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Monday, April 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Rolling Stone hits the big 4-0

The list-loving music magazine picks the 40 songs "that changed the world" as part of its 40th-birthday celebration.

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  • Monday, April 23, 2007 03:20 PM

    Rolling Stone missed one

    Their list makes much of the songs that would NOT have been written or the artists who might not have followed were it not these trailblazers.

    So how come no Muddy Waters? Because without McKinley Morganfield, the magazine itself (to say nothing of Mick and the lads) would have had to come up with a whole different name.

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