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Billie Holiday's best-selling record, Strange Fruit was a sombre blues account of racism and lynchings in the south of America. Its confronting first line "Southern tree bears a strange fruit" evokes powerful images of the bodies of African-Americans swinging from the trees in which they've been lynched.

Like many songs Strange Fruit began its life as a poem, penned by New York schoolteacher Abel Meeropol after he was appalled by an image of two lynched Negros. Holiday put it into music and debuted it in performance in 1939 and it quickly became a popular number in her sets - although singing it sometimes distressed her or led her to fear retribution. Time magazine in 1939 derided the song as propaganda for the NAACP - ironically, sixty years later Time would select it as the 'song of the century'.

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