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| x Jack Bruce | Cream | Bass guitar | 1966 | ||
| x Massive Attack |
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Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor |
Massive Attack are a music production and vocal duo from Bristol, United Kingdom. Working alongside co-producers, they assemble a collective of various favoured session musicians and guest vocalists with whom they make records and tour live. The duo...
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| x William S. Burroughs |
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William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain |
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; pronounced /ˈbʌroʊz/) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his...
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| x Meg Lee Chin | Pigface | ||||
| Meg Lee Chin vs. Hanzel und Gretyl | |||||
| Meg Lee Chin vs. Martin Atkins | |||||
| x Ani DiFranco |
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Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco |
Ani DiFranco (pronounced /ˈɑːniː/) (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over twenty albums, and is widely celebrated as a...
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| Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan | |||||
| Indigo Girls & Ani DiFranco | |||||
| x Beck |
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Beck & Willie Nelson |
Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements...
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| Caspar and Mollusk | |||||
| Beck & The Flaming Lips | |||||
| Beck & Emmylou Harris | |||||
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| x Built to Spill |
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Built to Spill & Caustic Resin |
Built to Spill is an American indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho. The band has released seven full-length albums. Their most recent album, There Is No Enemy, was released on October 6, 2009. Built to Spill is currently touring the United States...
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| x Dusty Springfield |
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The Springfields |
Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American...
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| Dusty Springfield & Daryl Hall | |||||
| The Springfields | |||||
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| x Elliott Smith |
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Heatmiser |
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon,...
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| Stranger Than Fiction | |||||
| Elliott Smith and Pete Krebs | |||||
| x Mary Timony | Helium |
Mary B. Timony (born in Washington, D.C., 1970) is an American indie rock singer, guitarist, keyboardist, and violist.
Timony attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., where she played guitar in the jazz band and also...
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| Autoclave | |||||
| Team Sleep | |||||
| The Spells | |||||
| Led Byrd | |||||
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| x Tori Amos |
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Y Kant Tori Read |
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in Newton, North Carolina) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career...
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| x Modest Mouse |
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Modest Mouse & 764-Hero |
Modest Mouse is an American alternative rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long...
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| x Radiohead |
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Band Aid 20 |
Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien ...
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| x Cypress Hill |
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Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill |
Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. Originally called DVX, the name was changed after Mellow Man Ace left in 1988. Cypress Hill was the first Latino group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18...
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| Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill | |||||
| Roni Size & Cypress Hill | |||||
| x John Williams |
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John Williams & The Boston Pops |
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Jaws, Star Wars, Superman,...
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| Boston Symphony Orchestra | |||||
| Count Basie Orchestra | |||||
| x Frank Sinatra |
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Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra |
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s,...
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| Frank & Nancy Sinatra | |||||
| Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim | |||||
| The Sinatra Family | |||||
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| x Harry Connick, Jr. |
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Branford Marsalis & Harry Connick, Jr. |
Harry Connick, Jr. (born Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr.; September 11, 1967) is an American singer, actor, composer, and pianist. Connick has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the...
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| x Mariah Carey |
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Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey |
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her...
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| Mariah Carey & Luther Vandross | |||||
| Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men | |||||
| x The Chieftains |
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James Galway & The Chieftains |
The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.
The band's name came from the book Death of a Chieftain by Irish author...
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| Van Morrison & The Chieftains | |||||
| The Chieftains and Friends | |||||
| Leahy with The Chieftains | |||||
| Meryl Streep and The Chieftains | |||||
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| x Dan Fogelberg | Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg |
Daniel Grayling Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music.
Dan Fogelberg,...
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| x James Taylor |
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Joni Mitchell & James Taylor |
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer–songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He currently owns a home in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. A five time Grammy Award...
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| James Taylor & Alison Krauss | |||||
| John Sheldon & James Taylor | |||||
| James Taylor & Inez Foxx & Charlie Foxx | |||||
| James Taylor & J.D. Souther | |||||
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| x Styx |
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Styx & REO Speedwagon |
Styx (pronounced /ˈstɪks/) is an American rock band, best known for their most popular hit songs "Lady" (#6, 1975), "Come Sail Away" (#8, 1977), "Babe" (#1, 1979), "The Best of Times" (#3, 1981) and "Mr. Roboto" (#3, 1983). Other hits such as "Show...
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| x The Temptations |
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Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations |
The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B;, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult...
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| Stevie Wonder & The Temptations | |||||
| x Annie Lennox |
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Eurythmics |
Annie Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish musician and recording artist. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox showed aptitude in music when she was a child and later studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She began...
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| The Tourists | |||||
| Annie Lennox & Al Green | |||||
| Annie Lennox & David Bowie | |||||
| Annie Lennox & Aretha Franklin | |||||
| x Billy Joel |
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Elton John & Billy Joel |
Billy Joel (born William Martin Joel; May 9, 1949) is an American rock musician, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the...
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| U.S.A. for Africa | |||||
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Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin |
Eurythmics were a British musical duo, formed in 1980 by Scottish front woman Annie Lennox and British musician Dave Stewart. The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning...
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| x Phil Collins |
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Genesis | 1970 |
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
Collins sang the...
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| Band Aid | |||||
| Brand X | |||||
| David Crosby & Phil Collins | |||||
| The Phil Collins Big Band | |||||
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| x Richard Marx |
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Richard Marx & Donna Lewis |
Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer...
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| Ringo Starr All-Starr Band | |||||
| x Bryan Adams |
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Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting |
Bryan Adams, OC, OBC (born Bryan Guy Adams on November 5, 1959) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer. Adams was first nominated at the 28th Grammy Awards for Reckless and "It's Only Love" and won the Grammy and in 1992 won the award...
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| Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams | |||||
| Sweeney Todd | |||||
| Bryan Adams & Roger Waters | |||||
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| x Tupac Shakur |
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Digital Underground |
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In addition...
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| 2Pac & Outlawz | |||||
| Thug Life | |||||
| 2Pac & Nas | |||||
| 2Pac & Dr. Dre | |||||
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| x De La Soul |
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Nightmares on Wax & De La Soul |
De La Soul is an American hip hop group formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres. The members...
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| Native Tongues Posse | |||||
| Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul | |||||
| De La Soul & Parappa the Rapper | |||||
| Queen Latifah & De La Soul | |||||
| x The Sugarhill Gang | Sugar Hill Gang And The Furious 5 |
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for their biggest hit, "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop single recorded to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses the instrumental track from "Good Times" by Chic as its foundation.
The...
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| The Furious Five Meets The Sugarhill Gang | |||||
| x Pearl Jam |
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Neil Young & Pearl Jam |
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), and Mike McCready (lead...
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| Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill | |||||
| x Queen |
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Queen & David Bowie |
Queen are a British rock band formed in 1970. Queen consisted of vocalist Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor. The band became popular with audiences via their hit singles, live performances,...
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| Queen & Elton John | |||||
| Queen & George Michael | |||||
| Queen + Paul Rodgers | |||||
| x Tom Petty |
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Tom Petty |
For the New York based band, see The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of whom had...
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| Traveling Wilburys | |||||
| Bob Dylan & Tom Petty | |||||
| Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks | |||||
| Mudcrutch | |||||
| x U2 |
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Band Aid |
U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of Bono (vocals and rhythm guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).
The band formed at secondary school...
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| Mary J. Blige & U2 | |||||
| U2 & Johnny Cash | |||||
| U2 & Green Day | |||||
| x Sheryl Crow |
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Steve Earle and Sheryl Crow |
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a liberal political activist.
She has...
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| Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson | |||||
| x Sinéad O'Connor |
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Peace Together |
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (pronounced /ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnər/, shi-NAYD-oh-KON-ər; born 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success...
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| Shane MacGowan & Sinéad O'Connor | |||||
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| x Hans Zimmer |
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Buggles |
Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Gladiator, The Lion King, The...
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| Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard & Klaus Badelt | |||||
| Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badelt | |||||
| Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams | |||||
| Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard | |||||
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| x Danny Elfman |
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Oingo Boingo | 1974 |
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American musician, best known for composing music for television and movies, and leading the rock band Oingo Boingo as singer/songwriter from 1976 until its breakup in 1995. He is a frequent...
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| x Lauryn Hill |
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Fugees |
Lauryn Noel Hill (born May 25, 1975) is an American recording artist, musician, producer and actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the lone female member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo...
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| Lauryn Hill & Carlos Santana | |||||
| x Snap! |
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Snap! vs. Plaything |
Snap! is a German-American electronic music group formed in 1989 by German producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, but was most successful when fronted by rapper Turbo B, who...
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| x Christopher Franke | Tangerine Dream | 1971 |
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953 in Berlin) is a musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus...
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| x The Chemical Brothers |
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The Chemical Brothers with Justin Warfield |
The Chemical Brothers are the English electronic music duo Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (full names Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands and Edmund John Simons — occasionally referred to as Chemical Tom and Chemical Ed). Known for their live sets, they are...
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| x ATB |
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Dance United |
André Tanneberger (born 26 February 1973, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany) is a German DJ, musician, and producer of electronic dance music. According to the official world DJ rankings governed by DJ Magazine, ATB is currently (2009 list) ranked #11. He...
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| Sequential One | |||||
| ATB with Heather Nova | |||||
| x Eiffel 65 |
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Hand in Hand for Children e.V. |
Eiffel 65 was a Grammy-nominated Italian electronic dance three-piece group, formed in the late 1990s and best known for their international hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". Their other hit singles include "Move Your Body" and "Too Much of Heaven", all of...
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| x Chris Cornell |
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Soundgarden |
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle; July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007), and for his numerous solo works and...
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| Temple of the Dog | |||||
| Audioslave | |||||
| Alice Mudgarden | |||||
| x Bryan Ferry |
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Roxy Music | 1972 |
Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945, Washington, Tyne and Wear) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor known for a suave visual and vocal style, earning him the epithet 'The Electric Lounge Lizard'. Ferry came to public...
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| Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music | |||||
| Bryan Ferry & Antony | |||||
| x Chet Atkins |
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Chet Atkins & Tommy Emmanuel |
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded...
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| Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed | |||||
| Chet Atkins & Merle Travis | |||||
| Chet Atkins and Doc Watson | |||||
| Chet Atkins & Les Paul | |||||
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| x Iris DeMent | Tom Russell & Iris DeMent |
Iris DeMent (born January 5, 1961) is an American singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country and folk music.
DeMent was the youngest child of Pat DeMent and his second wife, Flora Mae. (As the baby of the family,...
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| John Prine and Iris DeMent | |||||
| Iris DeMent & Kari Bremnes | |||||
| x k.d. lang |
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Tony Bennett & k.d. lang |
Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961), better known by her stage name k.d. lang is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter. She gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these...
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| Roy Orbison & k.d. lang | |||||
| x Peter Cetera | Peter Cetera & Amy Grant | ||||
| Chicago | |||||
| x Yves Montand |
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Les Enfoirés |
Yves Montand (French pronunciation: [iv mɔ̃ˈtɑ̃]; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991) was an Italian-born French actor and singer.
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy to Josephine and Giovanni, poor peasants. Montand's family left...
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| x House of Pain |
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Helmet & House of Pain |
House of Pain is an Irish-American hip-hop group who released three albums in the early to mid 1990s before lead rapper Everlast decided to pursue his solo career again. The group is best known for its 1992 hit single "Jump Around", which reached #3...
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| x Brian Setzer |
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra |
Brian Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and occasional actor.
Setzer was born in Massapequa, New York. Beginning in January 1980, he fronted the popular rockabilly band, Stray Cats. After performing from New...
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| Stray Cats | |||||
| Brian Setzer '68 Comeback Special | |||||
| The Honeydrippers | |||||
| Bloodless Pharaohs | |||||
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| x Incubus |
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Incubus & DJ Greyboy |
Incubus is an American rock band, from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school. The band expanded to include bassist Alex ...
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| Time Lapse Consortium | |||||
| x Will Smith |
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DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince |
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. Newsweek has called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been...
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| x Glen Campbell |
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Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell |
Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is a Grammy and Dove Award-winning and two time Golden Globe-nominated American country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as...
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| Glen Campbell & Leslie Satcher | |||||
| The Beach Boys | |||||
| Juicy Lucy | |||||
| Glen Campbell & Michelle Shocked with Texas Tornados | |||||
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| x Chumbawamba |
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Chumbawamba & Credit to the Nation |
Chumbawamba are a British band. Over a 27-year career, the band plays music ranging from anarcho-punk, pop-influenced dance music, a cappella/choral music and world music to acoustic folk music.
The band are best known for their song "Tubthumping" ...
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| Negativland / Chumbawamba | 1999 | ||||
| Carpet Bombers for Peace | |||||
| x Mudhoney |
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Mudhoney and Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
Mudhoney is an American grunge band. Formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Matt Lukin (who left in 1999 to be...
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| Mudhoney & Sir Mix-A-Lot | |||||
