Elsewhere on the huge site will be performances by 1970s disco pioneers Chic, Tom Tom Club, hip-hop giants Public Enemy, Dinosaur Jr, The Horrors and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

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The Sierra Club, the anti-climate change consortium 350.org, and the civil rights organization the Hip Hop Caucus put together the rally.

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The Gates response to these numbers reminds me of a hip-hop song Positive K recorded 18 years ago, in which a cute girl in a club keeps telling him she already has a man, and he responds.

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