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NEW YORK, NY – JULY 26: (L-R) Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum perform on ABC's "Good Morning America" at SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on July 26, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Debra L Rothenberg/Getty Images)
English singer, musician and songwriter Howard Jones during a performance, UK, 14th March 1985. (Photo by Stoddart/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
English group The Who perform on the set of the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus at Intertel TV Studio in Wembley, London on 11th December 1968. Left to right: John Entwistle (1944 – 2002), Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. (Photo by Mark Hayward Archive/Redferns)
BOSTON, MA- JUNE 1978: The Cars outside City Hall Plaza July 7, 1978 in Boston MA. David Robinson, Rick Ocasek, Greg Hawkes, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton (Photo by Ron Pownall/Getty Images)
(MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Redferns) American Rock, Pop, and Folk musician Jackson Browne plays acoustic guitar as he performs onstage at the Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, September 2, 1977. (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)
Musicians Reba McEntire and Kenny Rogers attend the NBC Fall TCA Press Tour on July 29, 1991 at Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Pop group the Bee Gees posed with a stuffed polar bear in an office in London circa April 1968. Members of the band are, from left, Colin Petersen, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb (1949-2003), Robin Gibb (1949-2012) and Vince Melouney. (Photo by Ivan Keeman/Redferns)
The Doors (L-R Robby Krieger, John Densmore, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek, house band at the Whisky a Go Go pose for a portrait in My 1966 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
