New York quartet's first trio of albums and inaugural tour
formed the backbone of modern punk
Robert Redford
Rare Hollywood class act
Rembrandt
Old master of light and shade
Ren & Stimpy
The best damned animated duo since
Fred & Barney... and far funnier
Renoir
Perhaps the greatest impressionist of them all
The Replacements
Ragged, influential 80s punk co-op imploded before its time
Jonathan Richman
Brilliantly bizarre, Boston-based singer-songwriter
Paul Robeson
Oft-controversial professional athlete, attorney, folk singer,
actor, writer, communist sympathizer and civil rights activist.
Smokey Robinson
R&B's poet laureate
Jimmie Rodgers
Godfather of country music
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New deal architect and World War, too