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Covering "Dirty Diana" by Michael Jackson, The Weeknd showed the world his vocal range, delivering a beautiful cover to this classic (Mackk, 2022). Abel is heavily influenced by Jackson, with his latest album "Dawn FM", songs like "Sacrifice" and "Out of Time" are sings of respect to Quincy Jones producing Jackson's "Bad", amongst many other hits.

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“I've been inspired by The Wall and Purple Rain,” said The Weeknd (Gonzalez, 2023). Sporting a bright red suit that looks eerily similar to Prince's famous purple suit, The Weeknd regularly shows creative respect to his influences through his music.

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The Weeknd's album "Starboy" is a nod to David Bowie's "Starman" and in 2016 Abel (The Weekbnd) stated to Rolling Stone “I just love Bowie; I think he's the ultimate inventor,” (Reed, 2016). Both acting out their creative alter ego artistry in their music, Abel's style in stage performances, album themes and even clothing scream Bowie.

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Pink Floyd was majorly influenced by Jimi Hendrix, they were the opening acts for Jimi Hendrix in his 1967 tour (Polcaro, 2022). Their music is often categorised as psychedelic rock, coupled with the themes of that era - they embodied and promoted love, peace and away from corporate greed.

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Making music in the same era as the band Pink Floyd was monumental for Eric Clapton's success in rock and roll, the blues and songwriting. Both Pink Floyd and Clapton created their music in amongst the 1960's and onwards, often imitating each other in their melodic guitar journeys with songs like "Cocaine" and "Breathe (In the Air)" (Taysom, 2021).

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Both The Beatles and Pink Floyd recorded albums in Abbey Roads Studio in the UK at the same time (Wardle, 2022). Their songs are often of similar nature, expressing deep emotional lyrics with chanting singing. Synonymous of rock and roll music in the 1960's, 70's. These bands are the foundation of the rock genre.

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Logic's song "Mos Definitely" is flag of respect to Mos Def, a major influence of Logics expressions in Hip-Hop (Genius, 2017). Mos Def, a singer/songwriter, promoted love, acceptance and racial equality in his music. Logic has taken great inspiration from Mos Def, citing only citing Mos Def as his main Hip-Hop influence (Shaheed Muhammad & Kelley, 2015).

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Logics cites frank Sinatra as his main creative influence in life and music. Logic's second mixtape titled "Young Sinatra" album art featured a youthful yet rebellious Frank Sinatra (in one of his infamous mug shots), ultimately expressing respect for Sinatra and his renowned music works (Genius, 2018).

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Logics 2019 song "Lemon Drop" is a clear ode to The Red hot Chilli Peppers (Selleck, 2019), its main guitar three beat melody and strong electric bass guitar back beat make it sound similar to RHCP song "Zephyr". Imitation is a form of flattery and Logic has shown his RHCP many a time over (IMDb, 2013).

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I am influenced by Logic's altruistic music expression, his 2017 Hip-Hop song "1-800-273-8255" was created to help prevent suicides in the USA (Niederkrotenthaler et al., 2021) by promoting Lifeline's number in the song. Along with the help of facilitators and researchers, Logics song proved to reduce suicide rates by 5.5% during the research period.

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I am positively influenced by the aesthetic, simplistic style of The Weeknd's songs and beats (Bauer, 2023). 'Starboy' first caught my attention to The Weeknd, the vocal acrobatics and dramatic song lyrics create an all encompassing audio-visual trance that sparked inspiration to do my own art.

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Growing up, Pink Floyd was almost always playing from my parents radios. Whether in the car, at home or on holidays: Pink Floyd was rocking on. I am particularly influenced by their manipulations of string instruments and their sounds, mainly the electric guitar (slides, bending of the neck etc.) and ensemble/quartet strings. They brought psychedelic to rock and with "Dark Side of The Moon" (Jones, 2017), it opened my mind to listening to albums as a whole. I am deeply influenced by the fantastical journey their albums.