UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 01: HAMMERSMITH ODEON Photo of Bill WITHERS, 231-233 (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)
American R&B & Pop singer Smokey Robinson performs onstage at Radio City Music Hall, New York, New York, June 10, 1982. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)
American soul singer and songwriter Sam Cooke (1931 – 1964), 1963. A publicity shot for RCA Records. (Photo by Gems/Redferns/Getty Images)
Whitney Houston at Madison Square Garden in her first concert appearance here since the fall of 1985. Fans who couldn't get their hands on tickets have been snapping up her current album, "Whitney," which already has logged 3 million sales. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1960: Photo of Strawberry Alarm Clock Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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Minnie Riperton, late 1970s (Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage)
JIMI HENDRIX, (1968)
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The Bee Gees, circa 1977. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED – JANUARY 01: Photo of Solomon BURKE; Posed studio portrait of Solomon Burke (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns)
Bobby Hebb poses for a studio portrait in 1966 in the United States. (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns)
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circa 1955: American rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) with a twelve string guitar. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Beatles rehearse at the ABC Theatre, Blackpool for the group's bill-topping appearance on ABC TV's Blackpool Night Out, 1 August 1965. Left to right: George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Ringo Starr. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
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NASHVILLE, TN – Jim Foglesong, Garth Brooks and Allen Reynolds attends the 2009 Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award at the Renaissance Hotel on August 23, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Beth Gwinn/Getty Images)
