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"When the late Rob Tyner of the MC5 implored his listeners to &amp;quot;kick out the jams!,&amp;quot; he was barking on behalf of all the great rock &amp;amp; roll musicians yet to come from his hometown. In Detroit, they&amp;apos;ve been turning out an assembly line of ass-kickers with guitars since the heyday of the Studebaker. The fourth-largest city in the U.S. in the Fifties, known as the &amp;quot;Paris of the West&amp;quot; for its impressive architecture, Detroit began a long, excruciating decline to its present crisis. But for all its troubles &amp;#x2013; or maybe as a result of them &amp;#x2013; the city has never lost its rock &amp;amp; roll spirit. Here are the local legends who defined the sound of the city, from the postwar boogie of John Lee Hooker to the postmodern blues of the White Stripes.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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