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Ute Lemper is a popular singer and actress born in Germany. In Germany, Lemper is very popular as a stage actor and as a musical singer for the German version of many English musicals. She has produced an extensive number of albums and is most well known in the United States for her renditions of Kurt Weill's work. In 1987 she release Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill and in 1993 released Ute Lemper Singer Kurt Weill - Volume 2. Inside of the music industry, Lemper is well respect as is obvious from her 2000 release Punishing Kiss which features original songs written by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and others.

Kurt Weill, the man whose music Ute Lemper performed, was a German composer who lived through the first half of the 20th century. Throughout the 20s and 30s Weill was massively popular as a stage composer - his influence living on in a number of performers. In 1933 during the Nazi occupation of Germany, Weill fled to the United States and began to work on famous pieces such as "Down in the Valley" up until his death in 1950. The popular Doors song "Alabama Song" is actually a Kurt Weill composition produced for Mahagonny.

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The Death Weather is a Nashville based band that plays a steady mix of heavy post-grunge rock as well as psychedelic, and indie. Strong classic-rock and hard rock influences can be heard through their music. 

The group itself is considered to be a modern-day super-group. The members of the group, Alison Mosshart, Jack White, Dean Fertita, and Jack Lawrence come from The Kills, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, and the Raconteurs respectively. The band formed with the opening of Third Man records, a new record company owned by Jack White himself. The band has only released two albums to date, Horehound and Sea of Cowards, both of which made it to the Billboard charts top ten.

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Robert Fripp is an English guitarist known mostly for his time in progressive rock band King Crimson - famous for the song "21st Century Schizoid Man". Fripp has played studio guitar for many popular rock musicians including David Bowie. Constantly, Fripp has been rated as one of the greatest guitarists of all time and has a line-up of solo albums himself.

In 1980 Fripp released a two sided album God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manner that was met with little commercial success. The album heavily used what it known as Frippertronics - a technique that creates loops and layers to produce fuller sounds and complete songs. Eventually this technique would become adopted by 'one-man bands' who in real time record loops of music and build a full song live on stage. "Under Heavy Manners" was the title track for the B side of the album. The A side focused on Frippertronics to produces bassline beats while the B side used the technique to produce more of a dance-track. 

"God Save the Queen" as a song was re-released though the entire album was not. Most recently, Fripp released a collaborative album in 2012 with Theo Travis entitled Follow.

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This image of Linda Ronstadt was taken outside her Malibu beach house. Ronstadt was an active musician from the late 1960s up until 2011 - her career came to an end when Parkinson's Disease took her ability to sing. Her most popular period came during the late 1970s, wherein she was a very high paid musician that straddled the line between pop and rock music. By 1980 she had released five straight platinum albums, three of which were number one on the Billboard charts. Ronstadt was/is known for her own music and perhaps equally for her covers of songs such as Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou" and the Motown classic "Heat Wave". Throughout her career she consistently  won Grammy awards - even through the 1990s and 2000s after her popularity began to fade. Since the early 2000s, she has used her influence to be outspoken on both political issues and an ardent supporter for arts programs nationally. Although Parkinson's has made it so that she cannot sing due to a loss of muscle control, she continues to go around the country giving speeches and motivational talks.

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This button is to promote John Lennon's 1975 album Rock'N'Roll. The advertising campaign behind the album focused on the phrase "you should'a been there". The album features a number of older songs (50s/60s rock) done with Lennon's own twist, the popular single being "Stand By Me". The album was reasonable successful and was released with mixed reviews.

John Lennon is most well known for his political activism in the United States and his role as guitar and vocalist for the English Rock group "The Beatles". Lennon died at the age of 40 where he was the victim of an assassination. He is fondly remembered and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone's 5th Greatest Singer of All Time and 38th Greatest Artist of All Time, BBC's 8th Greatest Briton, and holds two spots on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Lennon is survived by his second wife and music partner, Yoko Ono, and children Sean Lennon & Julian Lennon who also are musicians. 

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Bow Wow Wow is an English new wave band that was formed by Malcolm McLaren in 1980 to promote his and Vivienne Westwood's fashion line New Romantic. The original members were Leigh Gorman (bass), Annabella Lwin (vocals), Matthew Ashman (guitar), and David Barbarossa (drums). The band is best known for their cover of "I Want Candy", a song which was originally performed by The Strangeloves in 1965. Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy" cover has become highly associated with 1980s pop music and pop culture. 

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Bow Wow Wow is an English new wave band that was formed by Malcolm McLaren in 1980 to promote his and Vivienne Westwood's fashion line New Romantic. The original members were Leigh Gorman (bass), Annabella Lwin (vocals), Matthew Ashman (guitar), and David Barbarossa (drums). The band is best known for their cover of "I Want Candy", a song which was originally performed by The Strangeloves in 1965. Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy" cover has become highly associated with 1980s pop music and pop culture. 

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The Cult is a rock band that was formed in 1983 in the United Kingdom. The current members of the band include Ian Asbury lead vocalist, Billy Duffy lead guitarist, Chris Wyse, and John Tempesta. The Cult is thought to a musical style that is somewhat reminiscent of the mysticism of the Doors and more classic hard rock like Led Zepplin. The band, as a result of alcohol abuse and band member tension, broke up in 1995, but reunited in 1999. There were several hiatuses but the band continues to perform and make albums to this day.        

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Nazareth, the Scottish hard rock band, was founded in December 1968 in Dunfermline, Scotland with vocalist Dan McCafferty, guitarists Manny Charlton, bassist Pete Agnew, and drummer Darrell Sweet. The band took its name from the first line of the then popular song “The Weight” by The Band, after Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Some of Nazareth’s most popular songs include “Love Hurts” and “Hair of the Dog.” Both of these songs came from their album called Hair of the Dog, which they released in 1975. Although the personnel of the band has changed throughout the years, Nazareth continued to produce albums and tour to this day. The current members of Nazareth include bassist Pete Agnew, guitarist Jimmy Murrison, drummer Lee Agnew, and lead vocalist Linton Osborne.

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John Lennon is an English singer and songwriter who was not only a member of the world renowned Beatles, but was also a solo artist and political activist. Lennon was born and raised in Liverpool, England where he eventually formed a pop/rock band that would become the Beatles. After the break-up of the Beatles in 1970 Lennon began composing and recording solo albums.

He also made albums with Yoko Ono. John Lennon, even when he was still with the Beatles, was known for his quick wit and interesting and thought provoking lyrics. Some of his most popular solo pieces include “Imagine” and “Give Peace a Chance.” These two songs also tie into John Lennon’s political activism and his antiwar stance. As a result of Lennon and Yoko’s activism Richard Nixon attempted to deport the artist for many years during Vietnam.