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The Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, […]
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After meeting as students at Bard College in upstate New York, Walter Becker and Donald Fagenthey began writing songs together on the piano in the common room of Walter’s dormitory. […]
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Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Montreal anglophone enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934. His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha (“Masha”) Klonitsky (1905–1978), […]
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The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked […]
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