This Best of 2019 list includes both Yes and their former drummer Bill Bruford, and Toto and their former drummer Simon Phillips, among others.

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Linda Ronstadt gained some of her earliest national exposure working with Neil Young, singing backup on 1972’s “Heart of Gold.”

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