Princess Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997 was a bolt from the blue. People across the world were shocked, and few more so than Sir Elton John, a close friend of the departed royal’s. He wanted to pay a personal tribute to her in the form of a song called Candle in the Wind, which he’d originally sang in 1973 as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. John rewrote some of the words keeping Diana in mind and performed it at her funeral. The version became the highest-selling single ever in the UK, and the second-highest worldwide.

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Other countries can take a leaf out of South Korea’s books when it comes to peddling soft power. The government there has been steadily pushing films, TV shows and music since the 1990s to spread its influence around the world. The effort eventually came to spectacular fruition with Gangnam Style, pop star Psy’s monster hit from 2013. This writer remembers hearing it for the first time in Edinburgh in a room that was filled with a cosmopolitan mix of Indian, French, Icelandic and Scottish people, all of whom were familiar with the track. An example of how far its popularity had spread.

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All these seminal moments have had a direct impact on the music industry, and Vinyl is a web show that reveals the world behind it. Its creators include Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese. The soundtrack has punk music that can fit into a vandalism scene.

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