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Before and during his climb to worldwide adulation and 100 million worldwide album sales, Rod Stewart, born on January 10, 1945, made a series of formative...
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Plenty of record executives like to think they have changed the shape of popular music in one way or another. Jerry Wexler, born on January...
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Steve Winwood was such a teenage prodigy that by 1981, he was already a veteran of 17 years or so in the music business, with...
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When Steely Dan burst onto the album rock scene in late 1972 with the remarkable Can’t Buy A Thrill, it not only signaled the arrival...
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