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Bob Dylan, who wrote the Byrds' debut hit

On This Day in 1964, Bob Dylan Recorded the Song That Would Become His First No. 1 and Create a New Genre of Music

The Heartbreaking Reason Eric Clapton Stopped Performing This Hit in His Live Shows

The Heartbreaking Reason Eric Clapton Stopped Performing This 1992 Hit During His Live Shows

Welsh pop singer Steve Strange (1959 - 2015), of British new romantic group, Visage, during the filming of a video for the group's single, 'Night Train', at the Tenterden Town railway station of the Kent and East Sussex Railway in Tenterden, East Sussex, on the evening of 14th January 1982. (Photo by Brian Cooke/Redferns)

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 01: BOTTOMLINE Photo of Carly SIMON (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

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LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 1984: Rock and roll legend Bruce Springsteen poses for a portrait in December 1984 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images)

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