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Average White Band

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Average White Band (also AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. [1]

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A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip-hop collective formed in 1985 and originally composed of MC and main producer Q-Tip,.

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Abertay University

Abertay University, operating name for the University of Abertay Dundee since 2014, is one of two public universities in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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Adam Deitch

Adam David Deitch is an American record producer and drummer based in Denver, Colorado.

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Aftershock (Average White Band album)

Aftershock is the tenth album by the R&B band Average White Band.

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Alan Gorrie

Alan Edward Gorrie (born 19 July 1946, Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish bassist, guitarist, keyboardist and singer.

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Alex Ligertwood

Alexander John "Alex" Ligertwood is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Arrested Development (group)

Arrested Development is an American hip hop group that formed in Atlanta in 1988.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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AWB (album)

AWB is the second studio album by the Scottish funk and soul band Average White Band, released in August 1974.

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.

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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Bloodstone (band)

Bloodstone is an American R&B, soul, and funk group, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists.

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Bonnie Bramlett

Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, November 8, 1944) is an American singer and occasional actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music.

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Brian Auger

Brian Albert Gordon Auger (born 18 July 1939 in Hammersmith London) is an English jazz and rock keyboardist, who has specialised in playing the Hammond organ.

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Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens, March 23, 1953) is an American recording artist whose career has spanned five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist and focal point of the funk band Rufus.

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Cher

Cher (born May 20, 1946 as Cherilyn Sarkisian, Շերիլին Սարգիսեան) is an American singer and actress.

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Christina Milian

Christine Flores (born September 26, 1981), better known as Christina Milian, is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Cupid's in Fashion

Cupid’s in Fashion is ninth album by the Average White Band (also AWB) a Scottish funk and R&B band.

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Cut the Cake (album)

Cut the Cake is the third album released by Average White Band, released in 1975.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is an integral part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.

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Eliot Lewis

Eliot Lewis (born March 10, 1962) is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, bassist, drummer, songwriter, and producer.

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Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim are a hip hop duo formed in Long Island, New York, in 1986, composed of Eric B. (born Eric Barrier) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr.). AllMusic wrote that "during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop." Tom Terrell of NPR called them "the most influential DJ/MC combo in contemporary pop music period," while the editors of About.com ranked them as No.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Feel No Fret

Feel No Fret is the seventh album by Scottish funk and R&B band Average White Band (also AWB) released in 1979 on the RCA label in the United Kingdom and the Atlantic label in the United States.

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Forever More (band)

Forever More was a late 1960s and early 1970s progressive rock band, featuring Alan Gorrie on bass guitar, piano, vocals; Mick Strode (aka Mick Travis) on guitar, vocals; Onnie McIntyre (aka Onnie Mair) on guitar and vocals; and Stuart Francis on drums and vocals.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Hall & Oates

Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo.

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Hamish Stuart

James Hamish Stuart (born 8 October 1949, Glasgow, Scotland) is a guitarist, bassist, singer, composer and record producer.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, writer and actor.

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Imagine (John Lennon song)

"Imagine" is a song written and performed by English musician John Lennon.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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Let's Go Round Again

"Let's Go Round Again" was a single released by the Scottish funk and R&B group Average White Band.

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Louise Redknapp

Louise Elizabeth Nurding (born 4 November 1974), professionally known as Louise, is an English singer and media personality.

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Marquee Club

The Marquee Club was a music venue first located at 165 Oxford Street, London, England when it opened in 1958 with a range of jazz and skiffle acts.

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MCA Inc.

MCA Inc.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Mogul Thrash

Mogul Thrash were a progressive rock band from the United Kingdom active in the early 1970s.

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Molly Duncan (musician)

Malcolm "Molly" Duncan (born 24 August 1945, Montrose, Scotland) is a tenor saxophonist and founding member of Average White Band.

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Morris Pleasure

Morris "Mo" Joseph Pleasure (born July 12, 1962) is an American composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and touring musician (Sideman).

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Morrissey–Mullen

Morrissey–Mullen was a British jazz-funk/fusion group of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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My Ding-a-Ling

"My Ding-a-Ling" is a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew.

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Nas

Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), better known by his stage name Nas, is an American rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.

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Ned Doheny

Ned Doheny (born March 26, 1948; née Patrick Anson Doheny) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California who has recorded five albums as well as performed on many albums by other artists including Don Henley and Glenn Frey of the Eagles, J.D. Souther, Linda Ronstadt, and Jackson Browne, with whom he was once in a band.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pick Up the Pieces (Average White Band song)

"Pick Up the Pieces" is a 1974 song by the Average White Band from their second album, AWB.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Promoter (entertainment)

An entertainment promoter in industries like music, wrestling, and sports is an individual or organization in the business of marketing and promoting live events such as concerts/gigs, sports events, professional wrestling (wrestling events), festivals, raves, and nightclubs.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robbie McIntosh (drummer)

Robert Broderick James 'Robbie' McIntosh (6 May 1950 – 23 September 1974) was a Scottish drummer from Dundee, who was a founder-member of the Average White Band (AWB).

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Roger Ball (musician)

Roger Ball (born 4 June 1944, Broughty Ferry, Scotland) is a Scottish saxophonist, keyboardist, songwriter and arranger.

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Ronnie Laws

Ronald Wayne Laws (born October 3, 1950) is an American jazz, jazz fusion, smooth jazz saxophonist.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Santana (band)

Santana is a Latin music and rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Show Your Hand (album)

Show Your Hand is the first album by Scottish funk band Average White Band, likely recorded at R.G. Jones Studios, Wimbledon, London and released in 1973 by MCA Records.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Searching (Average White Band album)

Soul Searching is the fourth album released by Average White Band.

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Steve Ferrone

Stephen "Steve" Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is best known for being the drummer for the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for the last 25 years, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch in 1994.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux

The Atlantic Family Live at Montreux is a live recording made at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Festival.

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The Beatnuts

The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City.

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The Brand New Heavies

The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing in west London.

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The J.B.'s

The J.B.'s (sometimes punctuated The JB's or The J.B.s) was the name of James Brown's band from 1970 through the early 1980s.

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The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group was an English rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck.

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TLC (group)

TLC is an American girl group whose original line-up consisted of Tionne "'''T'''-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "'''L'''eft Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "'''C'''hilli" Thomas.

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Too Short

Todd Anthony Shaw (born April 28, 1966) better known by the stage name Too Short (stylized as Too $hort), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Tower of Power

Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968.

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Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham, in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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University of Dundee

The University of Dundee (abbreviated as Dund. for post-nominals) is a public research university based in the city and royal burgh of Dundee on the east coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Up (Morrissey–Mullen album)

Up was the debut album by British jazz-fusion duo Morrissey–Mullen.

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Walk On By (song)

"Walk On By" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach, with lyrics by Hal David for singer Dionne Warwick in 1963.

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Warmer Communications

Warmer Communications is the sixth studio album released by Average White Band.

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Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)

Wish You Were Here is the sixth album by rock band Badfinger and their third consecutive album produced by Chris Thomas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_White_Band

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