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GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND – JUNE 26: Paul Simon performs live on the pyramid stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 26, 2011 in Glastonbury, England. The festival, which started in 1970 when several hundred hippies paid 1 GBP to attend, has grown into Europe's largest music festival attracting more than 175,000 people over five days. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
BIG SUR – SEPTEMBER 15: Crosby, Stills and Nash and Young (L-R David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills) perform onstage at the Big Sur Folk Festival held at the Esalen Institue on September, 15 1969 in Big Sur, California. (Photo by Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Birmingham – September 10: Country Group Alabama L/R: Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Mark Herndon and Randy Owen open "My Home Is Alabama" Nightclub in Birmingham Alabama September 10, 1980 (Photo By Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
Country singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson relaxes in the dressing room before performing with Kris Kristofferson and Friends at Municipal Auditorium on April 29, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/WireImage)
Portrait of English Pop musicians Curt Smith (left) and Roland Orzabal, of the group Tears For Fears, Los Angeles, California, 1985. (Photo by John Kisch Archive/Getty Images)