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Sun 21 September 2025 19:30, UK
Just about everybody loves a good mystery, but it’s not always for the same reasons. Some folks are obsessed with sleuthing and rapidly forming hypotheses on limited information in order to feel a sense or order and control in the universe—true crime docs and Reddit conspiracy threads are their playgrounds.
For others, the mystery itself is the draw; the romantic idea that something, somehow, can actually remain bewildering in a world of overwhelming surveillance and data bombardment is quite the comforting thought. “May it always remain unsolved,” they might say.
Pop music is chock-full of little mysteries of its own, of course, although the number seems to be dwindling year by year, as obsessed scholars have nearly overturned every single stone ever touched by a Beatle, and every beard ever worn by Bob Dylan.
Fortunately, there are still 2,843 music mysteries classified as “vaguely uncertain” by the Council for Unnecessary Studies, which gives us the chance to randomly select five of them for an update on our latest investigations.
Five classic songs with enduring mysteries:
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