What do the following authors have in common: J.D. Salinger, Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde? They are famous for writing just one novel.

J.D. Salinger? The Catcher in the Rye. Emily Brontë? Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde? The Picture of Dorian Gray. Home runs. Classics. Enduring favourites. Lasting fame. Millions of copies sold around the planet. But in each case, there were no follow-ups. They were all one and done.

J.D. Salinger became a recluse. Emily Brontë died shortly after the publication of Wuthering Heights. And Oscar Wilde stayed with writing plays. As novelists go, they are all one-hit wonders.

When it comes to music, one-hit wonders are an endless source of amusement. How can someone become internationally famous for decades when they only have one song that anyone cares about?

These are special cases where lightning is captured exactly once. And no matter how many more songs these artists wrote, they would never, ever achieve that extreme level of fame again. A single song overshadows every other effort.

Let’s apply this to the history of alt-rock. What songs and artists qualify?

It took a bunch of research, but I think I managed to crack it using a combination of statistics. And we’re now up to episode four of five in this mission: the 50 all-time biggest alt-rock one-hit wonders.

Songs heard on this show:

• Doctor and the Medics, Spirit in the Sky
• Enigma, Sadeness (Part 1)
• Edwyn Collins, A Girl Like You
• Peter Schilling, Major Tom (Coming Home)
• White Town, Your Woman
• Meredith Brooks, Bitch
• Marcy Playground, Sex and Candy
• The Caesars, Jerk It Out
• Chumbawamba, Tubthumping
• The La’s, There She Goes

Here’s Eric Wilhite’s playlist.

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Have you ever noticed that Dave Grohl always seems to be chewing gum? On stage, in interviews, during his time with Nirvana and especially now with the Foo Fighters, Dave always seems to be chomping away. As it turns out, there’s a quasi-medical reasoning to Grohl’s gum appreciation.

He says it keeps his mouth and throat lubricated, which makes shouting and singing much easier. And the flavour of choice? Dentyne Ice, to keep Grohl’s microphone minty-fresh.

But the habit has its drawbacks, too. At a Foo Fighters gig in 1997, Dave’s screaming sent sweet saliva flying all over his equipment. The microphone kept working just fine, but it had made a new friend. A hungry honeybee was drawn in by the sugary spittle and attacked Dave every time he leaned in to sing.

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Unexpectedly seeing your favourite band in a movie can sometimes eclipse the flick itself. These are some of the cameos that brought rock to the silver screen.

Want to see Josh Homme playing hair metal in a giant afro? The Queens of the Stone Age frontman appeared in the comedy Hot Rod in 2007, doing just that.

Jack White also made a comedy cameo in 2007 – he played a karate-chopping Elvis Presley in Walk Hard.

For horror comedy fans, The Offspring singer Dexter Holland has his head comically torn apart as the band performs in 1999’s Idle Hands.

And finally, Blink 182 appeared in the original American Pie, also in ’99, when they were at their height with the Enema of the State album. They didn’t do much more than ogle at a computer screen, but they fit the movie well. But Travis Barker probably wasn’t happy with the appearance. He was accidentally credited as Scott Raynor, Blink’s previous drummer.

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Kate Bush had a tremendous run of success extending from the late 70s through the early 90s. Then she disappeared for 12 years before releasing another album. After that record, she moved to a five-bedroom house worth £2 million in Devon, right on the English coast.

Unfortunately, because it was so close to the water, its foundations were unstable, and it risked falling into the sea unless hundreds of thousands were spent on repairs and renovations. She was warned about this by the local council, but never did anything about it. She was living in another house and rarely spent time in Devon, so she ignored the problem.

In fact, as far as we can tell, the house is still there with no one living in it, and will still possibly crumble into the ocean.

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It’s the late ’60s. You’re with your wife, and you’re on a bit of a holiday. You’ve booked a room in a nice hotel, looking for some peace and quiet. After a pleasant day, you’ve turned in for the night.

Suddenly, there’s a banging on the wall. It gets louder and louder and louder. Finally, it breaks, and out of the dust you see an axe chopping away. There’s a pause, and after the dust settles, you see someone peering at you from the next room.

“’Scuse me,” says the face. “I understand that you have a mini-bar in your room. May I have a rummage in it? I find myself in need of more alcohol.”

First of all, there’s no mini-bar in your room. And second, who is this madman who insisted on coming through the wall instead of politely knocking on your door? Or better yet, why didn’t he just call room service?

But there is no reasoning with this loon, because you have just been introduced to Keith Moon, the drummer for The Who. He was just at the beginning of building a reputation as the craziest man in the history of rock.

Keith would spend the next ten years building on this reputation, which would see more incidents like this—and worse. In fact, before it was all over, he would be responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, injuries to himself and his bandmates, and at least one death.

This is episode 62 of Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. And this is the life and crazy times of Keith Moon.

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The first computer-generated music happened in 1951 at the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory using scientist Alan Turing’s Mark II machine, which filled pretty much the entire ground floor of the building. It had been programmed to play three simple melodies, which were then recorded by a BBC broadcast unit outside. Only a single 12-inch acetate survives today, but of course, it was digitized long ago. However, it’s not an accurate recording.

The BBC cutting turntable was running too fast during the recording, capturing frequencies impossible for the Mark II to create. For decades, we heard things all wrong. Everything was at a different pitch. It took until just recently for the issue to be discovered. The recording has been cleaned up and corrected for pitch, giving us an exact representation of the first music ever made by a computer.

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“Pretty scary.”

That’s how Ahmar Khan, a student at Mount Royal University, described the scene Monday afternoon when Calgary police issued a “shelter in place” order after receiving reports of a man with a weapon spotted on campus.

“All of a sudden you’ve got cops coming in and we don’t know who the suspect is — you never see this on campus here — these big guns, they’re walking in, they didn’t tell us nothing,” said Khan.

Calgary police issued the shelter-in-place order around 2:45 p.m. Monday after officers were called out to the university and interviewed witnesses who reported seeing the man carrying a large knife.

Kyla Isidro, an MRU student, said she was in the Arts Building on campus when she got an email from the university.

“(It) described the person as a male and the details of what this person was wearing. It was a bit unclear about what happened but when we went out of the hallway the Calgary Police Service was there.”

“It didn’t specify whether there was a weapon with the person, it just gave us a brief description of what the person was wearing,” said Isidro.

Police lifted the shelter in place order just over two hours later after officers — who were in the process of clearing the scene — received information that identified the person as a staff member who was working as a chef for the university.

Police said one person was taken into custody and charges may be laid.

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A Canadian was killed in southern Lebanon amid the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday, as community members separately identified the victim as a Windsor, Ont., man killed in an airstrike.

Hassan Haider was killed in what vigil organizers say was a strike by Israeli forces. They said he is the first Canadian killed since the recent invasion of Lebanon.

In a statement, Anand said, “On behalf of the Government of Canada, I extend my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones as well as the broader community,” Anand’s statement said.

“Global Affairs Canada officials are in touch with his family to offer consular assistance as needed.”

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“Canada firmly supports the Lebanese government’s efforts to restore and exercise full state authority,” she continued, “including through the disarmament of Hezbollah.

“We call on Israel to cease its attacks and encourage Israel and Lebanon to reach a durable, diplomatic solution.”

Community organizers say Haider is survived by his wife and five children, including a one-year-old.

In a separate statement, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said it was “devastated” by Haider’s killing.

“He was an innocent civilian, a loving father, and a noted member of his community,” the NCCM said.

The organization said the family and the group are calling on Canada to impose targeted sanctions on the Israeli government, investigate and prosecute Israeli soldiers in Canada for alleged war crimes, and push the RCMP to release a report on Israeli soldiers in Canada.

A vigil for Haider was held Monday in Windsor.

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Closing arguments have begun in a lawsuit over Medically Assisted Dying (MAID) that could have a far- reaching impact.

B.C.’s Supreme Court is hearing the case focusing on 34-year-old Sam O’Neill, who had stage four cervical cancer and had chosen MAID to end her life.

O’Neill had to be transferred from St. Paul’s Hospital to St. John’s Hospice to receive MAID in April 2023 because St. Paul’s Hospital — a Catholic facility — does not provide MAID, subjecting her to a painful 25-minute transfer to another facility.

The court is being asked to decide if publicly-funded, faith-based hospitals should be allowed to opt out of MAID.

“Like most of us, Sam had no way of knowing that when taken by ambulance to St. Paul’s, where she would spend her final days, St.Paul’s would impose the Archbishop’s beliefs, which impeded her access to MAID,” Gayle O’Neill, Sam’s mother, said outside court on Monday.

“It stripped Sam of her dignity and caused … unnecessary pain and suffering. The act of a non-medically necessary transfer breaks their legal duty to prevent harm. It’s just cruel.”

Daphne Gilbert with Dying with Dignity Canada said they hope Chief Justice Skolrood’s decision will bring an end to the transfer that Sam had to endure.

“This trial and the decision could have sweeping implications for end-of-life care not only here in British Columbia, but across the country,” she said.

During Monday’s closing arguments, a lawyer for the plaintiff told the court if there are competing rights that need to be balanced in the public health care system, the rights of patients must prevail.

Closing arguments are expected to continue all week.

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The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home in San Francisco has been charged with attempting to kill Altman and a security guard at the residence, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday.

Authorities allege 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama threw the incendiary device about 4 a.m. Friday, setting an exterior gate at Altman’s home alight before fleeing on foot, police said. Less than an hour later, Moreno-Gama allegedly went to OpenAI’s headquarters and reportedly threatened to burn down the building.

Moreno-Gama was opposed to artificial intelligence, writing about AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to court documents.

“This was not spontaneous. This was planned, targeted and extremely serious,” said FBI San Francisco Acting Special Agent in Charge Matt Cobo during a press conference.

On Monday morning, FBI agents went to Moreno-Gama’s home in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where they spent several hours before leaving. He has been charged by federal prosecutors with possession of an unregistered firearm and damage and destruction of property by means of explosives.

The FBI’s office in Houston confirmed agents were at the scene but declined further comment. Neighbors described the homeowners as “very nice people” who were involved with their church.

The criminal complaint does not name Altman or OpenAI but both have confirmed they were the targets of the attack. No injuries were reported.

When Moreno-Gama was arrested Friday, officials found a document on him in which he “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” court documents say. The document discussed AI’s purported risk to humanity and “our impending extinction,” according to the criminal complaint.

Authorities allege Moreno-Gama traveled from his home in Texas to San Francisco and visited Altman’s home early Friday morning.

Surveillance video images included in the criminal complaint show a person dressed in a dark hoodie and pants that the FBI alleges is Moreno-Gama approaching the driveway of Altman’s home. In various images, the person can be seen tossing the Molotov cocktail, which landed at the top of a metal gate and started a small fire.

Surveillance video images from outside OpenAI’s headquarters allegedly show Moreno-Gama grabbing a chair and using it to hit a set of glass doors. Authorities said Moreno-Gama was approached by the building’s security personnel, who told investigators he “stated in sum and substance” that he came to the headquarters “to burn it down and kill anyone inside,” according to the complaint.

San Francisco police arrested Moreno-Gama and recovered “incendiary devices, a jug of kerosene, a blue lighter, and a document.” Moreno-Gama was being held Monday in the San Francisco County Jail on various state charges, including possession or manufacture of combustible material or an incendiary device and arson.

The document in which Moreno-Gama discussed his opposition to AI also made threats against Altman, officials said.

“Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message,” Moreno-Gama is alleged by authorities to have written in the document.

Advocacy groups that have issued grave warnings about AI’s risks to society condemned the violence.

Anthony Aguirre, president and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, said in a written statement Friday that “violence and intimidation of any kind have no place in the conversation about the future of AI.”

Another group, PauseAI, said in a statement that the suspect had no role in the group but joined its forum on the social media platform Discord about two years ago and posted about 34 messages there, none containing explicit calls to violence but one that was flagged as “ambiguous.”

Discord said Monday that it has banned Moreno-Gama for “off-platform behavior.”

Hours after the attack on his house, Altman posted a photo of his husband and their toddler in a blog post addressing the threats against him.

“Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no matter what they think about me,” Altman wrote.

He added that “fear and anxiety about AI is justified” but it was important to “de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally.”

Altman has become a preeminent voice in Silicon Valley on the promise and potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The attack comes days after The New Yorker published an in-depth investigation that touched on concerns some people have about him and the company.

Lozano reported from Houston. Associated Press journalist Matt O’Brien contributed to this story from Providence, Rhode Island.

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