The Rest Is HistoryMusic: The Father of the Blues, Golden Age of Jazz, and David Bowie | History in Photos

The Lightning Bolt’s Secret Lineage

6:11–6:46 · 36s

Floyd traces Bowie's iconic lightning flash back through Elvis's Memphis Mafia logo and, surprisingly, to the Templar Christian Brotherhood’s TCB—revealing a quirky chain of cultural borrowing.

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