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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power pop band Foo Fighters has a lot to live up to. The band's singer and chief songwriter, David Grohl, was the drummer for one of the most revered rock bands of the '90s, Nirvana. And although most of the songs on Foo Fighters' eponymous 1995 debut were about as distinctive as taxi cabs, the album did feature a few standout numbers, including the air guitar-worthy This Is a Call. Overall, it was promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT NIRVANA | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...Bonnie Raitt '72. This Grammy-winning country and blues singer had plenty to talk about when she came to campus in May to accept the fifth-annual Harvard Arts First Medal. "I just cannot believe that a rock 'n' rollin', blues singing, rowdy-mouthed political activist would be standing up here at Harvard," she told the crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTS YEAR IN REVIEW | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Twenty-five years ago, Raitt, the Grammy-winning country and blues singer, could have marched with the Class...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Born in 1949 in Burbank, Calif., Raitt attended high school in Hollywood before flying the coop of her famous father, Broadway singer and actor John Raitt, and ending up 3,000 miles away in Radcliffe Yard...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...addition to the 14 solo albums she has released, Raitt has gained a reputation as a "singer's singer," playing the guitar on numerous records of other artists. She has collaborated extensively with artists such as Jackson Browne and Bruce Hornsby...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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