At just 17 years old, Ella Fitzgerald won first place singing at an amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, which included a weeklong engagement — a huge opportunity that the legendary venue never gave her.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attempted to book The Who’s drummer Keith Moon for the 2012 Summer Olympics — evidently unaware he had been dead for 34 years.

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