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2/7 -- Birthday Quiz: Country Star

There's sure to be some guitar pickin' at today's party.

I was never much of a Garth Brooks (45 today) fan, or a country fan, or a music fan, or a people fan, but I was turned around by the whole "Chris Gaines" thing. No, really, I was impressed. I love separate-identity schtick; what made it especially cool was a bold-faced "VH1 Behind the Music" episode that made up a hilariously dead-on troubled past for Chris Gaines. Supoib. Otherwise, Garth Brooks is one of the most successful recording artists in history, rapidly eclipsing what act in total record sales over an entire career?

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