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In 1967, three members of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers recorded ... out like a sore thumb among Welch’s songs. A drawing of a penguin in a top hat became an enduring Fleetwood Mac logo ...

Does each of those songs have ... men from the boys, John plays mostly acoustic, which cannot be bluffed. “Billy Cobham’s Spectrum album gave life to me at the time, on top of the Mahavishnu ...

Blige, A Tribe Called Quest, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Matthews Band, the late Jimmy Buffett, MC5, the late Alexis Korner, the late John Mayall, the late Norman Whitfield ... The band had 12 Top 10 hits on ...

And then there is John ... Mayall into direct contact with African-American servicemen and gave him the chance to listen to US Armed Forces radio. He drew on his Korean experience for the song ...