster. As the current bassist for Metallica, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside all current members of the band, as well as Jason Newsted(who left the band in 2001) and the late Cliff Burton, of whom Jason Newsted was the replacement, in the 1980s.