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There are, at least, five artists known as Rockwell.

1) A pseudonym of Kenneth Gordy, from Detroit, MI, USA, the son of Motown Records founder, Berry Gordy. He changed his name so as to avoid charges of nepotism, wanting to make it in the music business on his talent alone. He signed to Motown as a solo artist without his father’s knowledge, taking his name from his high school band. His first single, the Michael Jackson-esque “Somebody’s Watching Me,” which featured backing vocals from both Michael and Jermaine Jackson, shot into the Top Ten, hit number one on the R&B charts, and went gold; only then did he reveal his true identity. This, however, was his peak of success; the follow-up single fizzled, as did his next album.

A cover of “Somebody’s Watching Me”, by the dance act Beatfreakz, was released in the UK in March 2006, peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart. A cover version of the song was also released by the band Warmen. The Swiss 90is artist DJ Bobo’s first Hit was also a cover version of “Somebody’s Watching Me”. He turned it to “Somebody Dance With Me”.

2) A pseudonym of London, UK producer, Tom Rockwell. He has previously worked with Critical & Renegade Hardware - now signed to Shogun Audio, who put-out his best known release, to date (May 2010), Full Circle / My War (aka Untitled Album).

Sites: Discogs, Musicbrainz & http://SoundCloud.com/Rockwell (official).

3) A German rock band:

4) An early power electronics group that had releases on Broken Flag.
http://www.rockwell-dezibel.de/band.htm
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  • Crusheer

    Everybody - tag as "drum and bass" !

    22 days ago
  • Fooshii

    D:

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  • Theartofstu

    @Fooshii: The charts on artist pages are numbers of users who scrobbled rather than every scrobble :p Good effort though

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  • 0x5f3759df

    lol

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  • dnbilita

    rnb rockwell is a singer of one song.

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  • Fooshii

    Why won't my scrobbles count? :(

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  • Modulent

    Niggers are always better

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  • FragtioN

    Somebody's Watching Me is awesome :D What a catchy melodic chorus!

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