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Everybody talks about being the first at something because, well, it's just cool to be first,

right? But what about being last? There's something called telisphobia, which is the fear of being

last at something. But sometimes you just don't have a choice. For example, the last person

killed in World War I was George Edwin Ellison. He was shot by a sniper 90 minutes before

the armistice went into effect at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918.

The last time a TV commercial for cigarettes ran on American TV was December 31st, 1970.

It was for Virginia Slims, and after that, all TV advertising of cigarettes was illegal.

And the last man to walk on the moon?

Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17, December 1972.

After reading through all sorts of famous lasts,

I got to thinking,

what are some famous musical lasts?

Here's what I managed to find out.

This is the ongoing history of new music, the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

Hello again, I'm Alan Cross, and I'm just looking through this list of lasts.

The last bare-knuckle boxing match was in 1889.

It went 75 rounds.

The last Farside cartoon was published in 1995. The last Dodo Bird was slaughtered on the island of Mauritius in 1691. Okay, wait, here's some music stuff. The last song the Beatles

finished recording before they broke up was I, Me, Mine. That session was on April

the 1st of 1970. The last song Elvis ever sang in performance was Bridge Over Troubled

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