This new agenda is best articulated in the soulful "Circulate, " in which Jeezy laments rising gas prices and unemployment rates alongside vocal samples of Billy Paul's prescient 1975 album cut "Let the Dollar Circulate".

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Ramone's collaboration with Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon won a total of three Album Of The Year awards, and Ramone won Producer Of The Year (non-classical) in 1980, The Recording Academy said.

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Over the years, celebrities like Neil Diamond, Elton John, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Billy Crystal and Rod Stewart have all headlined his events.

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Two other concerts -- one in New York, featuring Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, and many others, and another in Nashville -- also contributed to the benefit effort.

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The Belgian-born Thielemans has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and many others.

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In Nashville, Billy Jack was not thinking about the trees felled to craft his new Les Paul.

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Meanwhile, plenty of other celebrity talking heads (Judd Apatow, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, and whiskered ZZ Top musicians Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons among them) happily contribute to the conversation's inherent humor.

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