Playboy's 2003 Music Poll Winners

April, 2003

Here's the music playboy readers can't get out of their heads-or their cd playersHall of FameRun-DMC's influence on music is as profound as Elvis' or the Beatles'. As the Seventies unfolded into the Eighties the airwaves were, with limited exception, a vapid wasteland of postdisco New Wave swill. Around this time I was licking my wounds in a hospital bed, recovering from a motorcycle accident and a badly bruised ego from sagging record sales and the looming breakup of our band. I seriously quest...

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