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  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the fifteenth most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. Austin has a population of 786,382 (2009 U.S. Census estimate). The city is the cultural and economic center of the metropolitan area, with a population of 1,750,224 (2009 U.S. Census estimate), making it the 35th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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  Australia
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• Barcelona
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  California
  California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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  Canada
  Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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  Chicago
  Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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• Chicago, Illinois
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  Colorado
  Colorado (pronounced or, chiefly by outsiders, ) is a U.S. state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Mountain States, and the Southwestern United States.
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  Fresno, California
  Fresno (, ) is a city in California, USA, the county seat of Fresno County. As of 2010, the population was estimated at 505,479, making it the fifth largest city in California, the largest inland city in California, and the 35th largest in the nation. Fresno is located in the center of the wide San Joaquin Valley of Central California, approximately north of Los Angeles and south of the state capital, Sacramento. The city is part of Metropolitan Fresno, which, with a population of 922,516 is the second largest area in the Central Valley after the Sacramento Metropolitan Area. The name Fresno is the Spanish language word for the ash tree, and an ash leaf is featured on the city's flag.
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  Illinois
  Illinois ( {{respell|-i-), is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. It is the most populous state in the Midwest region, however with 65% of its residents concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area, most of the state has either a rural or a small town character. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. As the "most average state", Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics, though the latter has not really been true since the early 1970s.
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  Los Angeles
  Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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  Minnesota
  Minnesota () is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.27 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
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  New Zealand
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  Pacific Ocean
  The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.
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  Russia
  Russia (; ), also officially known as the Russian Federation (), is a state in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both via Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the United States by the Bering Strait. At , Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the ninth most populous nation with 142 million people. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 9 time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's fresh water.
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  Sitges
  Sitges (, Catalan for silos), Catalonia, Spain is a small city about 35 kilometres southwest of Barcelona renowned worldwide for its Film Festival and Carnival. Between the hills and the sea, it is known for its much-frequented beaches, nightspots, and historical sites.
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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  Amy Tan
  Amy Tan (; born February 19, 1952) is a Chinese American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. The book has been translated into 35 languages.
  http://wn.com/Amy_Tan
• Bill Berry
  William "Bill" Thomas Berry (born July 31, 1958, Duluth, Minnesota) is an American former musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer. Apart from his drumming duties, he played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M. records. After his retirement from the band he has maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M. and appearing on other artists' records.
  http://wn.com/Bill_Berry
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  Billy Bob Thornton
  Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). He appeared in several major film roles following Sling Blade 's success, including 1998's Armageddon and A Simple Plan. During the late 1990s, Thornton, who has had a life-long love for music, began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums and was the singer of a blues rock band.
  http://wn.com/Billy_Bob_Thornton
• Bo Diddley
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• Bob Dylan
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  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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  Brian Setzer
  Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group The Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with a jazz-oriented big band.
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  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of Heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
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• Carl Hiaasen
  Carl Hiaasen () (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and novelist.
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  Chick Corea
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer.
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  Dave Barry
  David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels.
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• Dave Marsh
  Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950, Detroit, Michigan) is an American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show host. He was a formative editor of Creem magazine, has written for various publications such as Newsday, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone, and has published numerous books about music and musicians, mostly focused on rock music.
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  David Letterman
  David Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC. Only Letterman's friend and mentor Johnny Carson has had a longer late-night hosting career.
  http://wn.com/David_Letterman
• Don Everly
  http://wn.com/Don_Everly
• Don Henley
  Donald Hugh "Don" Henley (born July 22, 1947; Gilmer, Texas) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and drummer, best known as a founding member of the Eagles before launching a successful seven time Grammy Award-winning solo career. His solo hits include "Dirty Laundry", "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", and "The End of the Innocence". In 2008, he was ranked the 87th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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• Elvis Presley
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  Emmylou Harris
  Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Costello and Dolly Parton.
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• Ernie K-Doe
  Ernie K-Doe (February 22, 1936 - July 5, 2001), born Ernest Kador, Jr., was an African American rhythm and blues singer best known for his 1961 hit single "Mother-in-Law" which went to #1 on the Billboard pop chart in the U.S.
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• Everly Brothers
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  Flea (musician)
  Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), more commonly known by the stage name Flea, is an Australian-born American-raised bassist, songwriter, trumpet player, session musician and occasional actor, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. His work with the band incorporates several musical styles, ranging from aggressive slap bass to more subdued and melodic techniques. Flea has played trumpet from his teen years, and still makes occasional use of the instrument. Aside from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he has collaborated with many artists, including Jane's Addiction, The Mars Volta, Alanis Morissette, Ziggy Marley, Slash, Damon Albarn, Bryan Ferry and with Thom Yorke in the supergroup Atoms for Peace.
  http://wn.com/Flea_(musician)
• Gary Fleder
  Gary Fleder (born December 19, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His most recently completed film, The Express, is based on the true story of football player Ernie Davis, and was released by Universal Pictures in October 2008.
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• Gary Mallaber
  Gary Mallaber (born October 11, 1946 in Buffalo, New York) is a Los Angeles session drummer, percussionist and singer. He got his start playing drums in a band from Buffalo, New York, known as Raven.
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• Hunter S. Thompson
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• Igor Stravinsky
  http://wn.com/Igor_Stravinsky
• Irving Azoff
  Irving Azoff (born December 13, 1947) is an American personal manager, representing recording artists in the music industry such as Josh Groban, Journey, Jewel, The Eagles, X Japan, Bush, REO Speedwagon, Seal, Christina Aguilera, David Archuleta, Alter Bridge, Van Halen, 30 Seconds to Mars, Neil Diamond, New Kids on the Block, Steely Dan, Guns N' Roses and just recently signed New Edition. Azoff is chairman and founder of Azoff Music Management Group, Inc. In late 2008, he became chairman and CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment. He is now the chairman of Live Nation Entertainment.
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  Jack Casady
  Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13, 1944 in Washington D.C), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C. area rhythm and blues band "The Triumphs", he switched to bass during his high school years and while still underage (and with a forged I.D.), played the Washington D.C club scene, backing artists such as Little Anthony and the Imperials and Ray Charles. He became the bass player for Jefferson Airplane when lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, a high school friend and former Triumphs rhythm guitarist, invited him to join in late September 1965. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco sound. Their singles, including "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," had a more polished style and successfully charted in 1967 and 1968. Casady, along with the other members of Jefferson Airplane, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
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  Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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  James Bond
  James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English-language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr. No.
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• Jerry Garcia
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  Joe Walsh
  :For other persons named Joseph/Joe Walsh, see Joseph/Joe Walsh
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• John McVie
  John Graham McVie (born on 26 November 1945) is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of the rock group Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of Mick Fleetwood, was the inspiration for the band's name. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing temporary bassist Bob Brunning.
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  John Ritter
  actor
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  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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• Jordan Zevon
  http://wn.com/Jordan_Zevon
• Jorge Calderón
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  Jorma Kaukonen
  Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen Jr. (born December 23, 1940, Washington, D.C.) is an American blues, folk and rock guitarist, and an inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Jorma_Kaukonen
• Kim Fowley
  Kim Vincent Fowley (born July 21, 1939) is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll" and as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream."
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  Leonard Cohen
  Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often deals with the exploration of religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well-regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career.
  http://wn.com/Leonard_Cohen
• Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released five solo albums and a live album. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
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  Martin Scorsese
  Martin Charles Scorsese (; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese is president of The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation.
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  Matt Groening
  Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama.
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  Maya Angelou
  Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, ''Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie''.
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  Michael Stipe
  John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960) is an American singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. Stipe is in charge of the band's visual image, often selecting album artwork and directing many of the band's music videos. Stipe's work extends outside of the music industry, and he runs his own film production companies, C-00 and Single Cell Pictures.
  http://wn.com/Michael_Stipe
• Mick Fleetwood
  Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac.
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  Mike Mills
  Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County, California) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who is a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboards, guitars, strings, wind and percussion instruments. He also contributes to a majority of the band's musical compositons.
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  Mitch Albom
  Mitchel David "Mitch" Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 28 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for his sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known now for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films. He is also well-known for his philanthropic work in Detroit, Michigan where he founded four charities.
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  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of blues". Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
  http://wn.com/Muddy_Waters
• Neil Young
  http://wn.com/Neil_Young
• Norman Mailer
  http://wn.com/Norman_Mailer
• Paul Nelson (critic)
  Paul Nelson (born January 21, 1936, in Warren, Minnesota, and died circa June 28, 2006, in New York City) was a folk and rock music critic who wrote for Sing Out! and Rolling Stone. He was instrumental in launching and supporting the careers of Bob Dylan, The New York Dolls, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon. Nelson defended Bob Dylan when he "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Nelson was found dead in his Manhattan apartment in July of 2006. Heart disease was determined to be the cause of death, according to the medical examiner's office in New York City.
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  Paul Shaffer
  Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer, best known for his work alongside comedian David Letterman. He is the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman, and has appeared on Letterman's shows since 1982.
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  Peter Buck
  Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956 in Berkeley, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe, of the alternative rock band R.E.M.
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• Phil Everly
  http://wn.com/Phil_Everly
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  Philip Habib
  Philip Charles Habib (February 25, 1920–May 25, 1992) was a Lebanese-American career diplomat known for work in Vietnam, South Korea and the Middle East. The New York Times in observing his passing described him as "the outstanding professional diplomat of his generation in the United States".
  http://wn.com/Philip_Habib
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  Prince (musician)
  Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson, June 7, 1958) is a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He has been known under the unpronounceable symbol , which he used between 1993 and 2000. During that period he was frequently referred to in the media as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", often abbreviated to "TAFKAP", or simply "The Artist"
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• Richie Hayward
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• Robert Craft
  Robert Lawson Craft (born October 20, 1923) is an American conductor and writer. He is best known for his intimate working friendship with Igor Stravinsky, a relationship which resulted in a number of recordings and books.
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  Ross Macdonald
  Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 - July 11, 1983). He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.
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• Skip Battin
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  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been made into many movies. He is known for novels such as Carrie, The Shining, The Stand, It, Misery, and the seven-novel series The Dark Tower, which King wrote over a period of 27 years. As of 2010, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories including Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, and ''Everything's Eventual''. Many of his stories are set in his homestate of Maine. He has collaborated with authors Peter Straub and Stewart O'Nan. Some of his novels have been also been turned into comic books, such are The Stand, The Talisman, and The Dark Tower series.
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  Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood (born 12 May 1948 in Birmingham) is an English international recording artist whose career spans more than 40 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music (blue-eyed soul), R&B;, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. Winwood is a multi-instrumentalist who plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin and other stringed instruments. His trademark style is singing in a tenor voice and playing the Hammond organ. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. Winwood has won numerous Grammy Awards in the United States of America.
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  Stevie Nicks
  Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 120 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.
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• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil, born Isaac Donald Everly, February 1, 1937, and Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939) are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The brothers are the most successful U.S. rock and roll duo on the Hot 100. Their greatest period came between 1957 and 1965.
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  Timothy B. Schmit
  Timothy Bruce Schmit (born October 30, 1947, in Oakland, California) is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as bass guitar player and singer for Poco and the Eagles. Schmit has also worked for decades as a session musician and solo artist.
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  Tom Petty
  Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
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  Wampus Multimedia
  Wampus Multimedia is an American media company founded by artist and producer Mark Doyon. Wampus has released modern rock and folk albums internationally from Arms of Kismet, tvfordogs, Cafebar 401, Amateur God, Alice Despard, Casey Abrams, Johnny J. Blair, Neil Luckett, The Crowd Scene, The Matthew Show, The May Bees, Kowtow Popof, Wampeters, and others. It also has released the compilation CDs Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon (2005), After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed (2003), and If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman (2001).
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• Warren Zevon
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  William Gibson
  William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984). In envisaging cyberspace, Gibson created an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. He is also credited with predicting the rise of reality television and with establishing the conceptual foundations for the rapid growth of virtual environments such as video games and the Web.
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  William Shatner
  William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series ' from 1966 to 1969, ' from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek as well as several co-written novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
  http://wn.com/William_Shatner

• Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
• A Certain Girl
• Jungle Work
• Empty-Handed Heart
• Interlude No. 1
• Play It All Night Long
• Jeannie Needs a Shooter
• Interlude No. 2
• Bill Lee
• Gorilla You're a Desperado
• Bed of Coals
• Wild Age

• The Envoy
• The Overdraft
• The Hula Hula Boys
• Jesus Mentioned
• Let Nothing Come Between You
• Ain't That Pretty at All
• Charlie's Medicine
• Looking for the Next Best Thing
• Never Too Late for Love

• Accidentally, Like a Martyr
• Please Stay
• Reconsider Me
• Searching For a Heart
• Hostage-O
• She's Too Good For Me
• Tenderness on the Block
• For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
• I'll Slow You Down
• El amor de mi vida
• Keep Me in Your Heart
• Back in the High Life Again
• Don't Let Us Get Sick

• Follow Me
• Like the Seasons
• I've Just Seen a Face
• Peeping and Hiding
• If You Gotta Go, Go Now
• I'll Go On
• Follow Me
• (You Used To) Ride So High
• Outside Chance
• I See the Lights
• And If I Had You
• A Bullet for Ramona
• Song 7
• Write If You Get Work

• Dirty Life and Times
• Disorder in the House
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Numb as a Statue
• She's Too Good for Me
• Prison Grove
• El Amor de Mi Vida
• The Rest of the Night
• Please Stay
• Rub Me Raw
• Keep Me in Your Heart

• Transverse City
• Run Straight Down
• The Long Arm of the Law
• Turbulence
• They Moved the Moon
• Splendid Isolation
• Networking
• Gridlock
• Down in the Mall
• Nobody's in Love This Year
• Networking (Acoustic Demo)

• Sentimental Hygiene
• Boom Boom Mancini
• The Factory
• Trouble Waiting to Happen
• Reconsider Me
• Detox Mansion
• Bad Karma
• Even a Dog Can Shake Hands
• The Heartache
• Leave My Monkey Alone
• Nocturne
• Leave My Monkey Alone (Spanish)

• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• The French Inhaler
• Carmelita
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Werewolves of London
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
• Excitable Boy
• Lawyers, Guns and Money
• Interlude No. 1 / Play It All Night Long
• A Certain Girl
• Looking for the Next Best Thing
• Detox Mansion
• Reconsider Me
• Boom Boom Mancini
• Splendid Isolation
• Raspberry Beret
• Searching for a Heart
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• Mr. Bad Example
• Mutineer
• I Was in the House When the House Burned Down
• Genius

• Sacrificial Lambs
• Basket Case
• Lord Byron's Luggage
• MacGillycuddy's Reeks
• You're a Whole Different Person When You're Scared
• Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)
• Genius
• Laissez-Moi Tranquille
• I Have to Leave
• My Ride's Here

• I Was in the House When the House Burned Down
• Life'll Kill Ya
• Porcelain Monkey
• For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
• I'll Slow You Down
• Hostage-O
• Dirty Little Religion
• Back in the High Life Again
• My Shit's Fucked Up
• Fistful of Rain
• Ourselves to Know
• Don't Let Us Get Sick

• Frank and Jesse James
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
• Carmelita
• Desperados Under the Eaves
• Johnny Strikes Up the Band
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
• Excitable Boy
• Werewolves of London
• Accidentally Like a Martyr
• Lawyers, Guns and Money
• Frozen Notes
• Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
• Gorilla, You're a Desperado
• Play It All Night Long
• Mohammed's Radio (live version)
• Jeannie Needs a Shooter (live version)
• The Envoy
• The Hula Hula Boys
• Let Nothing Come Between You
• Looking for the Next Best Thing

• Seminole Bingo
• Something Bad Happened to a Clown
• Similar to Rain
• Indifference of Heaven
• Jesus Was a Cross Maker
• Poisonous Lookalike
• Piano Fighter
• Rottweiler Blues
• Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse
• Mutineer

• Finishing Touches
• Suzie Lightning
• Model Citizen
• Angel Dressed in Black
• Mr. Bad Example
• Renegade
• Heartache Spoken Here
• Quite Ugly One Morning
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
• Searching for a Heart

• Wanted Dead or Alive
• Hitchhikin' Woman
• She Quit Me
• Calcutta
• Iko-Iko
• Traveling in the Lightning
• Tule's Blues
• A Bullet for Ramona
• Gorilla
• Fiery Emblems

• Frank and Jesse James
• Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded
• Backs Turned Looking Down The Path
• Hasten Down The Wind
• Poor Poor Pitful Me
• The French Inhaler
• Mohammed's Radio
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
• Carmelita
• Join Me In L.A.
• Desperados Under The Eaves

• Lawyers, Guns & Money
• Detox Mansion
• Boom Boom Mancini
• Johnny Strikes Up the Band
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
• Reconsider Me
• Excitable Boy
• Sentimental Hygiene
• Accidentally Like a Martyr
• Werewolves of London
• Play It All Night Long
• Ain't That Pretty at All

• Empty Hearted Town
• Steady Rain
• Join Me in L.A.
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Werewolves of London
• Tule's Blues
• The French Inhaler
• Going All the Way
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• Studebaker
• Accidentally Like a Martyr
• Carmelita
• I Used to Ride So High
• Stop Rainin' Lord
• The Rosanita Beach Cafe
• Desperados Under the Eaves

• Radio Introduction
• These Days
• Cocaine
• Linda Paloma
• Mohammed's Radio
• Frank and Jesse James
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Desperados Under the Eaves
• Excitable Boy
• For a Dancer
• Something Fine
• Carmalita
• Werewolves of London
• Backs Turned Down the Path
• Carmalita #2
• Mohammed's Radio #2
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

• Frank and Jesse James
• Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded
• Backs Turned Looking Down the Path
• Hasten Down the Wind
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• The French Inhaler
• Mohammed's Radio
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
• Carmelita
• Join Me in L.A.
• Desperados Under the Eaves

• Werewolves of London
• Excitable Boy
• Play It All Night Long
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
• The Envoy
• Mohammed's Radio
• Desperados Under the Eaves
• Johnny Strikes Up the Band
• I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
• Lawyers, Guns and Money
• Ain't That Pretty at All
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• Accidentally Like a Martyr
• Looking for the Next Best Thing

• Johnny Strikes Up the Band
• Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
• Excitable Boy
• Werewolves of London
• Accidentally Like a Martyr
• Nighttime in the Switching Yard
• Veracruz
• Tenderness on the Block
• Lawyers, Guns and Money

Born: 1947-01-24

Died: 2003-09-07