For music lovers, some melodies may seem priceless. But if you ever wondered what music is really worth — like the original manuscript to Maurice Ravel's Bolero? That score and about 200 more, which reside at New York's Morgan Library, are on sale for $135 million. They are part of the esteemed Lehman Collection — a group of nearly 200 scores that reads like a greatest hits of classical music. Christoph Wolff, a professor of music history at Harvard, calls it "the trophy collection."

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Did you know the Congo national anthem asks: “And if we have to die/ Does it really matter?” Here are more facts about national anthems.

Source: The Telegraph

Philip Sheppard has just recorded every known national anthem for use at the Olympic Games.

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They work in the shadows, knocking out tunes to order – sometimes in a matter of hours. The songwriters who work for Jay-Z, Adele, Florence and more tell Alexis Petridis how they do it – and why times are getting tough.

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All roads lead to Mt Zion on May 14th where Rastafarians will converge and in reverential tones to commemorate the life of reggae whiz Bob Marley, the Jamaican singer-songwriter who passed away 30 years ago from complications of malignant melanoma (cancer) of the big toe.

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This is not the rags-to-riches story the mainstream media craves, and it may never be.  So far, after a week-long frenzy and 35 million YouTube views, Rebecca Black's "Friday" has stirred just $45,850 according to our estimates, far less than the gargantuan numbers reported in places like Forbes. That number will increase, and may push past $100,000 soon enough.    

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The song We Are The World which moved the world into giving to save Ethiopia's starving masses, was recently digitally enhanced and re-released as the lead track with 10 new songs from world artistes to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the historic recording.

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