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▓ █ ARTiST : Bob Marley
▒ █ TiTLE : The Revelation (2CD)
░ █ GENRE : Reggae
█ YEAR : 1996
█ LABEL : Mono
█ RELEASE DATE: Mar-07-2003
█ TRACKS # : 48
█ PLAYTiME : 137:03 min
█ LENGTH : 188,7 MB
█ SOURCE : CDDA
█ PROTECTION : None
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▒ █ ENCODER : Radium MP3 Codec v1.263
▓ █ QUALiTY : 192 kbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo
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█ 01 - Soul Shakedown Party 03:00
█ 02 - Stop the Train 02:17
█ 03 - Caution 02:47
█ 04 - Soul Captives 02:00
█ 05 - Go Tell it on the Mountain 03:16
█ 06 - Can't You See 02:43
█ 07 - Soon Come 02:14
█ 08 - Cheer Up 02:04
█ 09 - Back Out 02:14
█ 10 - Do it Twice 02:40
█ 11 - Keep on Moving 03:00
█ 12 - Don't Rock My Boat 04:28
█ 13 - Put it on 02:52
█ 14 - Fussin' and Fightin' 02:28
█ 15 - Duppy Conqueror 03:28
█ 16 - Small Axe 03:44
█ 17 - Riding High 02:23
█ 18 - Kaya 02:32
█ 19 - African Herbman 02:24
█ 20 - Stand Alone 02:09
█ 21 - Sun is Shining 02:05
█ 22 - Brain Washing 02:17
█ 23 - Mr. Brown 03:22
█ 24 - Rebel's Hop 02:30
█ 25 - 400 Years 02:26
█ 26 - Soul Almighty 02:30
█ 27 - Lively Up Yourself 02:39
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█ 01 - Trenchtown Rock 02:54
█ 02 - All in One 03:27
█ 03 - Soul Rebel 03:19
█ 04 - Try Me 02:48
█ 05 - It's Alright 02:32
█ 06 - No Sympathy 01:38
█ 07 - My Cup 03:10
█ 08 - Corner Stone 02:18
█ 09 - No Water 02:03
█ 10 - Reaction 02:41
█ 11 - Rainbow Country 05:46
█ 12 - Kinky Reggae 03:35
█ 13 - Natural Mystic 05:45
█ 14 - There She Goes 02:37
█ 15 - Mellow Mood 02:38
█ 16 - Treat You Right 02:16
█ 17 - Chances Are 03:25
█ 18 - Hammer 02:57
█ 19 - You Can't Do that to Me 02:53
█ 20 - Touch Me 03:09
█ 21 - How Many Times 02:40
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▒ █ Bob Marley was a hero figure, in the classic mythological
█ sense. His departure from this planet came at a point when
█ his vision of One World, One Love - inspired by his belief
█ in Rastafari - was beginning to be heard and felt. The last
█ Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest
█ audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe.
█
█ Bob's story is that of an archetype, which is why it
█ continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance:
█ it embodies political repression, metaphysical and artistic
█ insights, gangland warfare and various periods of mystical
█ wilderness. And his audience continues to widen: to westerners
█ Bob's apocalyptic truths prove inspirational and life-changing;
█ in the Third World his impact goes much further. Not just among
█ Jamaicans, but also the Hopi Indians of New Mexico and the
█ Maoris of New Zealand, in Indonesia and India, and especially
█ in those parts of West Africa from wihch slaves were plucked
█ and taken to the New World, Bob is seen as a redeemer figure
█ returning to lead this planet out of confusion.
█
█ In the clear Jamaican sunlight you can pick out the component
█ parts of which the myth of Bob Marley is comprised: the sadness,
█ the love, the understanding, the Godgiven talent. Those are
█ facts. And although it is sometimes said that there are no facts
█ in Jamaica, there is one more thing of which we can be certain:
█ Bob Marley never wrote a bad song. He left behind the most
█ remarkable body of recorded work. "The reservoir of music he
█ has left behind is like an encyclopedia," says Judy Mowatt of
█ the I-Threes. "When you need to refer to a certain situation
█ or crisis, there will always be a Bob Marley song that will
█ relate to it. Bob was a musical prophet."
█
█ The tiny Third World country of Jamaica has produced an artist
█ who has transcended all categories, classes, and creeds through
█ a combination of innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley,
█ the Natural Mystic, may yet prove to be the most significant
█ musical artist of the twentieth century.
█
█ Bob Marley gave the world brilliant and evocative music; his
█ work stretched across nearly two decades and yet still remains
█ timeless and universal. Bob Marley & the Wailers worked their
█ way into the very fabric of our lives. "He's taken his place
█ alongside James Brown and Sly Stone as a pervasive influence
█ on r&b", says the American critic Timothy White, author of the
█ acclaimed Bob Marley biography 'Catch A Fire'. "His music was
█ pure rock, in the sense that it was a public expression of a
█ private truth." It is important to consider the roots of this
█ legend: the first superstar from the Third World, Bob Marley
█ was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of
█ our time and his music could have been created from only one
█ source: the street culture of Jamaica.
█
█ The days of slavery are a recent folk memory on the island.
█ They have permeated the very essence of Jamaica's culture,
█ from the plantation of the mid-nineteenth century to the
█ popular music of our own times. Although slavery was abolished
█ in 1834, the Africans and their descendants developed their
█ own culture with half-remembered African traditions mingled
█ with the customs of the British.
█
█ This hybrid culture, of course, had parallels with the emerging
█ black society in America. Jamaica, however, remained a rural
█ community which, without the industrialisation of its northern
█ neighbour, was more closely rooted to its African legacy. By
█ the start of the twentieth century that African heritage was
█ given political expression by Marcus Garvey, a shrewd Jamaican
█ preacher and entrepreneur who founded the Universal Negro
█ Improvement Association (UNIA). The organisation advocated the
█ creation of a new black state in Africa, free from white
█ domination. As the first step in this dream, Marcus Garvey
█ founded the Black Star Line, a steamship company which, in
█ popular imagination at least, was to take the black population
█ from America and the Caribbean back to their homeland of Africa.
█
█ A few years later, in 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned
█ Emperor of Ethiopia and took a new name, Haile Selassie, The
█ Emperor claimed to be the 225th ruler in a line that stretched
█ back to Menelik, the son of Solomon and Sheba. The Marcus Garvey
█ followers in Jamaica, consulting their New Testaments for a sign,
█ believed Haile Selassie was the black king whom Garvey had
█ prophesied would deliver the Negro race. It was the start of
█ a new religion called Rastafari.
█
█ Fifteen years later, in Rhoden Hall to the north of Jamaica,
█ Bob Marley was born. His mother was an eighteen-year-old black
█ girl called Cedella Booker while his father was Captain Norval
█ Marley, a 50-year-old white quartermaster attached to the British
█ West Indian Regiment.
█
█ The couple married in 1944 and Robert Nesta Marley was born on
█ February 6, 1945. Norval Marley's family, however, applied constant
█ pressure and, although he provided financial support, the Captain
█ seldom saw his son who grew up in the rural surroundings of
█ St. Ann to the north of the island.
█
█ For country people in Jamaica, the capital Kingston was the city
█ of their dreams, the land of opportunity. The reality was that
█ Kingston had little work to offer, yet through the Fifties and
█ Sixties, people flooded to the city. The newcomers, despite their
█ rapid disillusion with the capital, seldom returned to the rural
█ parishes. Instead, they squatted in the shanty towns that grew up
█ in western Kingston, the most notorious of which was Trenchtown
█ (so named because it was built over a ditch that drained the sewage
█ of old Kingston).
█
█ Bob Marley, barely into his teens, moved to Kingston in the late
█ Fifties. Like many before them, Marley and his mother eventually
█ settled in Trenchtown. His friends were other street youths, also
█ impatient with their place in Jamaican society. One friend in
█ particular was Neville O'Riley Livingston, known as Bunny, with
█ whom Bob took his first hesitant musical steps.
█
█ The two youths were fascinated by the extraordinary music they
█ could pick up from American radio stations. In particular there
█ was one New Orleans station broadcasting the latest tunes by such
█ artists as Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Curtis Mayfield and Brook
█ Benton. Bob and Bunny also paid close attention to the black vocal
█ groups, such as the Drifters, who were extremely popular in Jamaica.
█
█ When Bob quit school he seemed to have but one ambition: music.
█ Although he took a job in a welding shop, Bob spent all his free
█ time with Bunny Wailer, perfecting their vocal abilities. They
█ were helped by one of Trench Town's famous residents, the singer
█ Joe Higgs who held informal lessons for aspiring vocalists in the
█ tenement yards. It was at one of those sessions that Bob and Bunny
█ met Peter Tosh, another youth with big musical ambitions.
█
█ In 1962 Bob Marley auditioned for a local music entrepreneur called
█ Leslie Kong. Impressed by the quality of Bob's vocals, Kong took
█ the young singer into the studio to cut some tracks, the first
█ of which, called "Judge Not", was released on Beverley's label.
█ It was Marley's first record. The other tunes - including "Terror"
█ and "One Cup of Coffee" - received no airplay and attracted little
█ attention. At the very least, however, they confirmed Marley's
█ ambition to be a singer. By the following year Bob had decided the
█ way forward was with a group. He linked up with Bunny and Peter to
█ form The Wailing Wailers.
█
█ The new group had a mentor, a Rastafarian hand drummer called Alvin
█ Patterson, who introduced the youths to Clement Dodd, a record
█ producer in Kingston. In the summer of 1963 Dodd auditioned The
█ Wailing Wailers and, pleased with the results, agreed to record
█ the group.
█
█ It was the time of ska music, the hot new dance floor music with
█ a pronounced back-beat. Its origins incorporated influences from
█ Jamaica's African traditions but, more immediately, from the heady
█ beats of New Orleans' rhythm & blues disseminated from American radio
█ stations and the burgeoning sound systems on the streets of Kingston.
█ Clement - Sir Coxsone - Dodd was one of the city's finest sound
█ system men.
█
█ The Wailing Wailers released their first single, "Simmer Down", on
█ the Coxsone label during the last weeks of 1963. By the following
█ January it was number one in the Jamaican charts, a position it held
█ for the next two months. The group - Bob, Bunny and Peter together
█ with Junior Braithwaite and two back-up singers, Beverly Kelso and
█ Cherry Smith - were big news.
█
█ "Simmer Down" caused a sensation in Jamaica and The Wailing Wailers
█ began recording regularly for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One Company.
█ The groups' music also found new themes, identifying with the Rude Boy
█ street rebels in the Kingston slums. Jamaican music had found a tough,
█ urban stance.
█
█ Despite their popularity, the economics of keeping the group together
█ proved too much and the three other members - Junior Braithwaite,
█ Beverly Kelso and Cherry Smith - quit. Bob's mother, Cedella, had
█ remarried and moved to Delaware in the United States where she had
█ saved sufficient money to send her son an air ticket. The intention
█ was for Bob to start a new life. But before he moved to America,
█ Bob met a young girl called Rita Anderson and, on February 10, 1966,
█ they were married.
█
█ Marley's stay in America was short-lived. He worked just enough to
█ finance his real ambition: music. In October 1966 Bob Marley, after
█ eight months in America, returned to Jamaica. It was a formative period
█ in his life. The Emperor Haile Selassie had made a state visit to
█ Jamaica in April that year. By the time Bob re-settled in Kingston
█ the Rastafarian movement had gained new credence.
█
█ Marley was increasingly drawn towards Rastafari. In 1967 Bob's music
█ reflected his new beliefs. Gone were the Rude Boy anthems; in their
█ place was a growing commitment to spiritual and social issues, the
█ cornerstone of his real legacy.
█
█ Marley joined up with Bunny and Peter to re-form the group, now known
█ as The Wailers. Rita, too, had started a singing career, having a big
█ hit with "Pied Piper", a cover of an English pop song. Jamaican music,
█ however, was changing. The bouncy ska beat had been replaced by a
█ slower, more sensual rhythm called rock steady.
█
█ The Wailers new commitment to Rastafarianism brought them into conflict
█ with Coxsone Dodd and, determined to control their own destiny, the
█ group formed their own record label, Wail 'N' Soul. Despite a few early
█ successes, however, the Wailers' business naivete proved too much and
█ the label folded in late 1967.
█
█ The group survived, however, initially as songwriters for a company
█ associated with the American singer Johnny Nash who, the following
█ decade, was to have an international smash with Marley's "Stir It
█ Up". The Wailers also met up with Lee Perry, whose production genius
█ had transformed recording studio techniques into an art form.
█
█ The Perry / Wailers combination resulted in some of the finest music
█ the band ever made. Such tracks as "Soul Rebel", "Duppy Conqueror",
█ "400 Years" and "Small Axe" were not only classics, but they defined
█ the future direction of reggae.
█
█ In 1970 Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and his brother Carlton (bass and
█ drums respectively) joined the Wailers. They had been the rhythm
█ nucleus of Perry's studio band, working with the Wailers on those
█ ground-breaking sessions. They were also unchallenged as Jamaica's
█ hardest rhythm section, a status that was to remain undiminished
█ during the following decade. The band's reputation was, at the start
█ of the Seventies, an extraordinary one throughout the Caribbean.
█ But internationally the Wailers were still unknown.
█
█ In the summer of 1971 Bob accepted an invitation from Johnny Nash
█ to accompany him to Sweden where the American singer had taken a
█ filmscore commission. While in Europe Bob secured a recording contract
█ with CBS which was also, of course, Nash's company. By the spring of
█ 1972 the entire Wailers were in London, ostensibly promoting their
█ CBS single "Reggae on Broadway". Instead they found themselves
█ stranded in Britain.
█
█ As a last throw of the dice Bob Marley walked into the Basing Street
█ Studios of Island Records and asked to see its founder Chris Blackwell.
█ The company, of course, had been one of the prime movers behind the
█ rise of Jamaican music in Britain; indeed Blackwell had launched Island
█ in Jamaica during the late fifties.
█
█ By 1962, however, Blackwell had realised that, by re-locating Island
█ to London, he could represent all his Jamaican rivals in Britain.
█ The company was re-born in May, 1962, selling initially to Britain's
█ Jamaican population centered mostly in London and Birmingham.
█
█ The hot ska rhythm, however, quickly became established as a
█ burgeoning dance floor beat with the then growing Mod culture and,
█ in 1964, Blackwell produced a worldwide smash with 'My Boy Lollipop',
█ a pop/ska tune by the young Jamaican singer Millie.
█
█ Through the Sixties Island had grown to become a major source of
█ Jamaican music, from ska and rock steady to reggae. The company had
█ also embraced white rock music, with such bands and artists as Traffic,
█ Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Cat Stevens, Free and Fairport Convention
█ so, when Bob Marley made his first moves with Island in 1971, he was
█ connecting with the hottest independent in the world at that time.
█
█ Blackwell knew of Marley's Jamaican reputation. The group was offered
█ a deal unique in Jamaican terms. The Wailers were advanced L4000 to
█ make an album and, for the first time, a reggae band had access to the
█ best recording facilities and were treated in much the same way as,
█ say, their rock group contemporaries. Before this deal, it was considered
█ that reggae sold only on singles and cheap compilation albums.
█ The Wailers' first album Catch A Fire broke all the rules: it was
█ beautifully packaged and heavily promoted. It was the start of a long
█ climb to international fame and recognition.
█
█ Years later the acclaimed reggae dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, commenting
█ on Catch A Fire, wrote: "A whole new style of Jamaican music has come into
█ being. It has a different character, a different sound. . . what I can
█ only describe as International Reggae. It incorporates elements from
█ popular music internationally: rock and soul, blues and funk. These
█ elements facilitated a breakthrough on the international market."
█
█ Although Catch A Fire was not an immediate hit, it made a considerable
█ impact on the media. Marley's hard dance rhythms, allied to his militant
█ lyrical stance, came in complete contrast to the excesses of mainstream
█ rock. Island also decided The Wailers should tour both Britain and
█ America; again a complete novelty for a reggae band.
█
█ Marley and the band came to London in April 1973, embarking on a
█ club tour which hardened The Wailers as a live group. After three
█ months, however, the band returned to Jamaica and Bunny, disenchanted
█ by life on the road, refused to play the American tour. His place
█ was taken by Joe Higgs, The Wailers' original singing teacher.
█
█ The American tour drew packed houses and even included a weekend
█ engagement playing support to the young Bruce Springsteen. Such was
█ the demand that an autumn tour was also arranged with seventeen dates
█ as support to Sly & The Family Stone, then the number one band in
█ black American music.
█
█ Four shows into the tour, however, The Wailers were taken off the bill.
█ It seems they had been too good; support bands should not detract from
█ the main attraction. The Wailers nevertheless made their way to San
█ Francisco where they broadcast a live concert for the pioneering rock
█ radio station, KSAN.
█
█ In 1973 The Wailers also released their second Island album, Burnin',
█ an LP that included new versions of some of the band's older songs:
█ 'Duppy Conqueror', for instance, "Small Axe" and "Put It On" - together
█ with such tracks as 'Get Up Stand Up' and "I Shot The Sheriff". The
█ latter, of course, was a massive worldwide hit for Eric Clapton the
█ following year, even reaching number one in the U.S. singles' chart.
█
█ In 1974 Marley spent much time of his time in the studio working on
█ the sessions that eventually provided Natty Dread, an album that
█ included such fiercely committed songs as 'Talkin' Blues', "No Woman
█ No Cry", "So Jah Seh," "Revolution", "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
█ and "Rebel Music (3 o'clock Roadblock)". By the start of the next year,
█ however, Bunny and Peter had quit the group; they were later to embark
█ on solo careers (as Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh) while the band was
█ re-named Bob Marley & The Wailers.
█
█ Natty Dread was released in February 1975 and, by the summer, the band
█ was on the road again. Bunny and Peter's missing harmonies were replaced
█ by the I-Threes, the female trio comprising Bob's wife Rita together
█ with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. Among the concerts were two shows
█ at the Lyceum Ballroom in London which, even now, are remembered as
█ highlights of the decade.
█
█ The shows were recorded and the subsequent live album, together with
█ the single "No Woman No Cry", both made the charts. Bob Marley & The
█ Wailers were taking reggae into the mainstream. By November, when The
█ Wailers returned to Jamaica to play a benefit concert with Stevie Wonder,
█ they were obviously the country's greatest superstars.
█
█ Rastaman Vibration, the follow-up album in 1976, cracked the American
█ charts. It was, for many, the clearest exposition yet of Marley's music
█ and beliefs, including such tracks as "Crazy Baldheads", "Johnny Was",
█ "Who the Cap Fit" and, perhaps most significantly of all, "War", the
█ lyrics of which were taken from a speech by Emperor Haile Selassie.
█
█ Its international success cemented Marley's growing political importance
█ in Jamaica, where his firm Rastafarian stance had found a strong resonance
█ with the ghetto youth. By way of thanking the people of Jamaica, Marley
█ decided on a free concert, to be held at Kingston's National Heroes Park
█ on December 5, 1976. The idea was to emphasise the need for peace in the
█ slums of the city, where warring factions had brought turmoil and murder.
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█ Just after the concert was announced, the government called an election
█ for December 20. The campaign was a signal for renewed ghetto war and,
█ on the eve of the concert, gunmen broke into Marley's house and shot him.
█ In the confusion the would-be assassins only wounded Marley, who was
█ hastily taken to a safe haven in the hills surrounding Kingston. For
█ a day he deliberated playing the concert and then, on December 5, he
█ came on stage and played a brief set in defiance of the gunmen.
█
█ It was to be Marley's last appearance in Jamaica for nearly eighteen
█ months. Immediately after the show he left the country and, during
█ early 1977, lived in London where he recorded his next album, Exodus.
█ Released in the summer of that year, Exodus properly established the
█ band's international status. The album remained on the UK charts for
█ 56 straight weeks, and its three singles - "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain"
█ and "Jammin" - were all massive sellers. The band also played a week
█ of concerts at London's Rainbow Theatre; their last dates in the city
█ during the seventies.
█
█ In 1978 the band capitalised on their chart success with Kaya, an album
█ which hit number four in the UK the week after release. That album saw
█ Marley in a different mood; a collection of love songs and, of course,
█ homages to the power of ganja. The album also provided two chart singles,
█ "Satisfy My Soul" and the beautiful "Is This Love".
█
█ There were three more events in 1978, all of which were of extraordinary
█ significance to Marley. In April he returned to Jamaica to play the One
█ Love Peace Concert in front of the Prime Minister Michael Manley and the
█ Leader of the Opposition Edward Seaga. He was then invited to the United
█ Nations in New York to receive the organisation's Medal of Peace. At the
█ end of the year Bob also visited Africa for the first time, going initially
█ to Kenya and then on to Ethiopia, spiritual home of Rastafari. The band
█ had earlier toured Europe and America, a series of shows that provided a
█ second live album, Babylon By Bus. The Wailers also broke new ground by
█ playing in Australia, Japan and New Zealand: truly international style
█ reggae.
█
█ Survival, Bob Marley's ninth album for Island Records, was released in
█ the summer of 1979. It included "Zimbabwe", a stirring anthem for the
█ soon-to-be liberated Rhodesia, together with "So Much Trouble In The
█ World", "Ambush In The Night" and "Africa Unite"; as the sleeve design,
█ comprising the flags of the independent nations, indicated, Survival
█ was an album of pan-African solidarity.
█
█ At the start of the following year - a new decade - Bob Marley & The
█ Wailers flew to Gabon where they were to make their African debut. It
█ was not an auspicious occasion, however, when the band discovered they
█ were playing in front of the country's young elite. The group,
█ nevertheless, was to make a quick return to Africa, this time at the
█ official invitation to the government of liberated Zimbabwe to play at
█ the country's Independence Ceremony in April, 1980. It was the greatest
█ honour ever afforded the band, and one which underlined the Wailer's
█ importance in the Third World.
█
█ The band's next album, Uprising, was released in May 1980. It was an
█ instant hit, with the single, "Could You Be Loved" a massive worldwide
█ seller. Uprising also featured "Coming In From the Cold", "Work" and
█ the extraordinary closing track, "Redemption Song".
█
█ The Wailers embarked on a major European tour, breaking festival records
█ throughout the continent. The schedule included a 100,000-capacity crowd
█ in Milan, the biggest show in the band's history. Bob Marley & The
█ Wailers, quite simply, were the most important band on the road that
█ year and the new Uprising album hit every chart in Europe. It was a
█ period of maximum optimism and plans were being made for an American
█ tour, in company with Stevie Wonder, that winter. At the end of the
█ European tour Marley and the band went to America. Bob played two shows
█ at Madison Square Garden but, immediately afterwards, was taken seriously
█ ill.
█
█ Three years earlier, in London, Bob hurt a toe while playing football.
█ The wound had become cancerous and was belatedly treated in Miami, yet
█ it continued to fester. By 1980 the cancer, in its most virulent form,
█ had begun to spread through Marley's body. He fought the disease for
█ eight months, taking treatment at the clinic of Dr. Joseph Issels in
█ Bavaria. Issels' treatment was controversial and non-toxic and, for
█ a time anyway, Bob's condition seemed to stabilise. Eventually, however,
█ the battle proved too much. At the start of May Bob Marley left Germany
█ for his Jamaican home, a journey he did not complete. He died in a Miami
█ hospital on Monday May 11, 1981.
█
█ The previous month, Marley had been awarded Jamaica's Order Of Merit,
█ the nation's third highest honour, in recognition of his outstanding
█ contribution to the country's culture.
█
█ On Thursday May 21, 1981, the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley O.M. was given
█ an official funeral by the people of Jamaica. Following the service
█ attended by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition
█ Marley's body was taken to his birthplace at Nine Mile, on the north
█ of the island, where it now rests in a mausoleum. Bob Marley was
█ 36-years-old. His legend, however, has conquered the years.
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