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This Bostonian outfit burst upon the “New Wave” scene with the release of their 1st album in 1978. World domination duly ensued. Frontman and primary composer/vocalist Ric Ocasek may not have had the market cornered in the Enigmatic department, but certainly he was an upper-echelon representative.
This Great Man.
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Goulet’s Dimension.
This Great Man.
Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and the enigmatic Michael Nesmith burst upon the scene in 1966, and took the world by storm with their irrepressible/cheerful/wacky magical powers.
Songwriters for the group included the likes of Carole King, Neil Diamond, and John Stewart. So there.
The words ring true, as the sonic realms Mr. Ayler frequented are quite beyond the ken of mere mortals. To complete the quote: “Trane was The Father, Pharoah was The Son, and…”
Damn straight. Run-D.M.C, N.W.A., Eric B and Rakim, Jay-Z, Ahmad, Psy, and the Eminem. And Natalie P.
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Miles D.
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll noted “Miles Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-’40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style — in attitude and fashion — as well as music”.
Anecdote of note: Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: “Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except f**k the president?”
The winning ways of a Scotsman.
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