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How 'Don't Stop Believin'' Became Such a Monster Hit

Steven R Rosen, American Songwriter, November 2010

POP STARS OF disparate ages and musical styles, when forced to share a stage, can be as awkward together as "strangers waiting up and down the boulevard". They need a song to bring them together – and the one they choose, if it works, can have all the pop-culture portent of a classic TV show's finale.

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