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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
You can take David Bowie out of the '60s, but - like many of his generation - you can't take the '60s out of him. We start off with a cover of the Easybeats' 1966 hit "Friday On My Mind," a tune voted …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
Just about anywhere you turn in rock 'n' roll, David Bowie's been there and done that . . . and usually before anyone else. Relentlessly reinventing himself with the manic energy of a freshly caged pum …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
EWF always seemed capable of spawning hits in their sleep - even for others, like the Emotions' Maurice White-penned/-produced #1 smash "Best of My Love" - but there was much more beneath their pop-sin …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
There's no mountain in the music world that Earth, Wind & Fire hasn't climbed. Besides amassing enough GRAMMYr Awards and blockbuster Pop and R&B hits to plug up the Grand Canyon, and achieving a level …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
The year 1962 was a good one for George Jones' unsung influence on country music. August's "You're Still on My Mind" became a key cut six years later on Sweetheart of the Rodeo, the Byrds' pione …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
When country lovers rate a singer's ability, their measure of excellence is George Jones. It's not so much the songs (although many, such as "She Thinks That I Still Care," are brilliant) as the way he …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard weren't born stompin' the blues with those blackout shades and an aversion to the barber shop - well, maybe they were, but before starting ZZ Top, Gibbons got …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
To millions, ZZ Top are the three cool cats moving as one in the videos that took over MTV in the early '80s, but while their electronic update of '70s boogie made them household names, they'd already …
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Genres & History
1/18/2011
Welcome to Brazilian Deep Cuts, where beloved rockers Os Mutantes employ their anything-goes approach for the playful avant-pop of "Panis Et Circenses." And, in a marvelous, mind-boggling mash-up, new- …
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