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Also Known As R & B

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Ike and Tina Turner perform onstage in 1964; Ike plays a white Fender Stratocaster guitar while Tina sings into a microphone, with band members and instruments in the background.
Charles Brown smiling and wearing a light-colored suit, posed at a piano with one hand on the keys in a black and white portrait.
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