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Songs from the Big Chair

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Songs from the Big Chair is the second studio album by the British rock/pop band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 1985 by Mercury Records in most countries and distributed internationally by Phonogram Inc. The album peaked at number two in the UK and number one in the US and Canada. [1]

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AllMusic

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

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Baker Street (song)

"Baker Street" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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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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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Canadian Singles Chart

The Canadian Singles Chart is compiled by the American-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan.

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Chris Hughes (musician)

Christopher Merrick Hughes (born 3 March 1954, London, England), also known as Merrick, is a British music producer and former drummer, acoustic guitarist and keyboards player for Adam and the Ants.

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Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is a Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music and movies.

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Curt Smith

Curt Smith (born 24 June 1961) is an English musician.

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Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known as multiple personality disorder, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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E-mu Drumulator

E-mu Drumulator was the sample-based drum-machine by E-mu Systems.

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Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music was created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song recorded by English band Tears for Fears.

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records.

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Gallup (company)

Gallup, Inc. is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar solo

A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music written for a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.

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Hammersmith Apollo

The Hammersmith Apollo (called the Eventim Apollo for sponsorship reasons and formerly – and still commonly – known as the Hammersmith Odeon) is an entertainment venue and a Grade II* listed building located in Hammersmith, London.

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Head over Heels (Tears for Fears song)

"Head over Heels" is a song by British new wave band Tears for Fears.

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I Believe (Tears for Fears song)

"I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)" is a single by the British band Tears for Fears.

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Ian Stanley

Ian Christopher Stanley (born 28 February 1957) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Irish Singles Chart

The Irish Singles Chart (Irish: Cairt Singil na hÉireann) is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by The Official Charts Company.

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Jerry Marotta

Jerome David "Jerry" Marotta (born February 6, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American drummer currently residing in Woodstock, New York.

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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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Keyboard bass

Keyboard bass (shortened to key bass and sometimes referred as a synth bass) is the use of a low-pitched keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the bass guitar or double bass in music.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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LinnDrum

The LinnDrum (sometimes referred to as the Linn LM-2) is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics between 1982 and 1985.

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Manny Elias

Manny Elias (born 1953) is an Indian-born British drummer, notable for being the original drummer with Tears for Fears during the 1980s.

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Massey Hall

Massey Hall is a performing arts theatre in the Garden District of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Mel Collins

Melvyn Desmond "Mel" Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer (sometimes known as MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal music magazine, published in the United Kingdom by Future Plc and in several other countries by different publishers.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL or MoFi) is a record label specializing in the production of audiophile recordings.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Mothers Talk

"Mothers Talk" is a 1984 song by the British band Tears for Fears.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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Neil Taylor (guitarist)

Neil Taylor (born 26 January 1961) is an English guitarist, best known for his long-time affiliation with Robbie Williams and for formerly being a member of Tears for Fears.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault.

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Phonogram Inc.

Phonogram Incorporated was started in 1970 as a successor to Philips Phonographic Industries, a unit of the Grammophon-Philips Group (GPG), a joint venture of Philips N.V. of the Netherlands and Siemens A.G. of Germany.

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Photographer

A photographer (the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Programming (music)

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

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Progressive pop

Progressive pop is a form of pop music which attempts to break with the genre's standard formula.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Record Collector

Record Collector is a British monthly music magazine.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand.

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Remaster

Remaster (also digital remastering and digitally remastered) refers to enhancing the quality of the sound or of the image, or both, of previously created recordings, either audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic.

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Richard Skinner (broadcaster)

Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is a British broadcaster.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Roland Orzabal

Roland Orzabal (born 22 August 1961) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Scenes from the Big Chair

Scenes from the Big Chair is a documentary film about the British band Tears for Fears.

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Shout (Tears for Fears song)

"Shout" is a song by British band Tears for Fears, written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley and sung by Orzabal (with Curt Smith duetting on the chorus).

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Single Top 100

The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by MegaCharts.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Smash Hits

Smash Hits was a pop music magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP.

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Steven Wilson

Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the progressive rock genre.

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Stevie Vann

Stevie Vann (born Stevie van Kerken), also known as Stevie Lange, is a Zambian-born British singer and vocal coach.

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Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002.

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) are Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Sybil (1976 film)

Sybil is a 1976 two-part, -hour American television miniseries starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Talent manager

A talent manager (also known as an artist manager, band manager or music manager) is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry.

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Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hurting

The Hurting is the debut studio album by the British rock/pop band Tears for Fears.

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The Lotus Eaters (band)

The Lotus Eaters are an English new wave band formed in 1982 in Liverpool.

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The Seeds of Love

The Seeds of Love is the third studio album by the British rock/pop band Tears for Fears, released on 25 September 1989, four years and seven months after Songs From The Big Chair.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Wool Hall

The Wool Hall was a residential recording studio in the village of Beckington, near Bath, Somerset, England.

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TI Media

TI Media (formerly International Publishing Corporation, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK), on the IPC Media website is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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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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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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VG-lista

VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.

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Will Gregory

William Owen "Will" Gregory (born) is an English musician and record producer.

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Wogan

Wogan was a British television talk show which was broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1992, presented by Terry Wogan.

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XTC

XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972 and active until 2006.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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References

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

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