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UNITED KINGDOM – JULY 01: HAMMERSMITH ODEON Photo of Carole KING, performing live onstage (Photo by David Warner Ellis/Redferns)
American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, Dr. John performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, 1st July 1973. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Kenney Chesney performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 20, 2003 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)Kenney Chesney performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre on June 20, 2003 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
British singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie, wearing a black waistcoat over a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, performs live in concert at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, February 1976. The concert was part of Bowie's 'Isolar Tour' (variously known as the 'White Light Tour', the 'Thin White Duke Tour, and the 'Station to Station Tour'), in support of his album 'Station to Station'. (Photo by John Lynn Kirk/Redferns/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Group portrait of The Zombies walking down a street arm in arm in Chiswick, west London, 1965. L-R Rod Argent, Paul Atkinson, Colin Blunstone, Chris White, Hugh Grundy. (Photo by Stanley Bielecki/ASP/Getty Images)