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Melissa Etheridge Interview: "It Is an Absolute New Day," Rocker Declares with Her Latest, "This Is M.E."

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Melissa Etheridge

Rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and activist Melissa Etheridge has been in the music business over twenty-five years. She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations, winning two and an Academy Award. Her breakthrough album, Yes I Am, released in 1993, peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200 and spent 138 weeks on the chart, earning a certification of 6x platinum, her largest to date.

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LeAnn Rimes Interview: "It’s Difficult to Sit Around and Hear People Lie About You Constantly"

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LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes rose to stardom at age thirteen singing the Bill Mack country song “Blue” and released her debut album of the same name in 1996, which went to number one on the Top Country Albums chart. After that, she moved toward country pop with the 1997 album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs that set the trend for a string of albums released into the next decade.

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Joey Kramer Interview: Legendary Aerosmith Drummer Saddles Up with a Different Kind of Joe

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Joey Kramer

New York City native Joseph Michael “Joey” Kramer is the legendary drummer with the most successful band in American history: Aerosmith. Since 1970, he and his current partners, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton and Brad Whitford, have sold over 150 million albums, and today their multigenerational, global audience is bigger than ever.

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Geoff Downes Interview: Prog Rock Masters Yes Explore the Black and White World of Dichotomies on "Heaven & Earth"

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Yes

A native of England, Geoff Downes, along with Trevor Horn, formed the British group the Buggles during which Downes played multiple keyboards to achieve a new wave techno pop sound. In 1979, they released their first album with the hit song “Video Killed the Radio Star,” which was No. 1 on the singles charts in sixteen countries, and the music video was the first to be shown on MTV.

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