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The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It's the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray.

Inside these pages, you'll find a world of ideas, facts, and opinions. It's a world in which Baudelaire flows on from the Basement Tapes and A.S. Byatt looks out at the Byrds in which Far from the Madding Crowd follows Ezekiel and Bob Geldof introduces Jean Genet and in which Hank and William Carlos Williams stand side by side while J.R.R. Tolkien trails the Titanic. Most of all, of course, it's a world in which everyone and everything interconnects, in endlessly fascinating ways, with one of our greatest living artists: Bob Dylan.

"Michael Gray... probably Dylan's single most assiduous critic." -New York Review of Books

"Fans of Bob Dylan have a multitude of choices when it comes to biographies and retrospectives, but author Michael Gray outdistances them all with this voluminous collection of all things Dylan. ... Insightful and entertaining, Gray's tome will broaden appreciation of the artist, his influences and his legacy." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"...has all you need to know, and more" -Richard Corliss, Time

"This is no mere catalog of facts, but a work of oceanic immersion. It has wit, opinion, style, and asks to be read, not just consulted." -Village Voice

"Deeply impressive...destined to be the most important Dylan book, bar none."-Gerry Smith, The Dylan Daily

"Utterly idiosyncratic." -Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Amazingly well-researched and surprisingly readable work." -Library Journal (starred review)

"Door-stopping detail." -Toronto Star

"Magnificent...won't just astonish readers with its detail about Dylan's work...contains so many insights and refutes so many myths about the rock 'n' roll era in general that it's invaluable as both a reference guide and a personality study." -Nashville City Paper

"Comprehensive and up-to-date." -Slate



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More than five hundred black-and-white and color photographs, trivia, and behind-the-scenes reminiscences document the entire career of the Beatles, from their early days together, through their rise to success, to their pursuit of separate paths. 40,000 first printing.


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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick

Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians, Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2015-11-09T17:00:00+00:00


SAM WAS BUSY getting Jerry’s first album ready for release. He wasn’t going to put his three biggest hits on it (this was a common strategy at the time—the idea was that if you included hits on an album, it might diminish the sale of singles) but instead a wide assortment of Jerry’s music, from “Crazy Arms,” his first record, to a new, rollicking version of “Matchbox Blues” to “Goodnight, Irene.”

“Jerry Lee’s version of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’ will probably strike you as something quite out of the ordinary,” wrote Sam, who conceded that “it probably seems a little unusual for a record manufacturer to write his own liner notes” but put it down to unabashed admiration for his artist. “Only a southerner who has attended camp meetings or other revival-type gatherings,” he pointed out in his encomium to both performer and performance, “can fully appreciate the quality of fervor and abandonment that Jerry Lee gives to this selection.” He planned to release the album at the end of June, soon after Jerry got back from a six-week English tour, and he was optimistic enough to order a hundred thousand slicks of the cover printed up.

The English tour was the first real sign of the entrepreneurial legerdemain of Oscar Davis, whom Sam had installed as Jerry’s manager the previous October in a kind of byzantine partnership that had Becky as Sam’s stand-in in the operation. Davis, whom Sam had always been fond of, was an impresario of the old school, with his jaunty boutonniere, elegant cigarette holder, and drawling Boston accent—he had in fact introduced Elvis’ manager, Tom Parker, to his prospective client while doing advance work for the Colonel during a period of temporary financial impecuniosity. This English tour from Oscar’s point of view was only the start of what he was certain would be his crowning achievement. They had at least thirty-seven dates booked and could reasonably anticipate grossing close to $100,000. From Sam’s point of view the tour would unquestionably sell, but, much more important, it would serve to cement Jerry Lee’s growing worldwide reputation. With Elvis in the army, Little Richard recently enrolled in Bible college, and no direct pipeline to Mamie Lewis’ opinions, news reports were increasingly prone to anoint Jerry Lee Lewis as the uncrowned “king of rock ’n’ roll.” Sam didn’t give a damn about titles—you could characterize him any way you liked, but you couldn’t categorize him. As Sam saw it, Jerry Lee Lewis had not even begun to realize his full artistic or commercial potential. There was no question that he stood on the brink of a limitless future.


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Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll by Colin Escott
Author:Colin Escott [Escott, Colin] , Date: March 11, 2015 ,Views: 92
Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth of Rock 'N' Roll by Colin Escott

After a short hospital stay, Perkins was back in Memphis at the beginning of April 1956. The huge Chrysler that was ruined in his wreck had been a loaner from Southern Motors while Carl awaited the delivery of his obligatory Cadillac. Rarely one to miss a photo opportunity, Sam Phillips handed him the keys to the shiny new blue ’56 Fleetwood as he and Perkins stood at the dealership on April 11. Perkins told the press that the car was a gift from Phillips, who had sworn that the first artist to sell a million copies of a record on Sun would receive a Cadillac. “Carl says he’ll drive it mighty careful,” said the report in the Memphis Press Scimitar—although the car would be wrecked on August 29 near Brownsville, Tennessee, when Perkins was speeding.

Perkins resolved that he would not go back on the road before his wife had given birth to their third child, but the pressure from promoters grew too intense. With Jay still in the hospital, Carl hit the road as part of a Big D Jamboree package working out of Dallas. His booking fee was as high as fifteen hundred dollars a night. Perry Como held the invitation open for Perkins to appear on the show, but Perkins would not fulfill the engagement until Jay was ready to perform. They eventually worked the Como show with Jay sporting a neck brace.

“Boppin’ the Blues,” the follow-up to “Blue Suede Shoes,” was released in May. Intended to capture the essence of the new music, instead it showed how closely Perkins was tied to the country tradition. By contrast, Elvis Presley’s second RCA record, “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You,” fit no known definition of country music. “Boppin’ the Blues” reached number 9 in the country charts, but did no more than dart in and out of the lowest reaches of the pop charts while Presley’s song jumped straight to the top.



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The 00individual Counter-Culture Compendium 1960's and 1970's Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Volume 1 - The 1960s: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll by 00individual
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The 00individual Counter-Culture Compendium 1960's and 1970's Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Volume 1 - The 1960s: Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll by 00individual


EXPERIENCE PSYCHEDELIC HARD ROCK BLUES HISTORY!

JEFF BECK – TRUTH Epic BN 26413 - August 1968

Here is one of 00individual’s personal Top 20 all-time favorite Rock albums; a truly Historic and Classic album which indelibly stamps the winter of ’69 at the beach as one of the best times of his life. While within his Top 20 it seriously may be in his Top Ten - or maybe even the greatest Rock album ever!

“Truth” was how 00individual felt; liberated, young, cool, free, hip, rebellious, righteous, and filled with the Spirit of Rock ‘n’ Roll. “Truth” created a dreamy, misty, mind-bending and mind-blowing beach-in-the-winter rockin’ atmosphere in a fantastic world where just being alive to experience the assured daily adventures was thrilling.

Jeff Beck, straight from another top favorite band of 00individual’s, The Yardbirds, stepped-up and electrified-in-stone his place in Rock with Truth which began a highly successful life-long career as a True Guitar God and a proven innovator and genre-fusing solo artist.

Beck generously and notoriously gives others the chance in the spotlight as he does here with Rod Stewart, who gets to showcase his vocals extraordinaire. Ron Wood on bass (who would later again join up with Rod on his solo ventures and with the Faces before becoming a Stone) and Micky Waller on drums (who performed and recorded with all the heavies) and with guest drummers Keith Moon and Aynsley Dunbar made for a tight band with Nicky Hopkins tickling the ivories and John Paul Jones on Hammond organ and Jimmy Page's signature touch.

Everyone has their own personal feelings and attachments to their own favorite albums and artists, but Truth, like Them’s self-titled album both feel as a part of 00individual, its weird - but it is what it is. It trips him out when music that someone creates then becomes an entity unto itself and then becomes a part of his life to the point that his being yearns for it, understands it, loves it - it’s like finding a soul mate. Maybe this sounds crazy, or maybe 00individual is just expressing what all Rock ‘n’ Rollers and all Music Lovers feel, if so, then they are all a very fortunate group to be able to be moved in this way by Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Every track is perfect and together makes one of the most important historic and classic Rock albums of all time -Truth!

1. "Shapes of Things" - Jim McCarty, Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith 3:22 Love The Yardbirds with Keith Relf, but Jeff and Rod make this their own - sounds like they’ve been playing together for years.

2. "Let Me Love You" - Jeffrey Rod 4:44 Cock-sure delivery and great repartee between Rod and Jeff. Feels like crusin’ the sleazy part of town or just drivin’ my poor heart crazy.

3. "Morning Dew" - Bonnie Dobson 4:40 00individual was familiar with this as a folk song; electrified, it seems even more relevant with the pain and sorrow that Rod soulfully layers on while Jeff warms up on the wah-wah – it is sadly beautiful.

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"A tremendously insightful biography of the man who helmed the Velvet Underground and single-handedly created alternative rock This book covers not only the highlights of Reed's career, but explores lesser-known facets of his work, such as his first recordings with doo-wop group the Jades, his key literary influences, the impact of Judaism upon his work, and his engagement with the LGBT movement. Drawing from original interviews with many of his artistic collaborators, friends, and romantic partners, as well as from archival material, concert footage, and unreleased bootlegs of live performances, Dirty Blvd. exposes the man behind the myth, the notoriously uncompromising rock poet who wrote songs that transcended their genre and established himself as one of the most influential and engmatic American artists of the past half century"

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The Fender Stratocaster: The Life & Times of the World's Greatest Guitar & Its Players

2013 | English | ISBN-10: 0760344841, ISBN-13: 978-0760344842 | 240 pages | True PDF | 95.12 MB
Fender’s Stratocaster is arguably the number-one instrument icon of the guitar world. When introduced in 1954, its offset space-age lines, contoured body, and three-pickup configuration set the music world on its ear—it was truly unlike any guitar that had come before. In the hands of the world’s most beloved players, the Stratocaster has since become a popular weapon of choice among rock, blues, jazz, and country players and, not coincidentally, is also one of the most copied electric guitars of all time.

In this authoritatively written, painstakingly curated, and gloriously presented tribute to the 60-year-old Fender Stratocaster, author Dave Hunter covers the guitar’s history from concept, design, and model launch through its numerous variations and right up to the present. The story is illustrated with archival images of Stratocasters and their players in action, studio shots of Stratocasters of varied vintage and provenance, memorabilia associated with famous players, and profiles of over 30 noted Strat slingers through the ages. Influential rock’n’ rollers like Buddy Holly, Hank Marvin, Ike Turner, and Dick Dale; blues players like Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, and John Mayer; metal gods Richie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Dave Murray; esteemed rockers Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Ronnie Wood, Robbie Robertson, Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, and Wayne Kramer; and post-punk heroes The Edge, John Frusciante, and Billy Corgan are all included. And so, of course, is Jimi Hendrix. With its unprecedented level of detail and stunning visuals, The Fender Stratocaster is the only book tribute worthy of the world’s greatest guitar.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber - Unmasked: A Memoir 2019

544 стр., 45 Мб (486 стр. и 29 Мб после конвертации в PDF), EPUB

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nglish | March 19th, 2019 | ISBN: 1947856901 | 312 pages | EPUB | 1.76 MB
Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his sixtieth birthday. Now, on the heels of Berry's death, comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons.

Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director— Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist. Berry was at once a witty, articulate genius, now widely considered the godfather of rock and roll; a shrewd businessman, who had no trouble endlessly renegotiating contracts and refusing to perform until additional cash was gathered up; and also a convicted criminal, who in addition to serving time in prison for transporting a minor across state lines for "immoral purposes" had also been accused of sexual assault and sued in civil court for installing cameras in the restroom of the Southern Air, a restaurant he owned in Wentzville, Missouri.

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All About History – Iconic Moments of the Sixties 2018

All About History – Iconic Moments of the Sixties 2018

Overview: The Sixties was a decade unlike any other. Some look back nostalgically at the counterculture and revolution in social norms about dress, drugs, sexuality and formalities, while others only see irresponsible excess and the decay of social order. We can only imagine how different the world would be today if the Berlin Wall had never been built, the first human heart transplant was never undertaken, or the contraceptive pill never made available to the public.
Throughout Iconic Moments of the Sixties you’ll see some of the most important political and social events in history brought to life through evocative imagery and expertly written features. Discover the pop culture sensations that gave the Sixties a swinging soundtrack and drove the crowds wild, from The Beatles to the The Beach Boys. From the elections of John F Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the progression of the Civil Rights movement under Martin Luther King Jr. and the climax of the Space Race, we’ve collected a wealth of important entries that span both continents and cultures.

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Margrave of the Marshes

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Few albums in the canon of popular music have had the influence, resonance, and endurance of John Coltrane's 1965 classic A Love Supreme-a record that proved jazz was a fitting medium for spiritual exploration and for the expression of the sublime. Bringing the same fresh and engaging approach that characterized his critically acclaimed Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, Ashley Kahn tells the story of the genesis, creation, and aftermath of this classic recording. Featuring interviews with more than one hundred musicians, producers, friends, and family members unpublished interviews with Coltrane and bassist Jimmy Garrison and scores of never-before-seen photographs, A Love Supreme balances biography, cultural context, and musical analysis in a passionate and revealing portrait.


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The story of the notorious rock and roll manager, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest bands in music history.

Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of both groupsnot to mention Sam Cooke, Pete Townshend, Donovan, The Kinks, and numerous othershe taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars.

While Klein made millions for his clients, he was as merciless with them as he was with anyone, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Kleins archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and the music business became what it is today.

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, womens presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, had always been as vocalists. This sudden influx of female musicians into the male domain of rock music was brought about by the enabling ethic of punk rock (anybody can do it!) and by the impact of the Sex Discrimination Act. With the demise of the punk scene, interest in these musicians evaporated and other priorities became important to music audiences. This book investigates the social and commercial reasons why these women became lost from the rock music record, and rewrites this period of popular music history. In addition to a wealth of original interview material with key protagonists, including the late John Peel, Geoff Travis, The Raincoats and Poison Girls, this new edition has been updated to include interviews with members of Birmingham-based band The Au Pairs, Leeds-based band Delta 5 and Viv Albertine of The Slits. Lucy Whitman (aka Lucy Toothpaste), who started the fanzine Jolt and later wrote for Spare Rib, also provides enlightening words on the relationship between female punk band members and feminism. The author also draws on her own experience as bass-player in a punk band.
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Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life. In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Deborah Curtis, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Paul Morley, Alan Hempsall, Lesley Gilbert, Terry Mason, Anik Honore, and many more. It is the story of how a band resurrected a city, how they came together in circumstances that are both accidental and extraordinary, and how their music galvanised a generation of fans, artists and musicians. It is a classic story of how young men armed with electric guitars and good taste in literature can change the world with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist. This searing light, the sun and everything else presents the history of Joy Division in an intimate and candid way, as orchestrated by the lodestar of British music writing, Jon Savage.


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On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time

In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band’s leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, or Elvis Presley. Danny worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt’s life. This key time saw the stratospheric success of Nevermind, which turned Nirvana into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt’s meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt’s public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Danny stood by Kurt’s side as manager, and close friend.

Drawing on Goldberg’s own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt’s close family, friends, and former bandmates, Serving the Servants sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, Serving the Servants is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought—one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Danny Goldberg explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn’t alive until after Kurt’s death. In the process, he provides a portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.

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“A must for CSNY fans.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of “rock’s first supergroup” (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America—in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock and the formation of the band itself.

1969 to 1974 were true golden years of rock n’ roll, bookmarking an era of arguably unparalleled musical power and innovation. But even more than any of their eminent peers, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young channeled and broadcast all the radical anger, romantic idealism, and generational angst of their time. Each of the members had already made their marks in huge bands (The Hollies, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds), but together, their harmonies were transcendent.

The vast emotional range of their music, from delicate acoustic confessionals to raucous counter-culture anthems, was mirrored in the turbulence of their personal lives. Their trademark may have been vocal harmony, but few—if any—of their contemporaries could match the recklessness of their hedonistic and often combative lifestyles, when the four tenacious, volatile, and prodigal songwriters pursued chemical and sexual pleasure to life-threatening extremes.

Including full color photographs, CSNY chronicles these four iconic musicians and the movement they came to represent, concentrating on their prime as a collective unit and a cultural force: the years between 1969, when Woodstock telegraphed their arrival to the world, and 1974, when their arch-enemy Richard Nixon was driven from office, and the band (to quote Graham Nash himself) “lost it on the highway.”

Even fifty years later, there are plenty of stories left to be told about Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—and music historian Peter Doggett is here to bring them to light in the meticulously researched CSNY, a quintessential and illuminative account of rock’s first supergroup in their golden hour for die-hard fans, nostalgic flower-children, and music history aficionados alike.

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An in-depth biography of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page by the acclaimed biographer of Bob Marley and Joe Strummer, based upon the author's extensive research and interviews

The original enigmatic rock star, Jimmy Page is a mass of contradictions. A towering presence in the guitar world and one of the most revered rock guitarists of all time, in private he is reclusive and mysterious, retiring and given to esoteric interests. Over the decades he has exchanged few words to the press given the level of his fame, and an abiding interest in the demonic and supernatural has only made the myth more potent.

But in the midst of this maelstrom, who was Jimmy Page? Rock journalist Chris Salewicz has conducted numerous interviews with Page over the years and has created the first portrait of the guitarist that can be called definitive, penetrating the shadows that surround him to reveal the fascinating man who dwells within the rock legend.

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Перевод биографии Генри Роллинза (Black Flag)
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One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player.
A singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, Dixon's work influenced countless artists across the music spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi Inaba examines Dixon's career, from his earliest recordings with the Five Breezes through his major work with Chess Records and Cobra Records.

Focusing on Dixon's work on the Chicago blues from the 1940s to the early 1970s, this book details the development of Dixon's songwriting techniques from his early professional career to his mature period and compares the compositions he provided for different artists. This volume also explores Dixon's philosophy of songwriting and its social, historical, and cultural background. This is the first study to discuss his compositions in an African American cultural context, drawing upon interviews with his family and former band members. This volume also includes a detailed list of Dixon's session work, in which his compositions are chronologically organized.

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