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5/12/2009
When you think of Meat Loaf, you think of such larger-than-life pop-rock extravaganzas as the searing "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" or the autobiographical tearjerker "Objects in the Rear …
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5/12/2009
Meat Loaf's 1977 smash album, Bat Out of Hell, went platinum many, many times over, spawned no less than three hit singles - including the bittersweet power balled "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" - …
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5/12/2009
By the end of the '70s, disco was a force of nature that pulled A-list artists into its orbit from the most distant points in pop's universe. Gravel-throated blues rocker Rod Stewart, light-years beyon …
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5/12/2009
Too long, too black, too intense, too gay . . . or maybe just too cool: '70s-era Top 40 radio programmers spun an ever-whirling wheel of excuses to justify keeping these underground favorites of …
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5/12/2009
Disco didn't begin with one song, in one place, at one time. It was lightning in a bottle - that once-in-a-lifetime flash point where rhythm, sex, and fabulosity converged to transform the face …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
As great as some of his guest productions are (the stripped-back banger "Keep Bouncin'," a handful of career-rebooting selections for Macy Gray), will.i.am is a lot like Kanye West in that he's saved s …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
To call the past three years a golden age of production gigs for will.i.am would be a gross understatement. While he got his start crafting whip-smart jams for the Black Eyed Peas in the mid '90s, outs …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
One look at those paisley shirts and long, flowing manes and you know the Hoodoo Gurus can lay down some lava-lamp-lovin', psychedelic action. The guys really let their freak flag fly on "(Let's All) T …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
At a time when '60s-inspired sounds were mainly found in the West Coast's Paisley Underground, the Hoodoo Gurus popped up from Down Under to prove there was more to Aussie rock than Men At Work. While …
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