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Aristus

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15. Critics are talking about his fusion of pop and New Wave.

Sun Sep 15, 2019, 09:36 PM

Sep 2019

But I can't count how many of his songs sound like something Buddy Holly might have written and sang if he hadn't died so young.

Anyone else hear Holly in songs like "Just What I Needed" or "My Best Friend's Girl"?

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