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- ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
- ↑ "Music: Top 100 Songs – Billboard Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
- ↑ "YouTube: Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right, Live Chastain Park, Atlanta, Georgia. July 2013"
- ↑ "The Road to Moonlight Feels Right". bruceblackman.com.
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- ↑ "Members of Georgia Bands Starbuck, Sea Level Pass Away in June". Georgia Music. July 1, 2017. Archived from the original on March 5, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Clark, Matthew C. "Bo Wagner (Starbuck) dies". EricCarmen.com. Retrieved June 26, 2017.
- ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 290. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
