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Experimental composer from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts who self-released a series of intriguing tapes in the late 1980s and early 90s. Read more on Last.fm

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group’s core lineup consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as one of the most influential acts in popular music and played a central role in the development of 1960s counterculture. The Beatles’ music incorporated elements of skiffle, beat, 1950s rock and roll, classical music and traditional pop, and they explored styles including folk, Indian music, psychedelia and hard rock. Read more on Last.fm

eden ahbez (April 15, 1908 – March 4, 1995), born Alexander Aberle in Brooklyn, New York and adopted by a Kansas family and raised under the name George McGrew, was a songwriter and recording artist from the 1940s-1960s, whose lifestyle in California was influential on the hippie movement. He refused to use capital letters to spell his name. Ahbez composed the song "Nature Boy", which became a #1 hit for eight weeks in 1948 for Nat "King" Cole. Read more on Last.fm

In 1974, Shira Small recorded under the auspices of a senior project at a small Quaker boarding school in Newtown, Pennsylvania, “Eternal Life” is the product of her four years away from the Wagner Projects in East Harlem. “Eternal Life” came together from a scribbling on a bathroom wall (“Change is life’s only constant factor”), a troubling remedial math class (“The line of time and the plane of now”), and inspiration from turbulent feelings rocking her friend group during the Vietnam era. Read more on Last.fm

There are several artists with this name: 1. an American musician and singer-songwriter, 2. an Australian opera soprano born in the UK. --- 1) Jessica Pratt (born 1987) is an American musician and singer-songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2011 via Birth Records, a record label founded by Darker My Love and White Fence songwriter Tim Presley to release Pratt's music. She is often associated with the freak folk movement. Read more on Last.fm

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