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Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.

1967

Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)

There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.

Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...

Edmund Patrick Cahill was born January 15 1978 in New York to parents of Irish and Italian descent. He is 6' 2". His Irish father is a stockbroker and his mother is an elementary school teacher. He has one older and one younger sister. Eddie graduated from Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York, in 1986. Other famous attendees of this school are Eyal Podell and Sean Maher. He also attended Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and the Atlantic Theater Acting School, which is part of the Tisch School of the Arts at Nyu. When he was in kindergarten, Eddie aspired to be a farmer. His big break came in the Summer Theater Festival at Vassar College. Eddie finally dropped out of Nyu and moved to Brooklyn in pursuit of a full time acting career. He dreamt of becoming an actor after he saw Les Miserables at the tender age of 17. Says Eddie:...