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Carlton Douglas RidenhourA great classic book @guyoseary #OnTheRecord over 150 Music Biz folks open their opinions and experiences https://t.co/X9kR5Bnpjk (Source)

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Come and Get These Memories

The Story of Holland-Dozier-Holland

Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history.
Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with 15 of these reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. No other songwriting team or individual has come close to equaling, let alone surpassing, this record. They’ve been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
As tunesmiths for the legendary Motown Record Corporation, and for their own corporations, Invictus...
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Carlton Douglas RidenhourYet another brilliant ⁦@ClassicMotown⁩ book #ComeAndGetTheseMemories The Genius Of Holland Dozier Holland wow @motown history can be a weekly Tv series not merely a film where they already got many biopics ⁦@HollandDozier⁩ also MickeyStevenson book was no joke either https://t.co/fzdUdj5M1K (Source)

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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour.@ClaudeAnderso #PayAttention 2020 decade a must . https://t.co/3YIzAm5J8y and All his other books (Source)

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Together Forever

The Run-DMC and Beastie Boys Photographs

"People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They were good! They made amazing records!...Rap parallels punk rock: Destroy everything that came before it and borrow little bits to help you get there. Bring it full circle: it helps us understand how and why these two groups did what they did, and why Glen E. brings us into the picture deeper than anyone and brings it all together. Forever. These photographs inspire and excite us to this day." -- Chris Rock

"Run-DMC were...
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Carlton Douglas Ridenhour@glenefriedman and sun Enzo at @Yankees game sporting one of best T-shirt’s I designed with my top graphic bro Kelvin Fonville. I designed from 1986-1993 Kelvin has been working with me 25 years ..btw Glen is exploding with newest book Together Forever in 3 weeks so get it! https://t.co/falMljjb7Z (Source)

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Back in the Days

Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989--before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry. Back in the days, gangs would battle not with guns, but by breakdancing. Back in the days, the streets--not corporate planning--set the standards for style. Back in the days, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, photographing everyday people hangin' in Harlem, kickin' it in Queens, and cold chillin' in Brooklyn.

Street styling with an attitude not seen in fashion for another twenty years to come, Shabazz's subjects strike poses...
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Carlton Douglas RidenhourClassick NYC early 80s by Jamel Shabazz book Back In The Days....IMO the Government allowed drugs & Guns in the black community to destroy peace harmony and love RT https://t.co/5s3rFCvVH3 (Source)

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