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In the decades since, they have achieved six platinum albums and many more Top 10 singles with their unique approach to blue-eyed soul.

The new class represents a broad array of musical styles and genres, including country, hip-hop, rap-rock, R&B, art pop, folk-rock, dance music and blue-eyed soul.

Keltner gently swings the song’s rhythm, which adds a hint of blue-eyed soul; Wright’s vocal is airy but impassioned — a little frayed at the edges, as though he knows the dream is destined to end.

Rocking a Jimmy Buffett tee in tribute to the late mayor of Margaritaville, who died a day earlier, Dip frontman Tom Eddy and the blue-eyed soul brigade serenaded a still-gathering crowd with cool-breezing numbers like “Atlas,” with Eddy’s honeyed vocals helping festival goers ease into a bustling Seattle Center campus.

Then, as the year came to an end, a U.K. import cracked U.S. radio: the well-coiffed, white-teethed, infectiously bubbly duo Wham!, with its throwback blue-eyed soul hit “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.”