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By the time the Hall & Oates’s eleventh studio album H20 was released they already had numerous hits. “Sara Smile” and “Rich Girl” put them on the map in the mid ‘70s.
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September 21, 2002: Eminem topped out at Number 4 on the US music chart with "Cleanin' Out My Closet."
In this song Eminem talks about his mother who he feels neglected and mistreated him.
The lyrical theme of John Mayer's "No Such Thing" encourages the audience to forge their own path, and not to "stay inside the lines."
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| John Mayer |
Dead or Alive had been going with various lineups since 1980, based around the commanding baritone and peacock glamour of front-man Pete Burns.
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| Dead Or Alive |
England’s alternative music scene never seems to make nearly deep an impact in the States as it does there, no matter the era.
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| EMF |
March 16, 1985: "Nightshift" by The Commodores, a tribute to Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye, knocked Diana Ross' "Missing You" from the Number 1 spot on the R&B chart.
The second consecutive R&B No. 1 to pay tribute to Marvin Gaye hit the top spot on 16 March 1985.
March 6, 2005: The American television series Intervention premiered. Its theme song, "Five Steps," was performed by The Davenports.
The Davenports are an American rock band. It formed in 2000 by Scott Klass in Brooklyn, New York.
Back before she was best known as a judge on reality talent shows like American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance, Paula Abdul was one of the biggest pop stars of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Paula Abdul
February 3, 2001: "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
It’s fair to say that Shaggy‘s “It Wasn’t Me” is one of the biggest hits in the entire world.
January 18, 2009: Top musicians performed at a Washington, DC concert to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
The 2009 concert "Obama's We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial" had a list of star-studded performers.
November 28, 1992: Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," a cover of a Dolly Parton song from 1974, goes to Number 1 in America.
Country icon Dolly Parton was behind the wheel of her car in 1992 when she heard an unmistakable a capella vibrato on the radio, though it took a moment for the tune to register.
When the phone rang at the Stax/Volt studios in Memphis in late November of 1967, guitarist Steve Cropper was surprised to hear Otis Redding on the other end, calling from the airport.
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| Otis Redding |
On the chorus of “Fire And Rain,” his 1970 breakout single, James Taylor sings, “I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.”
