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2023.
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On ordinary days, you could see him. A beautiful boy, but small with a smile given only to lilacs growing between broken sidewalks carrying in his pockets a sound. Before Prince became one of the bestselling musicians of all time, he was a boy named Prince Rogers Nelson. Often overlooked and abandoned, he found his own inspiration in the world around him - teaching himself how to play the guitar, the piano, the drums, and much more. And when he grew...
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[1993]
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""Hey Joe"..."Purple Haze"..."Foxy Lady"..."The Wind Cries Mary"...Jimi Hendrix's music is so distinctive, so remarkable, so soul-stirring that now, twenty years after his death, he still sells three to four million albums a year. Right-handed in life but left-handed on guitar, Jimi remains to this day a mystery, with his entire recorded work completed in a mere five years, ending with his tragic death in 1970. Many have tried to answer the questions:...
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c2015.
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On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic news that Michael Jackson-the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley-had died. He was only 50 years old when paramedics pronounced him dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. For weeks after his death, speculation and rumor abounded concerning the drugs in Jacksons system and the role Conrad Murray, the singers personal physician, had played in the his death. In 2011, Murray...
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2023.
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"As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ('Everyday People,' 'Family Affair'), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone’s influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a mystery. After a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades...
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