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Artist Essentials
12/14/2010
Tom Petty has stayed vital by maintaining an innate restlessness and orneriness. He battled his label over the price of Hard Promises (Petty wanted to keep the cost down) and took on the music i …
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Artist Essentials
12/14/2010
Take one headstrong frontman and team him with a crack cast of brawny rockers, and you've got a band with staying power. Tom Petty sounded strikingly fresh when he and the Heartbreakers turned up on ro …
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Artist Essentials
12/14/2010
Take a moment to consider all the bone-fide smash singles in the great ABBA catalog, and one thing becomes clear - there are plenty of could've-beens, would've-beens, and should've-beens. And that's wh …
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Artist Essentials
12/14/2010
So what, exactly, made ABBA one of the most successful and beloved pop bands of all time? We could say it was the vocals, the way that Agnetha and Frida, especially, sound like they were born to sing t …
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Artist Essentials
12/14/2010
"Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose," sang a young James Taylor. Yet by the mid-'70s his songs' shades had brightened considerably, when he proved himself as adept at upbeat R&B as introspec …
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Genres & History
12/14/2010
It's tough to say why sonic soft-serves like the Dynamics didn't enjoy the success of their Atlantic Records brothers, seeing as their "Ice Cream Song" is a tasty triple-scoop of sweet-cream harmonies, …
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My Groove
12/14/2010
When the party moves on into the early morning hours, any good DJ will take a break from the obvious dance-floor fillers and pep things up with an adrenalizing dose of rock, just so you don't nod off. …
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My Groove
12/14/2010
When folks get down on the dance floor at a wedding, birthday or office party, these tunes are positively guaranteed to convince the most reluctant of wallflowers to let their hair down and cut loose l …
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Genres & History
12/14/2010
Rock 'n' roll was never as wanton or more daring than its mid-'50s dawning. When Elvis swiveled his hips, Jerry Lee pounded the piano, Chuck Berry did the Duck Walk, and Little Richard cried "A wop bop …
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