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and equally so a cultural observer - at times bordering on freakishly prescient

the blues had a baby and they calledåÊit rock ‰Û÷n‰۪ roll

complete with the tracklisting on a sticker

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David Bowie's work has always surprised

and recorded with Discos Fuentes starting in 1965

Williams is very talented - an early association with Jerry Wexler and Phil Walden led to him working for a number of years as a producer

Hardy got her way and

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Grosskopf set off for the West German countryside that fall and isolated himself in a home studio for almost two months to recordåÊSynthesist

Their songs can be light as air