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| x My Morning Jacket |
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SNL - 33.11 | Evil Urges | SNL - 33.11 |
My Morning Jacket is a Grammy-nominated American rock band. The band comprises Jim James (singer-songwriter, guitarist), Tom "Two-Tone Tommy" Blankenship (bassist), Patrick Hallahan (drummer), Carl Broemel (guitarist, pedal steel guitarist,...
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| x Nirvana |
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SNL - 17.10 | Smells Like Teen Spirit | SNL - 17.10 |
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band...
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| SNL - 17.10 | Territorial Pissings | SNL - 19.1 | |||
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| x Cowboy Junkies |
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SNL - 14.13 | SNL - 14.13 |
Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Michael (songwriter, guitarist), Margo (vocalist) and Peter Timmins (drummer), and Alan Anton (bassist).
The Junkies first performed publicly at the...
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| x Britney Spears |
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SNL - 25.19 | Oops!... I Did It Again | SNL - 29.3 |
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and entertainer. Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel...
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| SNL - 25.19 | Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know | SNL - 25.19 | |||
| SNL - 27.12 | SNL - 27.12 | ||||
| SNL - 29.3 | |||||
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| x Laurie Anderson |
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SNL - 11.15 | SNL - 11.15 |
Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles....
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| x Chaka Khan |
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SNL - 10.4 | SNL - 10.4 |
Chaka Khan (pronounced /ʃækæ kɑːn/; born March 23, 1953) is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "Ain't Nobody", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire". She also sang a modernized theme song for...
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| x Dave Matthews |
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SNL - 29.5 | SNL - 29.5 |
David John Matthews is a Grammy Award-winning musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band.
David John Matthews was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on January 9 1967,, the third of four...
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| x Barenaked Ladies |
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SNL - 24.12 | SNL - 24.12 |
Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL or occasionally BnL) is a Juno-winning and Grammy-nominated Canadian alternative rock band. The band is composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven...
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| x Dixie Chicks |
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SNL - 28.11 | SNL - 28.11 |
The Dixie Chicks is a country music group, presently comprised of Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and lead singer Natalie Maines. The group have sold 30.5 million albums in the United States, making them the best-selling female group in the country....
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| x Harlan Collins | SNL - 1.22 | SNL - 1.22 |
Paul Harlan Collins, more often known as Harlan Collins, is a composer, arranger, musician, and writer. His daily feature, "Today's Chuckle", which was started by his father Tom in 1948, is the most widely syndicated front page feature in the world....
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| x Miles Davis |
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SNL - 7.3 | SNL - 7.3 |
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major...
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| x Ric Ocasek |
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SNL - 12.3 | SNL - 12.3 |
Ric Ocasek (born Richard T Otcasek on March 23, 1949) is an American musician and music producer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Bowling Green State University. He is the former vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Cars. He has...
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| x Lone Justice |
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SNL - 12.8 | SNL - 12.8 |
Lone Justice was an American country rock band formed in 1982 by guitarist Ryan Hedgecock and singer Maria McKee.
They began their career as one of the more promising bands of the L.A. cowpunk scene of the 1980s. Lone Justice was inspired by...
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| x The Replacements |
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SNL - 11.7 | SNL - 11.7 |
The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979. The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career....
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| x Technotronic | SNL - 15.14 | SNL - 15.14 |
Technotronic was a studio-based Belgian music project formed by Jo Bogaert (born 1954, Aalst, Belgium) in 1988, who had already made his musical mark in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various new beat...
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| x Fear |
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SNL - 7.4 | SNL - 7.4 |
Fear is an American punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977 and is still a band today. Credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the band started out as part of the early California punk rock...
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| x Blues Traveler |
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SNL - 21.1 | SNL - 21.1 |
Blues Traveler is an American rock band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul, and Southern rock. They are known for extensive use of...
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| x The Power Station | SNL - 10.14 | SNL - 10.14 |
Power Station was a 1980s supergroup made up of singer Robert Palmer; bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor of Duran Duran; and former Chic drummer Tony Thompson. Bernard Edwards, also of Chic, was involved on the studio side as recording...
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| x Paul Simon |
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SNL - 12.5 | SNL - 26.4 |
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He entered the public consciousness in 1965 as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, along with longtime artistic partner Art Garfunkel. Simon solely wrote most of the music...
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| SNL - 3.4 | SNL - 31.18 | ||||
| SNL - 31.18 | SNL - 20.4 | ||||
| SNL - 20.4 | SNL - 3.4 | ||||
| SNL - 16.6 | SNL - 12.5 | ||||
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| x Bootsy Collins |
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SNL - 29.16 | SNL - 29.16 |
William "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.
Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and...
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| x Death Cab for Cutie |
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SNL - 31.10 | SNL - 31.10 |
Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard (vocals, guitar), Chris Walla (guitar, production), Nick Harmer (bass) and Jason McGerr (drums)....
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| x James Blunt |
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SNL - 31.7 | SNL - 31.7 |
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974), is an English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases, especially "You're Beautiful", brought him to fame in 2005. His repertoire is a mix of pop, rock and...
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| x James Taylor |
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SNL - 17.9 | SNL - 2.1 |
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Carrboro, North Carolina. He currently owns a home in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
Taylor's...
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| SNL - 13.9 | SNL - 4.18 | ||||
| SNL - 19.6 | SNL - 13.9 | ||||
| SNL - 2.1 | SNL - 17.9 | ||||
| SNL - 5.14 | SNL - 19.6 | ||||
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| x Lily Allen |
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SNL - 32.12 | SNL - 32.12 |
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English pop music singer and songwriter. Known for her songs "Smile", "LDN", her cover of "Oh My God" by British act The Kaiser Chiefs, "The Fear", "Fuck You" and her Mockney style, Allen is the...
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| x Madness |
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SNL - 9.17 | SNL - 9.17 |
The Madness is a self-titled album by the British band The Madness. In 1988, after the breakup of the original Madness, four of the original members (Suggs, Lee Thompson, Chris Foreman and Cathal Smyth) recreated the band, adding "The" to its name....
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| x Simply Red |
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SNL - 13.4 | SNL - 13.4 |
Simply Red are an English soul band who have sold over 50 million albums over a 25 year career. Their style draws influences from blue-eyed soul, new romantic, rock, and jazz.
Simply Red's roots originate from the 1976 Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser...
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| x Modest Mouse |
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SNL - 30.5 | SNL - 30.5 |
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for...
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| x Herbie Hancock |
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SNL - 10.8 | SNL - 10.8 |
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is a jazz pianist and composer. His music embraces elements of rock and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.
As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped...
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| x Los Lobos |
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SNL - 12.19 | SNL - 12.19 |
Los Lobos ("The Wolves") are an American Chicano rock band. They are 3-time Grammy Award winners. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country music, folk, R&B;, blues and traditional Spanish and Mexican music such as boleros and...
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| x System of a Down |
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SNL - 30.18 | SNL - 30.18 |
System of a Down is an Armenian-American rock band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. System of a Down consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals and keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals and guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass), John Dolmayan (drums). A...
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| x Deniece Williams |
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SNL - 9.16 | SNL - 9.16 |
Deniece "Niecy" Williams (born June 3, 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s. Williams, whose music has been influenced by pop, soul, gospel, R&B; and dance, is...
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| x Good Charlotte |
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SNL - 28.16 | SNL - 28.16 |
Good Charlotte is an American band from Waldorf, Maryland that formed in 1996. They took their name from the children's book called "Good Charlotte: The Girls of Good Day Orphanage," written by Carol Beach York.
The members of the band are identical...
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| x Hanson |
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SNL - 23.9 | SNL - 23.9 |
Hanson is an American pop rock band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
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| x The Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
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SNL - 23.4 | SNL - 23.4 |
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American third wave ska band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Formed in 1983, the Bosstones are credited with the creation of the ska-core genre, a form of music that mixes elements of third wave ska and hardcore punk....
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| x Kinky Friedman |
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SNL - 2.5 | SNL - 2.5 |
Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31 or November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and...
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| x Metallica |
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SNL - 23.8 | SNL - 23.8 |
Metallica /məˈtælɪkə/ is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1981. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm...
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| x Salt-N-Pepa |
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SNL - 19.12 | SNL - 19.12 |
Salt-N-Pepa is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from Queens, New York that came onto the music scene in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt"), now Cheryl Wray, Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and DJ Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper ...
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| x Sarah McLachlan |
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SNL - 23.7 | SNL - 23.7 |
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968(1968-01-28)) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.
She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range. As of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums...
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| x Midnight Oil |
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SNL - 18.19 | SNL - 18.19 |
Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. Vocalist Peter Garrett was...
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| x The Donnas |
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SNL - 28.10 | SNL - 28.10 |
The Donnas are an American all-female hard rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss. Rolling Stone has stated that "the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation; they traffic in...
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| x Kevin Rowland |
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SNL - 8.20 | SNL - 8.20 |
Kevin Rowland (born 17 August 1953 in Wolverhampton) is an English singer-songwriter and frontman for pop band Dexys Midnight Runners. Rowland draws on his Irish ancestry in much of his music.
Rowland's first group, Lucy & The Lovers, were...
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| x Andrew Gold | SNL - 5.20 | SNL - 5.20 |
Andrew Maurice Gold (born on August 2, 1951 in Burbank, California) is an American singer, musician and songwriter, best known in his homeland for his 1977 Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" and the 1978 single "Thank You for Being a Friend." His best known...
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| x Jimmie Vaughan |
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SNL - 11.10 | SNL - 11.10 |
James Lawrence "Jimmie" Vaughan (born March 20, 1951) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Dallas, Texas. He is the older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Jimmie Vaughan's style was influenced by Freddie King who gave him personal...
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| x Tom Petty |
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SNL - 17.3 | SNL - 24.17 |
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is a Heartland rock band, most of whose members are from United States of America. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of which had been members of Mudcrutch. Petty and the...
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| SNL - 24.17 | SNL - 5.4 | ||||
| SNL - 22.1 | SNL - 17.3 | ||||
| SNL - 14.20 | SNL - 14.20 | ||||
| SNL - 5.4 | SNL - 22.1 | ||||
| x The Dream Academy |
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SNL - 11.6 | SNL - 11.6 |
The Dream Academy was a 1980s pop band from England, comprising singer/guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes; multi-instrumentalist (chiefly oboe and English horn player) Kate St John; plus keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel. They are most noted for their hit single...
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| x Brian Wilson |
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SNL - 2.9 | SNL - 2.9 |
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California) is a Grammy Award-winning American musician best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the American rock and roll band, the Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass,...
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| x The Allman Brothers Band |
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SNL - 7.9 | SNL - 7.9 |
The Allman Brothers Band is a Southern rock band based in Macon, Georgia, United States. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, organ). While the band...
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| x Elton John |
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SNL - 7.17 | SNL - 7.17 |
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
In his four-decade career, John has sold over 200 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of...
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| x Laura Branigan |
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SNL - 8.8 | SNL - 8.8 |
Laura Branigan (July 3, 1957 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Irish ancestry. She is best known for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria". Branigan is also remembered for her other Top-10 hits, "Self Control", ...
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| x Morrissey |
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SNL - 18.6 | SNL - 18.6 |
Steven Patrick Morrissey (pronounced /ˈmɒrɪsi/; born 22 May 1959), known primarily as Morrissey, is a British singer-songwriter. After a short stint in the punk rock band The Nosebleeds in the late 1970s, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as the...
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| x Kelly Clarkson |
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SNL - 30.12 | SNL - 30.12 |
Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly-publicized first season of the television series American Idol in 2002....
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| x Moby |
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SNL - 27.20 | SNL - 27.20 |
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby is an American DJ, singer-songwriter and musician.
He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. After eight top 40 singles in the UK in the 1990s he released...
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| x Lauryn Hill |
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SNL - 24.8 | SNL - 24.8 |
Lauryn Noel Hill (born May 25, 1975 in South Orange, New Jersey) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, rapper, musician, songwriter, producer, and film actress. Early in her career, she established her reputation in the hip-hop world as the...
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| x Snoop Dogg |
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SNL - 19.16 | SNL - 19.16 |
Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. (born October 20, 1972), better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg), is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast...
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| SNL - 25.3 | SNL - 22.11 | ||||
| SNL - 22.11 | SNL - 25.3 | ||||
| x Billy Idol |
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SNL - 9.11 | SNL - 9.11 |
Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955, Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English rock musician.
He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided...
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| x Julee Cruise |
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SNL - 15.19 | SNL - 15.19 |
Julee Cruise (born 1 December 1956, in Creston, Iowa) is an American singer, and actress.
With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult U.S....
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| x Van Morrison |
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SNL - 4.4 | SNL - 4.4 |
Van Morrison (George Ivan Morrison, OBE, born 31 August 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter with a reputation for being at once stubborn, idiosyncratic, and sublime. His live performances at their best...
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| x MC Hammer |
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SNL - 17.8 | SNL - 17.8 |
Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), best known by his stage names MC Hammer, Hammer and Hammertime, is a multi-platinum selling MC, entertainer and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s. Remembered for a rapid rise to...
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| x Shaggy |
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SNL - 26.12 | SNL - 26.12 |
Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968, Kingston, Jamaica), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae singer who takes his nickname from Scooby-Doo's companion—a nickname given to him by his friends during his...
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| x Squeeze |
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SNL - 8.7 | SNL - 8.7 |
Squeeze are an English band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s. They are known in the UK for their hit songs "Cool for Cats," "Up...
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