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May 11, 2021

2002 was a big year for Norah Jones, whose "Come Away With Me" cleaned up by winning five Grammys. Wilco delivered the most critically acclaimed album of their career. Missy Elliott worked it. Justin Timberlake went solo, and "The Eminem Show" was the biggest-selling album of the year. File sharing and Napster were changing music consumption. It was the Bush Presidency and the windup to the Gulf War.

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