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1955, Georgia Gibbs’ "Dance With Me Henry" is
released … it’s a cleaned-up version of the more licentiously-titled "Roll
With Me Henry" by Etta James which in turn was retitled "The Wallflower" to
keep censors at bay … Coral Records hires original rock DJ Alan Freed as
their A&R man … 1958, Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army as Private Presley, serial number U-S-53310761 … 1962, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first perform together as Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys … 1963, teen idol Dion finally takes his "Runaround Sue" out of the marketplace when he marries Sue Butterfield … 1964, wax images of The Beatles go on display in London at the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum … they will later appear on the Sergeant Pepper cover … wax on…wax off…everyone’s favorite high-strung diva, Barbara "Babs" Streisand opens on Broadway in Funny Girl…she wins a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the movie version … 1967, Peter Bergman of Firesign Theatre coined the term Love-In and threw the first such event in April of 1967 in Los Angeles’ Elysian Park, attracting 65,000 people and blocking freeways for miles…Columbia Records producer, Gary Usher is so impressed, he offers Firesign Theatre their first record contract…The Who play their first American gig at New York's Paramount Theater … 1969, raising the bar for those who love to sleep in, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their famous "bed-in" at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel … 1973, just 12 days after their single "Cover of the Rolling Stone" peaks at #6 on the pop chart, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show appear on the cover of the magazine … Lou Reed is bitten at a concert in Buffalo, New York …the "rabid" fan, unable to contain his affection, leaps onstage and bites Reed on the bum as he is about to perform Waitin' for the Man…screaming "leather," the fan gets past security as he assaults Reed…the fan is ejected and Reed later comments that the US "seems to breed real animals" … 1975, Barry Manilow makes his first appearance on American Bandstand … No. 1 on the Billboard charts is Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti … No. 3 is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks … No. 2 is Olivia Newton-John's Have You Never Been Mellow … go figure … 1978, the Police sign with A&M records … 1985, Prince wins an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film Purple Rain … rumor has it that the movie’s title song actually was written by Prince’s backup musicians, Wendy and Lisa … the movie seems to acknowledge this, however the credits don’t … they are credited as co-writers of "Computer Blue," a song Wendy and Lisa claim in an interview that they had nothing to do with … Billy Joel marries model Christie Brinkley … nine years later, his relationship with the "uptown girl" goes south … 1991, New Kid Donnie Wahlberg narrowly escapes becoming a new kid on the cell block when he is arrested and charged with first-degree arson … he apparently was trying to set the historic Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, KY, on fire with a Molotov cocktail … the charges are later reduced and then dropped in exchange for public service commercials … 1992, after it's discovered that Milli Vanilli didn't perform on their recordings, a Chicago judge says the duo's label should offer refunds to those who bought their records … c’mon, give Rob and Fab a break, nobody performs on their records anymore … 1995, Tupac Shakur is found guilty of sexual assault against a female fan and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in Riker's penitentiary in February of that year … while in jail, Tupac's Me Against the World hits number one … he becomes the first rapper to top the charts and get married while incarcerated … a short opera on the life of Martina Navratilova has its Carnegie Hall premiere … the Song of Martina, composed by Dean X Johnson, assistant music director of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, featured lesbian comic Lea Delaria in the title role … Duran Duran release Thank You, a collection of cover versions generally considered to be one of the worst albums ever recorded … 1996, the Beatles last charting single, "Real Love," enters the Top 100 and will eventually rise to #11 … the song is based on a demo cut by John Lennon in 1979 to which the other Beatles added new vocals 16 years after Lennon’s death … 1997, shock rock band Marilyn Manson is forced to cut short a show at the Nimitz Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii, after lead singer Manson injures his hand during the performance … Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, falls onstage and cuts an artery in his hand … we hear that Manson normally isn’t squeamish at the sight of blood … unless it’s his own … Paul McCartney's birth certificate is sold to a bidder for Beatles' memorabilia for $84,146 … 1998, Chuck Negron files suit against his former Three Dog Night bandmates … Negron alleges that a breach of a 1990 settlement put a crimp in the crooner’s career … years later in an odd twist, Negron's management licenses the rights to use the name of the 1960s horn band Blood, Sweat & Tears from BS&T drummer Bobby Colomby … Negron now appears as Blood, Sweat & Tears Featuring Chuck Negron at various venues … 1999, rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard is arrested yet again, this time in New York City after police claim to have found crack cocaine in his vehicle after pulling him over for not having license plates on his vehicle … ODB will be charged with a misdemeanor drug possession charge and for driving with a suspended license … he will be arrested again five days later after police pull him over because once again the vehicle he is driving has no license plates … on the positive side of hip-hop, rap mogul Master P donates $500,000 to keep his old grammar school from closing … 2000, with Angus Young in attendance, the Spanish town of Leganes names a street "Calle de AC/DC" … 2003, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose sends the Offspring a cease-and-desist letter after they announce plans to call their new album Chinese Democrazy … "You snooze you lose," Offspring singer Dexter Holland said in a statement … "Axl ripped off my braids, so I ripped off his album title." … Madonna's Swept Away is named worst film at this year's Razzie … Madonna also ties with Britney Spears for worst actress and wins worst supporting actress for her appearance in the James Bond flick Die Another Day … 2004, Bob Dylan starts hawking lady’s underwear in a television ad for Victoria’s Secret which also features the song "Love Sick" from Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind … the commercial features Dylan and model Adriana Lima, who is barely clothed while Dylan, thankfully, is fully dressed … music critics, columnists, and Dylan fans immediately erupt on the Internet after the first spot aired, all asking "Why?" … the answer is; no one knows except Bob … however, shedding some possible light, when asked in 1965 what might tempt him to sell out he replied: "Ladies' undergarments." … 2005, Justin Jeffre, former member of the boy band 98 Degrees, announces his candidacy for the mayor of Cincinnati … according to pollsters, Jeffre ran a lackluster campaign, which raised the question as to whether fellow bandmate Nick Lachey should have run … as if we need more lackeys in politics … the Decemberists opt to release their new music video, "Sixteen Military Wives," via BitTorrent, an easy way to give the video exposure without fronting a lot of money for bandwidth … Dawn Barger, manager for the Decemberists, says: "For the most part, MTV and VH1 won't touch video unless bands have sold a huge number of records. It's impossible to get rotation" … the experimental release is a success, seeing almost 2,000 downloads its first weekend … American Idol is forced to have a revote after they display the incorrect phone numbers for each of the 11 contestants during the voting stage of the Fox TV talent show … 2006, Apple releases a free software patch for download that permits iPod owners to set a maximum volume level … the action is seemingly in response to articles critical of the device’s potential for hearing damage and a pending class-action lawsuit … so much for self-determination … as Rene Descartes might have said, "iPod therefore I am" 2002, for the first time ever, black performers swept the Academy's lead actor awards with Denzel Washington for "Training Day" and Halle Berry for "Monsters Ball" making them Oscar winners. 1992, a Chicago judge approves rebates of $3 to those who can prove that they brought a Milli Vanilli Album before Nov. 27, 1990 - the day it was learned that the band wasn't just characters, but monstrous frauds to add insult to injury. 1929, pianist Clarence "Pine Top" Smith, who helped start the boogie-woogie craze the year before with "Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie" is shot dead in a Chicago night club while dancing with a young lady … the errant slug is fired by a waiter trying to break up a fight … Pine Top was only 25 … 1954, The Chords record "Sh-Boom," which becomes the first top 10 pop hit by a rhythm and blues group … a white group, The Crew Cuts (from Canada), releases a less hip cover version that goes to #1 … 1958, Chess Records releases the LP One Dozen Berrys by Chuck Berry … songs include "Rock And Roll Music," "Sweet Little Sixteen," and "Reelin’ And Rockin’" … Chuck records the tunes between concert dates where he’s now using a pick-up band of local musicians in each town … the savings from not have a touring band mean Chuck flies to gigs and has enough time to rehearse with the musicians … which would be nice if Chuck didn’t have the habit of changing the song keys and arrangements while onstage … 1964, touted as "America’s answer to The Beatles," the one-hit wonders The Pyramids sport shaved bald heads and are known as "the crazies of the surf scene" … their lone hit, "Penetration" punctures its way to #18 on the charts … the group appears on American Bandstand and Hullabaloo … they even manage a brief appearance in Frankie and Annette’s third beach movie Bikini Beach … 1965, from the Building-A-Rebel-Image Workbook: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones are arrested and fined five pounds after urinating on a London gas station wall when they are refused access to the men’s room … they’re told it was out of order … but we know it’s because of their long hair and scruffy appearance … fun and games compared to the Stones’ drug bust of 1967 … 1968, Eric Clapton and the Buffalo Springfield’s Neil Young, Richie Furay, and Jim Messina are arrested on drug charges in Los Angeles … 1970, Tammi Terrell, who had 10 chart hit duets with Marvin Gaye, dies of a brain tumor while onstage … she was 24 … 1971, a hard-to-believe entry from the One Hit Wonders Department is Janis Joplin … her recording of Kris Kristofferson’s "Me and Bobbie McGee" graces #1 on the pop charts … Janis isn’t around to enjoy the hit … she died of a heroin overdose the previous October … Marvin Gaye finishes recording the basic tracks for What’s Going On, the album that revitalizes his career after the death of Tammi Terrell … along with other serious topics, the album deals with the Vietnam war and the toll it is taking on Marvin’s brother Frankie and the many thousands of others serving there … the LP also marks the first time that Motown’s Funk Brothers, including legendary bassist James Jamerson, get credits on the sleeve … 1989, America’s oldest teenager, Dick Clark, announces that he will no longer be hosting the show American Bandstand … he had been the host for 33 years … 1990, Gloria Estefan is badly injured when her group’s tour bus is rammed by a tractor-trailer near Scranton, Pennsylvania … though suffering a fractured and dislocated vertebra in her spine, she is back onstage performing at the American Music Awards less than 11 months later … 1991, Leo Fender, who revolutionized the electric guitar by inventing the Telecaster in 1950 and the Stratocaster in 1954, dies at home in Fullerton, California, of Parkinson’s disease … although he studied piano and saxophone as a youth, Leo never played guitar … 2003, protesters in Louisiana destroy Dixie Chicks CDs with a 33,000-pound tractor, in protest over singer Natalie Maines' comments about President George W. Bush … Maines, who like the President is from Texas, said between songs during a concert in London: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas" … the South Carolina House of Representatives passes a resolution urging the Dixie Chicks to make a public apology … which Maines does, but the damage is done as the group is boycotted and fans are split over whether the comment should have been made or the apology issued … 2004, a restraining order sought by Axl Rose that would prevent Universal Music Group from releasing a Guns N’ Roses greatest hits album is denied by a federal judge … the label argues that it has every right to release the record since Rose has failed to deliver on his contract to produce the long-threatened Chinese Democracy album … after four years, many canceled gigs, and no new material, Buckethead leaves Guns N' Roses … his manager tells MTV that the avant-garde guitarist became fed up with the band's "inertia" … 2006, Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer withdraws a civil suit he filed against Prince resulting from the Purple One’s redecoration of the mansion he rents from the basketballer … among Prince’s "improvements": lavender stripes painted on various surfaces, installation of purple-and-black carpets, and modifications to the plumbing system to accommodate several beauty-salon chairs … Aerosmith is obliged to cancel the rest of its tour dates when Steven Tyler is operated on for unspecified throat problems … 1808, America's first college orchestra
founded, - at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA.) 1955, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker succumbs to a heart attack … the 34-year-old alto saxophonist was the progenitor of bebop, playing with fluidity and invention that has yet to be equaled … 1957, Fats Domino hits the pop chart for the first time with his swingin’ "I’m Walkin’" … the fat man will enjoy another 66 charting hits during the next 13 years … 1958, Billie Holiday is sentenced to a year’s probation after pleading guilty to narcotics possession … 1965, The Beatles’ "Eight Days a Week" rides the top of the Billboard pop chart … oddly, the song isn’t released as a single in England … this same week Eric Clapton splits from The Yardbirds to join John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers … 1967, Dick James, the Beatles’ music publisher, announces that 446 versions of "Yesterday" have been waxed to date making it the all-time champ among covered songs … 1968, the Fillmore East opens in New York … 1969, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show is canceled by CBS … during its run the show had featured many rock acts including The Beatles, The Doors, and The Who … the cancellation is seen as the result of the brothers refusing to censor comments made by guest Joan Baez about her husband David Harris who was facing prison as a war resister … 1972, country music star and reformed burglar Merle Haggard is given a pardon by California governor Ronald Reagan … it’s been 12 years since Merle did his singing behind bars at San Quentin … 1973, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, keyboard and harp player with the Grateful Dead, dies from a stomach hemorrhage … a very heavy drinker, McKernan was the only member of the band who refrained from doing other drugs in the post Acid-Test era … 1974, John Lennon and his drinking buddy Harry Nilsson are booted out of West L.A.’s Troubadour Club after heckling comic Tom Smothers … 1976, former porn star Andrea True charts with her disco ditty "More, More, More" … it will rise to #4 on the pop chart … 1977, the Sex Pistols sign with A&M Records and commemorate the event with a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace … 1979, Soul Brother (and Good Old Boy) Number One James Brown gets funky at the Grand Ole Opry … 1991, in a deal worth $40 million, Janet Jackson announces she is switching labels from A&M to Virgin … there is no word on whether her nipples are part of the pact … 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. is shot to death in Los Angeles following the Grammy Awards ceremony … his death is thought to be the result of a feud between East Coast and West Coast gangbangers, but the LAPD is baffled … meanwhile in London, Her Majesty proves she’s a pretty nice girl by knighting Paul McCartney … 1998, Alan Reed, an American dancer, sues Japanese pop star Seiko Matsuda for 48 million yen, charging that she pressured Reed, a member of her stage show, into having sex with her … his case is a loser … meanwhile in another court action, lawyers representing Korn serve Assistant Principal Gretchen Plewes of Zeeland High School in Michigan with court papers demanding she stop making "defamatory comments about Korn and its products" … the action stems from the suspension of a student who wore a Korn T-shirt to school … Cathay Pacific Airways announces that Oasis singer Liam Gallagher has been banned from flying with the airline following a flight during which he is reported to have screamed obscenities and smoked in the cabin … meanwhile in Arizona, 56,000 country music fans turn up in Phoenix for what must be the longest-winded name ever for a music event: Nokia Presents The George Strait Chevy Truck Country Music Festival Brought To You By Wrangler … phew … 1999, Cher’s long-time manager Bill Sammeth files suit against his former client for the 15% fee he says she owes him from proceeds of her comeback hit "Believe" … Sammeth, who had guided Cher’s career for 22 years, says he was "unceremoniously dumped" just before Cher’s Super Bowl halftime appearance—a gig he says he got her … 2000, in the middle of a Fargo, North Dakota, show, Korn drummer David Silveria suddenly loses use of one of his wrists … Mike Bordin of Faith No More subs for the rest of the tour while Silveria heals … meanwhile in New York, Chrissie Hynde is busted for slashing leather goods at a Gap store as part of a PETA action … 2003, the Chinese government orders the Rolling Stones to axe four songs from the set lists of their Shanghai and Beijing shows … the banned tunes are "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," and "Let’s Spend the Night Together" … 2004, Jack White of The White Stripes pleads guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery on singer Jason Stollsteimer of The Von Bondies … word has it that White was upset about derogatory comments Stollsteimer had made in connection with White’s production of the Von Bondies’ debut record … 2005, the Get Up Kids announce via their website that they have gotten up and split … former Backstreet Boys singer Nick Carter is arrested for drunk driving in Orange County, California … the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame celebrates its 20th anniversary along with the 50th anniversary of rock itself … inductees include U2, Buddy Guy, and Percy Sledge … meanwhile in London an audience is treated to an unannounced appearance by Mick Jagger during a Ron Wood concert … Jagger handles vocals on the Stones song "Dance (Pt. 1)" … 2006, British court rules that Apple Computer did not violate Apple Corps trademark when it launched iTunes … the case hinged on whether a 1991 agreement forbade Apple Computer from distributing music on physical media … at that time the computer maker paid Apple Corps $27 million and agreed to not enter into music distribution … the English judge finds that because iTunes is not the original source of the content it offers, the no-distribution provision doesn’t apply … in a convoluted deal reached the following year, Apple (which has by then removed "Computer" from its name) acquires rights to all Apple logos used by both companies and will license the green apple logo of Apple Corps back to the company founded by The Beatles … no financial details are revealed … on other fronts, Isaac Hayes quits South Park, the animated show on which he voiced the character of Chef for nine years … Hayes cites the show’s take on religion as his reason for leaving saying, "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs of others begins" … Matt Stone, the show’s co-creator, referring to a recent episode that targeted Hayes’ religion, Scientology, drily notes, "He has no problem—and he’s cashed plenty of checks—with our show making fun of Christians" … 1954, Elvis Presley auditions for The Songfellows, a country vocal group … they pass on the future king saying he can't sing harmony … 1955, Bo Diddley cuts his first records for Chess including "I’m a Man," a tune that will influence generations of rockers to follow … 1956, Gale Storm’s cover of the Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers #6 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" rises to #9 on the pop chart … it is notable for being the first white-artist cover that fails to beat the black-artist original on the chart … 1957, the British music mag New Musical Express predicts that pop star Tommy Sands will soon eclipse Elvis in the teen heartthrob category … 1959, recording begins in New York City for the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue - it will prove so popular that people who normally don’t buy jazz albums buy this one … 1963, golden-voiced country/pop great Patsy Cline never makes it back to Nashville when her plane goes down en route from St. Louis … she, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins are returning from a benefit concert for the widow of DJ Cactus Jack Call, who was recently killed in a car crash … ironically, country singer Jack Anglin dies two days later in an auto accident on his way to Cline’s funeral … meanwhile in pre-hippie San Francisco, a concert at the Cow Palace dubbed "The Limbo Party" has an eclectic lineup that includes Chubby Checker as host … performers include Marvin Gaye, The Crystals, Lou Christie, The Four Seasons, Dick & Dee Dee, Paul & Paula, and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass … 1966, Steve Stills and Neil Young form Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles … the band is named for a piece of road construction equipment … meanwhile across town Phil Spector produces the monumental Tina Turner track "River Deep, Mountain High" … it’s rumored that he spent more than $22,000 creating the orchestral backing track—an unprecedented sum in its day—word has it that Spector also paid Ike Turner, Tina’s spouse and Svengali, $20,000 to stay the hell out of the studio … meanwhile in England, John Lennon stirs up an international furor when during a newspaper interview he remarks that the Beatles "are probably bigger than Jesus right now" … 1967, Steve and Muff Winwood announce that they are leaving the Spencer Davis Group … Steve later forms the critically acclaimed band Traffic … 1968, Johnny Cash and June Carter marry at the First United Methodist Church in Franklin, Kentucky … a motorcade of Cadillacs carry Johnny, June, and the families to the small, private ceremony … Johnny’s best man is Merle Kilgore, who shares co-writing credits with June on "Ring of Fire," the tune generally credited as a musical documentation of Johnny and June’s love affair … 1971, Radio Hanoi plays Jimi Hendrix’s "Star Spangled Banner" … the tape was sent by activist Abbie Hoffman … 1973, Grateful Dead harp and keyboard player Ron "Pigpen" McKernan succumbs to a stomach hemmorhage brought on by a heavy-drinking lifestyle … the keyboard slot in the band proves to be a dangerous one … in later years replacements Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland both die, respectively from an auto accident and drug overdose, and Vince Welnick commits suicide … meanwhile, Paul McCartney pleads guilty and pays a fine of $240 after marijuana plants are found growing at his farm in Scotland … in his defense McCartney claims that a fan gave him some seeds, which he planted, not knowing what would grow from them … this same week in 1975, Linda and Paul are pulled over for running a red light in Los Angeles … police sniff pot and find six to eight ounces in Linda’s purse and charge her with possession … since it isn’t his purse, Paul goes free … 1978, Van Halen launches its first tour at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom … the rockers’ contract requires that M&Ms with the brown candies removed be supplied backstage … it is later revealed in David Lee Roth’s autobiography that the provision was not the result of rock-star whims, but instead served to monitor whether promoters had thoroughly read the band’s technical specifications for shows … Roth writes, "So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening" … 1982, Blues Brother John Belushi dies at age 33 of a drug overdose … according to fellow Blues Brother Dan Akroyd, Belushi had taken to hanging out with a group of sleazy sycophants who had anything but Belushi’s best interests in mind … 1984, Gold Star Recording Studios where Phil Spector cut most of his monster hits is demolished to make way for a mini-mall that features a Del Taco stand … 1985, Sheena Easton sets a crossover record when her Prince-written song "Sugar Walls" hits the top ten in the R&B, Country, Dance, and Adult Contemporary charts … 1994, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana washes down a handful of Valiums with champagne and winds up in a coma in a Rome hospital … he revives after about 20 hours … though officially labeled accidental, the overdose is quietly considered to be a suicide attempt by those close to Cobain … a second try with a shotgun will prove fatal nearly two months later … 1995, R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry undergoes successful brain surgery for an aneurysm after collapsing during a concert in Switzerland … 1998, rapper C-BO is arrested for song lyrics urging violence against the police … the DA says that the lyrics in his recently released album, 'Til My Casket Drops violate the terms of the rapper’s parole … meanwhile in Brisbane, Australia, Liam Gallagher of Oasis is charged with assault after headbutting and breaking a fan’s nose … 1999, British singer Dusty Springfield dies of breast cancer on the day she was scheduled to receive her OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth … she was 59 … this same day, fired Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll settles his suit against the band for $880,000 … lawyers had predicted a much bigger payday … country singer George Jones is seriously hurt when he slams his Lexus into a bridge … a bottle was to blame … 2000, at the Annual Brit Awards in the U.K., Macy Gray takes the honors for Best International Female Artist and Best Newcomer … 2002, Nashville songwriter Howard Harlan, who was known as "Mr. Songwriter," dies … he penned more than 4,000 songs, including massive country hits such as Patsy Cline’s "I Fall to Pieces" … 2003, Hank Ballard, leader of the Midnighters dies … notable for having written "The Twist" and enjoying a hit with it before Chubby Checker’s cover, he and his swinging band charted with 22 R&B hits in the 1950s and ’60s, many of which crossed over onto the pop chart … these included the suggestive "Work With Me Annie" and its sequel "Annie Had a Baby" … their double-entendre-laden lyrics resulted in the songs being banned on many radio stations … 2005, Queen’s Brian May, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck are all guests at a Buckingham Palace party to honor the British music industry … when Queen Elizabeth II meets the four famous guitarists she asks them: "And what do you do?" … 2006, Yanni is arrested at his home in Manalapan, FL after an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend … he is charged with domestic battery … word on the street says that the battery consisted of Yanni strapping the girl down and playing his CDs for hours on end … |
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