It turns out that in the 1900s, it’s completely OK to kill your wife’s alleged lover in a rage of passion. The jury dismissed his insanity plea but he was eventually acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Upon discovering letters between her and a local drama critic, Major Harry Larkyns, discussing the fact that Larkyns may have fathered Muybridge’s 7-month old son, he shot Larkyns point-blank, killed him, and was arrested that night without protest.Īt his trial, he pleaded insanity on the grounds that his head injury had dramatically altered his personality, but undercut this plea by his own insistence that his actions were deliberate and premeditated. There, he married 21-year old Flora Shallcross Stone and fathered a child. During his twenties, he traveled across America selling books and photographs before a serious head injury he suffered in a stagecoach accident in Texas in 1860 forced him back to England for rest and recovery. He was born Edward James Muggeridge on April 4th, 1830, in England, and for some unknown reason, later changed his name to the far harder to spell, Eadweard James Muybridge. The track reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart upon its release in 1997, where it remained for four consecutive weeks, and is one of the best-selling singles in the history of the Official Chart.As mentioned, the man we have to thank for this11-frame cinematic first is Eadweard Muybridge. Ryan Gosling celebrates his first-ever Official UK Top 40 entry with dramatic ballad I’m Just Ken (25), while Lizzo’s bouncy bop Pink makes its debut (39).Īnd while it technically isn’t a track on the Barbie soundtrack (instead, it’s directly sampled on Barbie World), Aqua’s influential Barbie Girl has re-entered the Top 40 for the first time in 25 years, experiencing week-on-week uplift of 91%.
It’s experienced a massive week-on-week uplift of 285%, while also becoming Charli’s first Top 20 single as a lead artist since 1999 with Troye Sivan in 2018. Last year, Disney’s Encanto became the first animated film soundtrack to claim three simultaneous Top 10s with We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Surface Pressure and The Family Madrigal.Īnd the Barbie-mania doesn’t stop there! A whole host of tracks from Barbie: The Album have impacted the wider Official Singles Chart today, with a total of six entries across the Top 40.Ĭharli XCX’s Speed Drive re-enters the chart at Number 19, becoming Charli’s 14th Top 40 hit. The first film soundtrack to score three simultaneous Top 10s was Saturday Night Fever in 1978 (Night Fever, If I Can’t Have You, More Than A Woman), while Grease also completed a trifecta in the same year (Summer Nights, Grease, Hopelessly Devoted To You). MORE: Barbiemania hits the Official Chart Similarly, Dance The Night boosts up eleven places into the Top 10 for the first time, with its total chart units seeing an 86% uplift, to become Dua’s 13th Top 10 single.īarbie World grants Aqua their first UK Top 5 in 25 years, since Turn Back Time in 1998, enjoying a week-on-week uplift of 115%, becoming Ice Spice’s first, Nicki’s 15th and Aqua’s sixth Official Top 10 entry. What Was I Made For rises seven places, with a 71% uplift in chart units compared to last week, when it debuted at Number 10.
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