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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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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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1/18/2011
They called Johnny Cash the Man in Black - and not just because he swaddled himself in dark clothing. No, that blackness went deeper than his outfit, penetrating his skin and burrowing right down into  …
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1/18/2011
In Johnny Cash's world, Daddy may have sung bass, but Johnny sang just about everything else, sometimes in the company of rather surprising musical partners. With a few lines lifted from British folk a …
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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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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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1/17/2011
David Gray manages to embody the musical values of old-school singer-songwriterdom while bringing something distinctly modern to the troubadour tradition at the same time. Sometimes he does it by fusin …
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1/17/2011
Through the last two decades, David Gray has earned a reputation as one of Britain's best balladeers, but he knows how to rev up and let loose too. "Faster, Sooner, Now" finds Gray rocking things up to …
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1/11/2011
Given the outlandish outfits and multicolored make-up mask, it's all too easy to forget that the Boy George image is only part of the process, a fatade through which the man born George O'Dowd projects …