This Week in Music History: December 23 - 29 -- RIP James Brown, Creed's Crap Concert, Led Zeppelin Hit USA

Posted on Dec 28th 2012 4:00PM by Aaron Brophy
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There are a number of ways musicians can also become great showmen.

People like Madonna use costume changes, elaborate stages and a legion of dancers, a band like Gwar sprays fake blood and goo across the audience while fighting animatronic monster things, and Bruce Springsteen does it by playing actual songs for for four hours.

This week in music history we experienced an uncomfortable yo-yo effect of losing one of the best at this art, while also having to deal with one of the worst.

To learn who we're talking about, and to also find out what the New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin and Cat Stevens did that was so historically important just click to launch the gallery below.

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