American author Dean Koontz eerily predicted the coronavirus outbreak — at least partly — in a novel penned almost four decades ago called “The Eyes of Darkness”. #Unpacked explores the world Koontz imagined plagued by the virus “Wuhan-400”. | Sky News Australia

Back in New York in November 1981 to work on their next album, Combat Rock, the legendary Beat poet and Howl-author Allen Ginsberg also turned up at the studio with his friend Peter Orloffsky and contributed a spoken-word section to the track Ghetto Defendant, a song about heroin undermining political organisation in the ghetto. Ginsberg had researched the US punk scene and included references to “slam dance” and “the worm”. | The Clash