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One of the strangest eBay auctions of the year will end tonight, with the seller in a jail cell. Of course, anyone following the life of Martin Shkreli, popularly nicknamed “Pharma Bro,” may not be all that surprised by the situation. Enlarge Image Shkreli’s listing as of Friday afternoon. eBay, Martin Shkreli Shkreli, a pharmaceuticals entrepreneur who rose to infamy …

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When the Rolling Stones tried to outdo the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’

The Rolling Stones’ “Their Satanic Majesties Request” album is an outlier in the band’s canon. The music was a clean break from the Stones’ trademark blues-based hard rock, so it wasn’t well received by fans and critics when “Satanic” was released in early December, 1967. It followed the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by five months, and where …

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