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Great Migration of Blacks
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Big Mama Thornton Born
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Berry Gordy Born
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Elvis Born
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Phil Spector Born
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Black unemployment = 7%
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Bob Dylan Born
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Muddy Waters moves to Chicago
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WDIA all-white radio
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WDIA all-black "mother station of the Negro"
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Elvis Moves to GRACELAND in Memphis
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Cross Bronx Expressway
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Music Industry Net Worth $188 Million
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Sam Phillips SUN Records made
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Hound Dog Most Covered Song
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Elvis enters SUN records. Legacy begins
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"Race Problem" in desegregation
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R&R began w/ whites covering blacks
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Elvis on the Milton Berle show hip controversy
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Alex Kornor tours Muddy Waters in Britain
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Michael Jackson, Prince, and Madonna Born
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The "In Between Years" of music industry
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Motown chart 357/535 = 67% hits
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Motown Revue (touring) begins
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Early Beatles
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Golden age of teenage music
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Bob Dylan Goes Electric at Newport Folk Festival
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Middle Beatles
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Motown chart 75% hits
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End of R&R dominance
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First HUMAN BE IN
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Late Beatles
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Led Zeppelin's Prime
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Heavy Metal Becomes OWN Genre
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Led Zeppelin dethrones Beatles as #1 English Band
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Forbes says 50 R&R stars making 2 - 6 mill/year
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Music industry net worth $2 billion
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Bruce Springsteen joins E Street Band
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Bruce Springsteen on Time Magazine Cover
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KISS first album "Alive"
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Elvis Dead
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KISS most popular band in USA
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Music industry net worth $4 billion
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Disco becomes OWN genre
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WKTU an all rock station, switches to all disco
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Disco = most popular genre
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Michael Jackson drops "Off The Wall" album
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Prince drops "Dirty Mind" album - controversial
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Blacks under 18 in poverty = 50%
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MTV = "All purpose" radio playing only British rock
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MTV starts playing black music due to MJ
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Big Mama Thornton Dead
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Madonna breakthrough "Like A Virgin" album
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Northern lights perform "Tears are not enough"
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Prince forms own "Paisley Park" Music company
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Madonna controversy "Like A Prayer" burning crosses
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Black unemployment = 20%
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Madonna lashing out in "Justify My Love" against critics
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Prince changes name to a symbol for a while