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Stephen King's Mambo No. 5 Obsession

Stephen King's anecdote about playing Lou Bega's 'Mambo No. 5' repeatedly while writing his novel '11/22/63', which led to his wife Tabitha threatening to divorce him.

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revealed in a interview that he once played ’s “” so relentlessly that his wife, , “threatened to divorce” him, a line King repeated in several outlets reporting the interview . The anecdote — anchore...