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FILE-- Curtis Mayfield is shown in this undated handout photo. The composer and songwriter, whose string of hits "Superfly," "People Get Ready,'' "Talking About My Baby,'' and "Keep On Pushing,'' has died Sunday, Dec. 26, 1999. Mayfield was 57.(AP Photo/Curtom Records, ho) (Associated Press)

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