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British pop phenomenon, theSpice Girls, makes millionswith mega-hits suchas "Wannabe" and sells 14 millionalbums and 10millionsingles.

Adam Yauch of Lhe Beastie Boys engineers the second 1lbetan Freedom Concert, held in June in New York, offering 27 musicacts and a free-1lbet political message.

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Third Eye Blind, after several years in San Francisco's underground music scene, goes big lime in 1997. Their song "Semi-Charmed Life" is listed as U1e lop-selling modern rock single for 1997 in Billboard magazine.

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Thealbum No Woy Out by Puff Daddv & the Family goes mulliplalinum. Puffy's single ··1·11 BeMissing You," an elegy lo his friend the Notorious B.I.G., also lops the charts.

Sixteen-year-old R&B phenom Jonny Lang opens for the Rolling Stones' fall Lour and spends 16 weeks at No. I on Billboard's blues chart with his album lie lo Me.

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ft a ,h Metallica releases a seventh album, Re-Load, that confinns its position as the premier heavy-metal band in the music world. Radiohead is Spin magazine's Band of the Year. Critics praise Radiohead's album OK Computer, variously described as haunting, revolting, inscrutable, stunning and gorgeous. The album receives a 1998 Grammy nomination for Rock/Pop Album of the Year.

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