How Pop Songs Work
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Featured Artists
John Lennon
The 鈥淪mart Beatle鈥 who became a peace activist and released a series of avant-garde albums with wife Yoko Ono...
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Amy Winehouse
One of the most talented, and oddball, contemporary UK artists. Amy鈥檚 distinctive 鈥楤lues Mama鈥 voice seems almost surreal...
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Joni Mitchell
Highly influential and important Canadian singer-songwriter, and never one to be pigeon-holed...
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Queen
An immensely popular English rock band, Queen were formed at the beginning of the 1970s by Freddie Mercury...
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Jamie T
This gifted 21-year-old from Wimbledon has experienced a meteoric rise to fame since he exploded...
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ABBA
Sweden's greatest national export got their first big break when they won the Eurovision Song Contest...
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Beatles
The Beatles were one of the most critically acclaimed and successful rock bands of all time...
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Wyclef Jean
Haitian rapper, guitarist, producer, and member of the hip hop trio The Fugees...
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Rihanna
It鈥檚 not so long ago that young Robyn Rihanna Fenty was singing Mariah Carey covers on a beach in Barbados...
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Cher
American singer, actress, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many accomplishments...
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