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Dan Fogelberg performs onstage with an acoustic guitar in circa 1976 in Los Angeles, Californial. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
UNSPECIFIED – circa 1968: (AUSTRALIA OUT) Photo of American group Gary Puckett and the Union Gap posed circa 1968. Gary Puckett is 2nd from right. (Photo by GAB Archive/Redferns)
Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck of REM at the Aragon Ballroom In Chicago, Ilinois, July 7, 1984. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)