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The Grateful Dead is / are a unique band, that transformed popular music, changed the business model for pop music, singlehandedly invented the 'jam band scene', took touring to new levels, while embodying the 60's with their idealism and stupidities. This cd brings together parts of the February 13...

Aretha Franklin is somewhat overweight, probably singing in Vegas if she's not marrying or divorcing or suing someone. Or she's singing "Respect" in any Blues Brothers movie. She looks like a darker skinned version of Elizabeth Taylor and ruined her reputation in, albeit in a different fie...

Eels is singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, a man that also travels under the names A Man Called E, Mr. E, or simply E. Other members are mostly hired, E is the composer, singer, and player of most of the instruments. Because of his low voice, somewhat reminiscent of Jeff Tweedy of Wilco fame, so...

If you are members of a rather well known interesting band with a lot of success, largely due to a charismatic singer who writes (semi) profound lyrics and supposedly exposes his private parts on stage to get the concert going, what do you do when the singer dies? You start to sing yourselves! Phil ...

Cream is Eric Clapton (guitar and vocals), Jack Briuce (bass and vocals) and Ginger Baker (drums). All have sort of revolutionised the use of their instrument in popular music. Clapton will be somewhat familiar to most readers, especially since he entered his Armani phase in the 1980's and stopped b...

Ray Barretto is a percussionist of Puerto Rican origin, till his death in 2006. While retaining his Puerto Rican origin, he basically stopped being a percussionins the moment his heart stopped beating. Born in 1929 in New York. Before he could walk he started to play the congas, and never looked bac...

Bjorn: "Benny, let's try to come up with something relevant for this years' Eurovision Song contest" Benny: "Such as?" Bj: "Something that means something to all Europeans, that sort of binds us all together, inspires..." (trails off) B: "Such as?" Bj: "W...