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The English post-punk revival/noise band, Clinic, was signed to Domino Records in 1999. The band is originally from Liverpool and is known for their strange chord progressions. The band is comprised of four members: Adrian “Ade” Blackburn who sings and plays guitar, keyboard and melodica; Brian Campbell who plays bass guitar and flute and sings backing vocals; Jonathan “Hartley” Hartley who plays guitar, keyboards, and clarinet; and Carl Turney who plays drums and piano and sings backing vocals. “Do It!” is the fifth album of the band and was released in April of 2008. The single that was released in conjunction with “Do It!” was “Free Not Free.” The song was perceived as being uncharacteristically mellow and subdued compared to their other songs.

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Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in Chicago, IL, in 1973. They released their first full-length, self-titled album in 1977. The band is known for its distinctive visual image and stage presence, which includes the frequent use of Hamer five-neck guitars by the group’s quirky front-man Rick Nielsen. Their second album, released later the same year, was perhaps their biggest success and featured songs “I Want You to Want Me” and “Hello There.”

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Carlos Santa is a Mexican American musician who is best known for his rock and Latin American musical fusion. Santa achieves this fusion through instrumentation and rhythm. Santa really crosses genre boundaries by combining elements of jazz, blues, salsa, rock, etc. to create is unique sound. The band had its first break through after playing at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969. This performance launched the band onto an international audience. Santa, and his band, has been active from 1969 to present day. Santana’s popularity began to slump in the 1980s as the band attempted to create music for commercial appeal. Nonetheless, the band regained its popularity in the 1990s as Carlos took on a collaborative project with new emerging artists. The result was the album Supernatural with artists such as Matchbox Twenty, Lauryn Hill, Cee Lo Green, Dave Matthews and others.

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Walter Dyett, also known as Captain Dyett, was a violinist and music teacher in Chicago’s public schools from the 1930s to 1960s. Dyett had originally studied the violin in California and moved to Chicago in the 1920s. He then became a teacher, most notably working at DuSable High School, where he taught for thirty years. Under Dyett, DuSable High became noted for its jazz musicians, churning out stars like Nat King Cole, Von Freeman, and Dorothy Young. Dyett died in 1968, but was honored in 2013 with a concert held by three DuSable alums who created songs based on Dyett’s famous sayings encouraging students to believe in themselves.

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Karma Chameleon is a single from UK band Culture Club's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The single spent three weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard in 1984, and hit number one in 16 countries worldwide. In the UK, it stayed at the top of the singles chart for 6 weeks and became the UK’s biggest selling single for 1983. The lead singer of Culture Club was Boy George, born George Alan O'Dowd. The group disbanded in the late 80s and Boy George pursued a solo career which included performing as a DJ and television appearances.

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Black Sabbath were a rock band formed in Birmingham, England in 1968. The original members were drummer Bill Ward, bassist/lyricist Geezer Butler, singer Ozzy Osbourne and guitarist/songwriter Tony Iommi. The group settled on the name "Black Sabbath" after writing a song of the same name that was inspired by a 1963 horror film entitled Black Sabbath starring Boris Karloff. The dark lyrics and sound differed from other pop music of the 1960s, and had a profound impact on the band's future direction. 

Over the years, the band has experienced numerous lineup and musical style changes, with Iommi as the only constant member. Black Sabbath has sold over 70 million records worldwide, and is considered one of the most influential heavy metal rock bands, inspiring groups such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, and many others. In 2015, it was announced that the band would embark on its final tour, "The End," from January 2016 to February 2017, featuring three of the four original members: Iommi, Butler and Osbourne. Ward opted out of the tour, due to health issues and disagreements with Osbourne. 

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Billy Idol is a British rock musician.  Born William Michael Albert Broad in 1955 in Middlesex, England, he apparently came up with the name Billy Idol because his school teachers would describe him as being idle. 

Early in his career, Idol was the lead singer of the band Generation X, who featured in Lech Kowalski's 1980 rockumentary film D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage.  After 3 albums the band split and Idol launched a successful solo career, working with ex-Kiss manager, Bill Aucoin.  Between 1982 and 2006 he released 7 studio albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1985, 1987 and 1991.

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Bif Naked is a Canadian singer songwriter and musician born in New Delhi India and raised in the United States and Canada. Her music is described as rock and pop punk.

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The Bee Gees were a pop music band formed by three brothers (Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb) in 1958.  The group was particularly successful in the late 1970s disco era.  The Gibb brothers also starred in the musical comedy Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released in 1978.  Beatles songs are used as dialogue to tell the story of a band doing battle with the music industry.  The soundtrack contains new versions of the songs from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the 1969 album Abbey Road.  In the film, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a small town’s beloved marching band.  After the bandleader’s death, the band is re-formed by his grandson (played by Peter Frampton) and his best friends (played by the Bee Gees).  Initially, the film received negative reviews, but it has since become a cult classic. 

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The B-52’s were a New Wave band from Athens, Georgia formed in 1976. “Dance This Mess Around” was a song off their debut self-titled album released in 1979 with Island Records and Warner Bros. Records. Known for their kitschy subject matter, the lyrics of this song reference all sorts of dance crazes of the 1950’s and 1960’s (both real and imagined) including, the Camel Walk, the Hippy Hippy Shake, the Shy Tuna, the Aqua-Velva, and the Escalator.