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FATS DOMINO · 1955
NEW ORLEANS, USA
Behind the sunniest piano triplets in 1950s America sits a song about being betrayed and refusing to beg — a man watching love walk out and …
JOÃO GILBERTO · 1959
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
On the surface it is a lover begging his sadness to go and fetch back the woman who left him, but the real story is that two minutes of whis…
RITCHIE VALENS · 1958
VERACRUZ, MEXICO
The teenager who turned "La Bamba" into rock and roll reportedly barely spoke Spanish — he learned the words phonetically from relatives — a…