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Scottish singer and musician Donovan performs the song 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' on the set of the BBC Television pop music television show Top Of The Pops at Lime Grove Studios in London on 30th May 1968. (Photo by Ivan Keeman/Redferns)
1971: (L-R) Dave Winthrop, Roger Hodgson, Frank Farrell, Rick Davies, Kevin Currie of the rock band "Supertramp" pose for a portrait in 1972. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
OAKLAND – 1977: Dolly Parton performs live at The Paramount Theatre in 1977 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Richard McCaffrey/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images)
American singer-songwriter James Taylor performs with acoustic guitar on a BBC TV show in London, 20th October 1970. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
NEW YORK – JANUARY 13-15: Bob Dylan plays a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar through an Ampeg amplifier while recording his album 'Bringing It All Back Home' on January 13-15, 1965 in Columbia's Studio A in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
American Disco and R&B singer Donna Summer (born LaDonna Gaines, 1948 – 2012) performs onstage at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, July 12, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
AMERICAN BANDSTAND- "Show Coverage" – 1/16/84
Mathew Wilder on the ABC Television Network dance show "American Bandstand".
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