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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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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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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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Over the course of more than five decades, Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music. With classic albums including Late […]
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Crow was born on February 11, 1962, in Kennett, Missouri, the daughter of Bernice (née Cain), a piano teacher, and Wendell Wyatt Crow, a lawyer and trumpet player. Studying at […]
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Paul McCartney has written over 1,000 songs and is undoubtedly one of the most gifted songwriters pop music has ever known. After The Beatles disbanded, he debuted as a solo […]
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1. Buddy Holly was the first artist to have a posthumous number one when ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore’ topped the charts in April 1959. 2. ‘Little Red Rooster’ by The […]
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