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Some from my myspace that I once thought of, no particular order and i have obviously missed some corkeres... Sir George Martin, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder (70's), Bob Marley, James Brown (& most affiliates), Jimi Hendrix, Miles, Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, John Williams, Gustav Holst, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra & Zappa, Paul Weller, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Graham, Nina Simone, Burt Bacharach, John Williams, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Prince, The Meters, Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson, Jackson 5, Carol king n Kaye, Martha Peebles, Massive Attack, Tricky, Wynton, Branford and Ellis (Whose the other one?) Marsalis, George Benson, Gordon Sumners (earlier) heheh, Lenny Kraitz (earlier), Jamiroquai (Earlier), Shuggie Otis, Mother Earth, Terry Callier, Roy Ayers, Fela Kuti, Manu Dibango, Soul II Soul, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Radiohead, U2, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Kinks, NWA, MAW, Ninjatoonz, DJ Shadow, Public Enemy, Beasties, Zero 7, D-Note, Lamb, Take 6, Jazzmatazz, Blaxploitation, Giles Peterson, Nuyorican Soul, Gershwin, Hammerstein & Rodgers, Jhelisa, Blackaliscious, Slick Rick, Pharell, Trevor Horn, A Tribe Called Quest, Canadian Racer, Jurassic 5, Chas n Dave....and on and on
blur, the smiths, the beatles, britpop, rhcp, frusciante, hendrix, sly and the family stone, elliot smith, nick drake, mars volta, the police, stevie wonder, brian wilson,
well, i write my own songs so i suppose Beatles (OBVIOUSLY!!) , macca, Dylan (quite a lot), elliott smith, aimee mann, morrissey, smiths, kirsty macColl, Bob Marley, ray davis, Elvis Costello, Neil Finn...
It's been a Hard Days Night & i've been working like a dog!
The Beatles, The Kinks, The Stones, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson is THE most underated genius of ALL time, IMO) Jeff Lynne & Ron Wood,Brian Wilson, Hendrix (NATURALLY),Dylan, Badfinger, Roger McGuinn, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend & Roger Daltry, Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman, Jerry Garcia, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Michael Brown (the long unsung hero/genius of The Left Banke), Felix Caveliere of The Rascals, Herb Alpert, the plaintive voice of Robin Gibb (the OLD Bg's stuff, not the disco-era SNF stuff--although that is good too), Joe Cocker, Karen Carpenter's sad, beautiful voice, The Hollies, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Mary Hopkin, (so underated), Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Deep Purple's Jon Lord & Richie Blackmore, Lynyrd Skynyrd (spelled it right...I think...lol), Clapton (in Blind Faith AND Cream), Carlos Santana, Astrud Gilberto & Jobim, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, The Buckinghams, Chicago, Grand Funk Railroad, Eric Carmen (in Rasberries and solo stuff), Nilsson, Steve Winwood (Traffic & solo), Cat Stevens, Mozart, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Bach, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Johnny Cash AND the perfect voice of Patsy Kline.