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The Point of Divergence ... Madonna is today considered the Queen of Pop Music. Most artists today site her as a great influence on their style and their music. Really, its almost impossible to imagine the pop music scene without her influence. The big turning point in her life was in 1978...

I've been thinking about how music notation could develop in an alternate world. I'm really interested in evolving something from Ancient Persia, particularly the Achaemenid Empire. So, my questions for you are: How would a talented singer/songwriter in an alternate world write their music...

28th August 2017 She was waiting to go on stage, the whole high-cultural world at her feet. With a sly grin on her face she glanced at the Daily Telegraph's birthdays column, a sure sign that she had Made It: "Miss Florence Welch, ballerina, 31". All young women were still addressed as such...

Yes, yes, another Pink Floyd-related timeline by me. This one I want to get more experimental (And I might butterfly a little bit here). So, it is (very) based on this idea of flippikat of a Kevin Ayers/Syd Barrett/Richard Wright band, but adding Robert Wyatt and David Bowie (forming a band ca...

I had this image the other day of 1950s James Dean-esque street toughs headbanging to death metal. Would it have been possible to have a type of music like that in the '50s? And how much of a fan base would it have? I imagine the guys who kept packs of cigarettes rolled up in their sleeve would...

Introduction It still makes for a fascinating read. 32 years later, and the story remains an inspiration to those who thought about packing it in, dissolving a partnership that had inspired so many for so many years. It taught us the meaning of “grin and bear it,” and that to soldier on may be...

Hi, do any of you think that it would be possible if John, Paul, George and Ringo decided to add a fifth member in 1969? To make the live performences better (Becuase they would probably tour in 1969-1970) and make the studio a more comfortable place, the infamous Get Back sessions got a bit...

Prelude Exodus Recovery Center: March 31st, 1994 An audible sigh erupted from the mouth of the exhausted employee. A nurse practitioner at the rehab facility for over a few months now, she had still not adjusted to the long hours and surprisingly heavy work load the job had laid upon her...

If you read my profile, you'll see that I am addicted to Pink Floyd, am I right? ABSOLUTELY YES!!! (Inspired on my old Pink Floyd/Syd Barrett alternate history on Wikia, An Alternate Pink Floyd. I don't like that much.) Syd Barrett. Hello, and this is a Syd Barrett timeline that I'll take...

“In yellow shoes I get the blues...” Syd was singing to himself, tunelessly stamping out the lyrics, loudly, to anybody who might be in earshot in the apartment. Currently, that was nobody, save for the massive heaps of cigarette butts - his most recent girlfriend had broken up with him, and he...

It's not uncommon for music to have a ideological them/current, sometimes even to the point of creating its own subculture; Skinheads would be one of the most obvious examples of this. However, despite the political nature music can take, despite the connections some genres have to certain...

Hello and welcome to Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It! The 90's TL where anything about the 90's is up for grabs, whether it be pop culture, politics, sports, or fads. Let's begin! January 1990 In Sports - Crimson Tide wins the Sugar Bowl January 1st - Life is just a bowl of sugar for the Alabama...

First alternate history timeline... Introduction The timeline explores the idea of what would happen to Pink Floyd, if Roger Waters depart of the band after the Animals (In The Flesh) tour. The fighting between the members (especially between Roger Waters and Richard Wright), problems in the...

This show is on BBC Radio 2 tonight, and sound very interesting, so I thought I'd start a thread so we can discuss it. It will be on iPlayer if anyone misses it at 10pm. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rfqk3

A Pop Culture Timeline _________________ I've been in this town so long that back in the city I've been taken for lost and gone An unknown for a long long time Fell in love years ago With an innocent girl From the Spanish and Indian home Home of the heroes and villains Once at night Catillion...

Shoegazing is a derivate genre of rock music whose distinct characteristics are: -echoey, word-stretching vocals -distorted guitars with long riffs and feedback, which combine with the vocals to create a "mixed, melty" sound. The term was coined by british music critics to ridicule the bands...

Well i Did Participated on an Open Collaborative Sports TL from Scratch, Let's Start my own so it will be based on the 75 Days of the NAFL but it will last longer past 1950, so the POD will start on March 1, 1950 March 1950 (POD): Commissioner Bert Bell announced in Philadelphia that upon...

In OTL, when the British working class of the Victorian era developed, many former folk songs, and naval sea shanties developed into work songs and tavern songs fit for the conditions and rhythm of urban life centered around small tenements, strenous factory work, inequality, the pleasures of...

Keep the disco movement from happening and saturating the 70's with synth beats using any means possible as long as it only changes the music industry (No "America loses WWII.") Also, bonus points if your PoD is after 1970. How I would go about it is have AIDS/HIV become a larger problem...

Was thinking the other day about the Daily Telegraph's turn-of-the-millennium "mad" period, when it seemed to see the whole of popular mass culture as representing a conspiracy against it and the interests it represented it, before the Golden Jubilee & Will Young & Keane & James Blunt et al...