The valley is the part-time home of former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant who has a farm house estate in the vale, and it has become something of a pilgrimage site for fans.

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All of baseball pulled a Robert Johnson, as in the legend of the classic blues singer who supposedly got his gift for music by making a pact with the devil.

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Dr Robert Waldman testified that records from Jackson's dermatologist show the singer was receiving large doses of the drug in the months ahead of his death.

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Bass player Chris Chew rounds out the group, who've just released their sixth CD: Electric Blue Watermelon, which includes a duet with singer Lucinda Williams and contributions from pedal-steel phenom Robert Randolph.

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Rose, Nannice Rose, Nola Royster, Barbara Anne Rudolph, Billie Rutherford, Skip Rutherford, Deborah Sale, Mary Ann Salmon, Carolyn Schauflee, Louie Schauflee, Marty Schauflee, Michael Schauflee, Charlotte Schexnayder, Melvin Schexnayder, Mary Schroeder, Robert Schroeder, Dr. Joanna Seibert, Lottie Shackleford, Erin Shockley, Leslie Singer, Noah Singer, Donald Sjostrand, Rev.

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Robert Santelli, the executive director of The GRAMMY Museum, and Smokey Robinson, the legendary Motown singer, will facilitate the workshop with performances by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers in the 1960s who traveled around the country carrying stories in song of local Civil Rights Movement campaigns to national audiences.

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Rock musicians, from Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant to Bono to Tori Amos to Elvis Costello, all believed that Jeff Buckley was the most gifted singer of his generation.

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According to The Times newspaper, the singer has given various accounts of how he adopted the name Dylan in place of his birth name, Robert Zimmerman.

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