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Bob Dylan
Madonna performing in 1987
Original Dreamgirls
Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Led Zeppelin
Public Enemy
Bill Haley and His Comets
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The true story of Priscilla Presley and Elvis
How Bob Marley brought reggae into the mainstream
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Al Kooper
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American musician and record producer
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Leon Russell
American songwriter, producer, and musician
Rick Wright
British musician
Mike Stoller
American songwriter and record producer
John Entwistle
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Tom Donahue
American disc jockey
Norman Petty
American musician and producer
John Wetton
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Alan Freed
American radio personality
Larry Lujack
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David Cook
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Publicity still of Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock in 1957. (cinema, movies, motion pictures, film)
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
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