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The BusBoys were a Los Angeles-based rock & roll music group comprised of five African-Americans along with a Hispanic who played satirically upon their ethnic origins in songs with titles like “There Goes a nearby.” These were produced in the past due ’70s using a lineup of brothers Brian O’Neal …

Led by guitarist/vocalist Doug Bennett, the Vancouver-based Doug & the Slugs had been in the forefront of indie Canadian rock and roll for greater than a quarter of a hundred years. While their debut record, 1980’s Cognac and Bologna, continues to be the peak of the career (it marketed a …

Like Expenses Cosby and Richard Pryor before him, Eddie Murphy was the preeminent African-American comic of his period; actually, Murphy was probably the preeminent comic from the 1980s, period — at his maximum, no additional performer, no matter competition, was a larger celebrity or a far more audacious skill. Merging …