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SAN FRANCISCO – NOVEMBER 1976: Bob Dylan joins The Band (L to R: Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Rick Danko, Van Morrison, Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson) to play their Last Waltz at Winterland on November 25, 1976 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images)
THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE – Airdate: March 19, 1966. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) NANCY SINATRA WITH DANCERS
The Singing Nun, born Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers, she is a nun at the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Fichermont, Belgium. Pictured in convent December 1963 A.k.a. Sister Luc Dominique Sister Sourine Jeanine Deckers Soeur Sourire Sister Smile (Photo by Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
American businessman Allen Klein (1931 – 2009) outside the Law Courts in London, March 1971. He managed The Beatles and The Rolling Stones amongst others. (Photo by Jones/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
