by admin on November 28, 2009
Many people think of The Beatles classic film when they hear “A Hard Day’s Night” but the soundtrack album by the same name was a huge step forward for the band’s songwriting. Their first two albums included only 8 original songs each (along with 6 covers) and quite a few of those originals were not particularly good. A Hard Day’s Night was all originals (no covers) and for the most part these songs were a huge improvement over their previous originals.
From the first distinctive chord of “A Hard Day’s Night” the album has it’s own special feeling. High energy & classic songwriting. This album is filled with brilliant singles like the aforementioned title track that leads off the album & “Can’t Buy Me Love” along with gorgeous ballads like “If I Fell” & “And I Love Her. ”
Sure there are a couple of not so great songs on the album. Particularly I have never been a fan of “When I Get Home” which just sounds like a throwaway to me. I’m not a huge fan of “I Should Have Known Better” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” either but they both have their charms.
One of my very favorite songs on the album is “Things We Said Today” which just has this perfect unique vibe to it. Great acoustic strumming with an irresistible McCartney melody. Perhaps my favorite part of the song is when it goes back into verse on the word “enough. ” It’s largely because of those smart little bits of songwriting that their songs still sound so fresh even 40 years later.
“I’ll Cry Instead” is another one of my favorites. It has sort of a faux country sound to it and I don’t normally get into The Beatles faux country songs. But this one and “I’ve Just Seen a Face” (from Help!) are two notable exceptions. I just love Lennon’s singing on this one. It’s a great catchy melody and while the lyrics are kind of silly, they somehow just work.
The album ends with strongly with “You Can’t Do That” & “I’ll Be Back. ” Both are songs that I didn’t get into much at first for some reason but that I appreciate quite a bit now.
If you are mostly a fan of the later Beatles music, it can sometimes be hard to get into their earlier work. But if you have an open mind and understand the context of the times, I think you can appreciate the brilliant tunes included on A Hard Day’s Night.
One bit of trivia that you may find interesting is that A Hard Day’s Night is the only Beatles album that includes only Lennon/McCartney originals. Why is that? Well, it’s because it’s their only early album that doesn’t include any covers. While many of their later albums are all originals as well, by then George Harrison was contributing at least one song for each album. For example every song on Sgt. Pepper is a Lennon/McCartney original except for Harrison’s “Within You Without You. ”
There’s no doubt that The Beatles took a huge step forward artistically in 1964 with A Hard Day’s Night. Of course we now know that it was only the beginning of many huge steps forward The Beatles would take throughout the 1960s.
Marvin J. Markus recommends you get your daily dose of music trivia at music by day. You can read more about The Beatles there as well.
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by admin on November 28, 2009
Many people think of The Beatles classic film when they hear “A Hard Day’s Night” but the soundtrack album by the same name was a huge step forward for the band’s songwriting. Their first two albums included only 8 original songs each (along with 6 covers) and quite a few of those originals were not particularly good. A Hard Day’s Night was all originals (no covers) and for the most part these songs were a huge improvement over their previous originals.
From the first distinctive chord of “A Hard Day’s Night” the album has it’s own special feeling. High energy & classic songwriting. This album is filled with brilliant singles like the aforementioned title track that leads off the album & “Can’t Buy Me Love” along with gorgeous ballads like “If I Fell” & “And I Love Her. ”
Sure there are a couple of not so great songs on the album. Particularly I have never been a fan of “When I Get Home” which just sounds like a throwaway to me. I’m not a huge fan of “I Should Have Known Better” and “I’m Happy Just to Dance With You” either but they both have their charms.
One of my very favorite songs on the album is “Things We Said Today” which just has this perfect unique vibe to it. Great acoustic strumming with an irresistible McCartney melody. Perhaps my favorite part of the song is when it goes back into verse on the word “enough. ” It’s largely because of those smart little bits of songwriting that their songs still sound so fresh even 40 years later.
“I’ll Cry Instead” is another one of my favorites. It has sort of a faux country sound to it and I don’t normally get into The Beatles faux country songs. But this one and “I’ve Just Seen a Face” (from Help!) are two notable exceptions. I just love Lennon’s singing on this one. It’s a great catchy melody and while the lyrics are kind of silly, they somehow just work.
The album ends with strongly with “You Can’t Do That” & “I’ll Be Back. ” Both are songs that I didn’t get into much at first for some reason but that I appreciate quite a bit now.
If you are mostly a fan of the later Beatles music, it can sometimes be hard to get into their earlier work. But if you have an open mind and understand the context of the times, I think you can appreciate the brilliant tunes included on A Hard Day’s Night.
One bit of trivia that you may find interesting is that A Hard Day’s Night is the only Beatles album that includes only Lennon/McCartney originals. Why is that? Well, it’s because it’s their only early album that doesn’t include any covers. While many of their later albums are all originals as well, by then George Harrison was contributing at least one song for each album. For example every song on Sgt. Pepper is a Lennon/McCartney original except for Harrison’s “Within You Without You. ”
There’s no doubt that The Beatles took a huge step forward artistically in 1964 with A Hard Day’s Night. Of course we now know that it was only the beginning of many huge steps forward The Beatles would take throughout the 1960s.
Marvin J. Markus recommends you get your daily dose of music trivia at music by day. You can read more about The Beatles there as well.
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by admin on November 25, 2009
This is the first of a series of articles which will be trying to delve a little deeper into the life and times of the Beatles.
We will be looking at their history, their time in Hamburg, their time at the Cavern Club, their time in America, and the time they spent in the Studio, together with other fascinating little known facts that have come to light over the years.
Without doubt the Beatles are an iconic group, a one off, and although it is getting on for 40 years now since they broke up, their fame and influence is still as strong now as it was back in the 1960’s and early 70’s.
I grew up during the Beatles era, and everywhere that I have travelled around the world they are known, and loved. I remember being in a small nightclub in Thailand where there was a Chinese Beatles tribute band playing, and although I personally did not appreciate the sound that they produced, particularly the singing, they were immensely popular with the locals.
On another occasion I was on holiday in Peru, and half way up a mountain I came across a bunch of Peruvians playing their type of music, on pipes, but the song they were playing was Love Me Do.
So, who were The Beatles?
Well let me begin by telling you the basics, something which many of you reading this will know, but to many of our younger readers this basic information may be something which they have never got a handle on.
The Beatles were a pop group ( as they were called in those days) and they came from a city in the north of England known as Liverpool.
The group consisted of John Lennon who played rhythm guitar and vocals, Paul McCartney who played bass guitar and vocals, George Harrison who played lead guitar and vocals, and Ringo Starr who played drums and vocals.
Two other names were former members – Pete Best, drums, and Stuart Sutcliffe, bass.
I think if you had asked The Beatles what was their style of music in the early days they would probably have told you that they were strongly influenced by rock and roll, and skiffle. Later on this style did change quite a bit, but that was their early influence.
Now it is true to say that not only were they influenced by many earlier groups and styles of music, but they were quite an influence on many groups that came after them.
Their music, the clothes they wore, the things they did and said, all had an enormous influence on the young people of the day, 1n the 1960’s.
When eventually the group broke up in 1970, John, Paul, George and Ringo all pursued their own solo careers, and we will be looking at those careers in more details in forthcoming articles.
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by admin on November 22, 2009
When people discuss A Day In The Life Beatles producer George Martin is often the centerpiece of the conversation. Referred to as ‘the fifth Beatle’, Martin was instrumental in helping the Beatles achieve the ever-more complex soundscapes that filled their heads towards the end of their time together as a band.
The culmination of their fascination with pushing the recording studio to the very limits of the possible was the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album, which presented the Beatles in full-blown psychedelic regalia. The record employed everything from harpsichords to backward-masked lyrical tracks, and it is regarded as one of pop music’s greatest masterpieces of all time.
For the final track on the album, A Day In The Life Beatles members Paul McCartney and John Lennon pulled out all of the stops. Together with Martin, they constructed what can only be described as a song in 2 distinct movements linked by noisy, urgent crescendos. The two Beatles had written a few short verses independently of each other, and as neither of them had found a way to create a full song out of what they had recorded, they decided that the best thing to do would be to incorporate the two into a single track.
The transition between the two different parts of ‘A Day In The Life’ proved to be an early sticking point while recording. As can be heard on the Beatles Anthology, a simple piano bridge was initially inserted, along with the voice of a recording technician counting out the bars that the projected interlude would last. George Martin, at the request of McCartney, wrote a hasty orchestral score and presented it to a 40 piece group to record the 24 bars necessary to make the song whole. In order to make the orchestra sound larger than it actually was, their part was recorded and overdubbed 4 times, creating a cacophony of sound that to this day is enough to disturb the peace.
The raucous final crescendo was capped off by a single piano chord, reverberating into silence. The song is followed by what was originally the run-out track on the record, a mish-mash of Beatle-talk that was cut up and re-arranged by Martin into complete nonsense. Compact disc and cassette releases of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ tacked this track onto the end of ‘A Day In The Life’, and faded it out into eventual silence.
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by admin on November 19, 2009
In the 1960’s The Beatles a group from Liverpool, England invaded the USA known as the British Invasion. The group included Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Star; they would become the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. Selling over a billion records internationally The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums and EPs that made it to number one on the charts.
In 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney met in grammar School, at the time John Lennon had a group called the Quarrymen in which he later included Paul McCartney. A few days later young guitarist George Harrison was also include into the band. The Quarrymen went through a progression of names, including “Johnny and the Moondogs” and “Long John and The Beatles”. Sutcliffe suggested the name “The Beetles” as a tribute to Buddy Holly and The Crickets. Lennon’s first wife, Cynthia Lennon, suggested that Lennon came up with the name The Beatles at a “brainstorming session over a beer-soaked table in the Renshaw Hall bar.
In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked The Beatles number one on its list of 100 Greatest Artist of All Time. According to Rolling Stone Magazine The Beatles helped shape the 1960’s and their influence on pop culture is still evident today.
Today all of The Beatles music has been digitally re-mastered and with today’s technology you can easily find any of their music at any online MP3 store. With the many albums and songs created by the Beatles the search for music is endless and memorable.
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by admin on November 16, 2009
My all time favorite album turned 40 this week. The Beatles self titled double album was released on November 22, 1968. It’s better known as The White Album due to it’s white cover. It was The Beatles only double album and their only self titled album. I also believe it was their best album (and considering the competition that is saying a lot. )
Sure not every one of the album’s 30 tracks is up to The Beatles usual incredibly high standards. Songs like “Goodnight” and “Don’t Pass Me By” (sorry Ringo) won’t ever rank among The Beatles best and in fact they do rank among their worst. But even the not so great songs seem to add to the album’s character. And these few weak tracks are definitely exceptions and not the rule.
Some would say that these weak tracks are an indication that the album should have been a single album instead. I strongly disagree. 13 or so tracks probably would have had to have been cut to make it into a single album and there’s no way there are 13 tracks that could be cut from The White Album.
To me it’s the great variety of The White Album that helps to make it so timeless and so endlessly listenable. It’s the one album I seem to never get bored of. It’s amazing how I still hear new things in the songs all of these years later. I first heard The White Album about 12 years ago and I am still blown away by the nuances and musical layers of these songs. I wouldn’t call the album a “grower” as that term is usually reserved for an album one doesn’t initially enjoy and then grows to like. This is an album I initially loved and then grew to love even more and more over the years.
Songs such as “Martha My Dear” and “Honey Pie” may have seemed like “throwaways” when I first heard it but now they seem essential. These are brilliant songs that show The Beatles at a creative peak. They weren’t merely trying to repeat what they had already done, they were always looking for new song styles to try, new ways to create. If you’re the type that enjoys hearing the same song over and over again (hello Nickelback fans!) then sure this may not work for you but if you’re the type that actually likes to hear imagination at play then it certainly is.
“Revolution #9″ is often brought up as the biggest example of The Beatles “going too far. ” Once again I strongly disagree. To me “Revolution #9″ is a vital part of The White Album and I love that it was included. I think, still to this day, it’s the most unusual track ever to be included on a #1 album. That alone would make it an interesting listen. But it’s more than just unusual. It’s an extremely effective track for what it is. It’s aim is to be unsettling. To take the listener on a sort of stream of consciousness journey and to that end it works extremely well. While I do not listen to this track every single time I put on the album (I admit to often stopping the album at “Cry Baby Cry” and thus skipping “Revolution #9″ and “Goodnight. “) when I do listen to it, I enjoy it.
I far prefer that experiments such as that are included rather than hearing an album chock full of average tracks that all sound the same.
The contrasts of The White Album are brilliant. From “Helter Skelter” the album moves to “Long Long Long. ” That has to be among the most intense contrasts in rock history. “Helter Skelter” is the heaviest song The Beatles ever recorded and “Long Long Long” is the quietest. These songs are the perfect representation of what The White Album is. Variety, contrast, imagination, and excellence.
Matthew Yoho recommends buying acoustic guitars online. You can find vintage acoustic guitars and acoustic guitar beginner packs online too. The White Album has a lot of great songs you can play on your acoustic guitar such as “Blackbird” and “I Will. “
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by admin on November 13, 2009
The original Yellow Submarine album released in January 1969 is considered by most Beatles fans to be the worst album the band has ever released as it contained only six songs of the Beatles true Instrumentals (other tracks have been rather boring created by producer George Martin) and only four of these six songs were new. Two of the six were previously released songs "Yellow Submarine" 1966 and "All You Need Is Love" 1967.En 1999 a new album was released to coincide with a new version of the film Yellow Submarine on DVD. This new version includes all six songs from the 1969 album of original songs and nine others. The album was entitled Yellow Submarine. It is entitled "Songtrack" rather than "soundtrack" because it presents the songs played in the film rather than instrumental music that was presented in the original version. What was most remarkable about "Songtrack" published in 1999 was that each of the songs included have been remixed and remastered from original tapes, which is something that has not been done for the CD versions of their album (other than Rubber Soul & Help!) This gives songs sound very different from what one hears on the other versions and this is why I recommend that the Beatles fanatic buy this album, even if they already have 15 chansons.The Yellow Submarine is actually one of the 'Listening to the most psychedelic experience one can have with the music of the Beatles due not only to the sparkling new mix, but also because, for most songs on this album are among the works most Beatles psychédéliques.L 'album includes four new songs (new at the time, of course) "It's All Too Much", "Only a Northern Song," "All Together Now" and "Hey Bulldog" with songs from Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. The greatest thing about this album is that it saves four new songs that were released on the original album yellow submarine (where they have been largely ignored.) In particular, it is nice that " ; Hey Bulldog "and" It's All Too Much "is featured on this album as they are two of the best songs of the Beatles that many Beatles fans have never heard parler.De 1965's Rubber Soul album contains" Nowhere Man "&" Think for yourself. "From 1966 Revolver album contains" Yellow Submarine "(no surprise there!)," Eleanor Rigby "&" Love You To. "A From the 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album contains "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "When I'm 64," "With A Little Help From My Friends" and the title song, "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which sounds particularly different from the version we're used to. All songs on this album have been remixed and remastered from original tapes so they sound slightly different versions available on other albums of Beatles.De in 1967's Magical Mystery Tour album contains "Baby You're a Rich Man "(What a strange piece that is great) with" All You Need Is Love. "There are some reasons to get the Yellow Submarine. One is that the album is really enjoyable to listen because it is filled with great songs. Another is that it saves "Hey Bulldog", "Only a Northern Song" & "It's All Too Much" from the original album are mostly ignored yellow submarine. And another is that the songs included here are remixed and remastered from original tapes and they sound very different (and in most cases better) than the versions available on their official studio albums.
Marvin J. Markus recommends buying Beatles Magical Mystery Tour CD and The White Album Double CD online. Marvin said the White Album to be the greatest album of all time.
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by admin on November 10, 2009
The Beatles She Loves You was their first real break in the market for American music. The year was 1963 and the Beatles had already scored big time in their native England with the million-selling hit "I Want To Hold Your Hand." The release of 'She Loves You "granted to the group with the same level of success, and today, Capitol Records, headquartered on the other side of the Atlantic began to take note of this phenomenon is place in England. They exercised their option to release tracks by the group in the United States, and "She Loves You 'was their first choice. Accordingly, the Beatles She Loves You "is for many Americans one of the first songs they ever heard of the band. While the previous version by the band to make it Stateside hit a meager number 116 on the cards before being unceremoniously dumped on the radio, "She Loves You 'has found a rather tortuous way to the top was made in September but did not find much success until the group also released "I Want To Hold Your Hand 'in the United States a few months later. Already the biggest selling single of all time in the United Kingdom, (ironically just passed 14 years later by a song recorded by Paul McCartney's post-Beatles group Wings), The Beatles She Loves You would soon find occupies a unique place in the history of American music as well. In the first week of April 1964, "She Loves You 'was one of the Beatles songs claiming the top 5 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 charts – a feat never since duplicated. Having been republished on the Swan label, the track spent over 15 weeks in the American charts. The Beatles She Loves You ", with" I Want To Hold Your Hand "and their appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show helped largely to cement their popularity among American youth. The group finally offered a viable option for packaged crooners teenager who had been imposed by the record company in the mainstream music for much of the early 60s. The Beatles helped to legitimize the rock and roll as a cultural phenomenon, not just pap released by major labels to satisfy the youth market. With so many teenagers screaming for more, the group opened the doors to the wave of British bands invading the United States in coming years.
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by admin on November 7, 2009
The legacy of the Beatles, as a concert attraction, during their passage harassed nightclubs to baseball stadiums, is distinguished primarily by the deafening screams of female fans overcome by the appearance of the same group.
Consequently, the Beatles began to indulge their creative energy in the studio, a combination of sounds and crafting songs in a way nobody had tried before. The Beatles phenomenon did not really kick in until "Please Please Me", which has dominated the British charts in early 1963. This was the prototype British Invasion single: an infectious melody, charging guitars, and positively exuberant harmonies.
The Beatles are the best-selling music group in history. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums and EPs that reached number one, the more one earns more albums than any other group in UK Chart history.
The Beatles slid into each apartment Soviet cassettes, just as easily as they assumed their place on the world scene. They did something that was not within the power of Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: they helped a generation of young people free to grow in the Soviet Union. The Beatles have been placed at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, which is interesting because they really did a very psychedelic album. In fact, it's hardly an album in the purist sense as it in fact consists of two EPs turns together – the songs from their psychedelic romp "Magical Mystery Tour" and a collection of singles and B-sides the period surrounding.
Lennon began recording with his second wife, avant-garde conceptual artist Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney and Wings made successful soft-rock band with his wife, Linda. Harrison and Starr also recorded solo albums. Rumors that the Beatles meet persisted for a decade before Lennon was murdered in New York City in 1980. "Lennon" he said quietly, and shot Lennon. At that moment, Chapman fired five bullets into the rock star, hitting him in the chest, back and left arm.
Play John Lennon's Passover Plot showed him as culturally rich stories were strung sets of details. It follows therefore that the task of the artist is simply to give details, consumers of the art object can count on him to weave the narrative.
Lennon was often represented by artists in full costume hippie: long hair, jeans and wire-rimmed glasses. He sits cross-legged on a park bench with one arm on the armrest and the other on the back of the bench. Lennon released a corrosive set of songs with his new wife, Yoko Ono, and McCartney went on to form a group, Wings, which proved a good number of registrations of commercial success in the 1970s. Starr and Harrison, too, initially had some success as solo artists. Lennon and Ono Two Virgins (with its frontal and back nude photos of coverage) was published the same month as the Beatles and the outrage raised the point that the LP should be sold wrapped in brown paper.
The Beatles were an inspiration to those who take the long and winding road to freedom.
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by admin on November 4, 2009
I love all eras of the Beatles' career, but my favorite Beatles album is white and that may be why my favorite discs of the series The Beatles Anthology is a disc of Anthology 3. Many songs on one disc Anthology 3 are from the White Album. This article takes a track by track to watch all 27 tracks on disc one. 1. "A Beginning" – This orchestral piece composed by Beatles producer George Martin was originally designed as an introduction to the singing Ringo (Ringo and written) "Do not Pass Me By" on the White Album. I'm not a big fan of this track, but it works quite well as an introduction to Anthology 3. 2. "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" – This is a very early version demo of one of my favorite songs on the White Album. It's fascinating for me to hear such a lightweight version of the basic beginning of this song. It's interesting to me as a way to watch the creative process of John Lennon. 3. "Helter Skelter" – A very different version of the familiar about The White Album. Very slowly, like a Dead March. Somehow I think it is even more intense than the final version. Although I do not think they made the right choice by going with the faster version. 4. Mean Mr. Mustard "- A very cool demo homemade by John Lennon. As a simple song, anyway this is pretty close to the final version. Note "sister Shelley. 5. Polythene Pam "- Another demo house. I like to hear these early versions of these simple songs. 6. "Glass Onion" – Includes some weird gibberish of John Lennon. 7. "Junk" – This song was never released as a Beatles song. It will be released as Paul McCartney put on his first solo album in 1970. I like this version of this song a lot. It has a simple beauty. 8. "Piggies" – Pork Chops! 9. "Honey Pie" – The Beatles make music on the music-hall style. 10. Do not Pass Me By "- Definitely not one of the best moments of the Beatles, but it's pretty nice. Even the Beatles songs not so great there is usually some cool pieces hidden in there. I like the drumming on it. 11. "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" – This was a strange noise from the version most people are familiar with the White Album. It is difficult to specify precisely what explains this strange noise. I still see the ring "missing" and "foot" backing vocals. 12. "Good night" – another time not so great. Sorry Ringo! Although I think this one is more the fault of John Lennon (he wrote.) This is one of the few Beatles songs that never really grew on me. 13. "Cry Baby Cry" – Excellent. Not as good as the version on the White Album, but still very good and there are some bass sounds neat on this one we did not hear the final version. 14. "Blackbird" – Great song of course. 15. "Sexy Sadie" – I like this version much. It may be on par with the version of the White Album. 16. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" – is one of the strengths of Anthology 3. Although I definitely prefer the heavier version of The White Album that I love about this is getting to hear such a different vision of this song. 17. "Hey Jude" – Cool version. I like that nanana "does not always work as the official version. 18. "Not guilty" – This song was not released on a Beatles album. In fact, it has not been released at all until George Harrison put him on the self titled album in 1979. I dig the guitar sounds great on the outro. 19. "Mother Nature's Son" – Nice. 20. "Glass Onion" – Cool version of a great song. 21. "Rocky Raccoon" – I always liked the other version of this song amusing. Lyrics bungled do everything much better. 22. "What's The New Mary Jane" – This song is absolutely ridiculous and that's why I love him. It was never officially released until Anthology 3. 23. "Step Inside Love / Los Paranoia" – "Step Inside Love" is a song McCartney wrote for another singer (Cilla Black). It's very groovy to hear Paul McCartney sing this song and I always had kicked out of the stupidity that is "Los Paranoias. 24. "I'm So Tired" – Another of my favorites on The White Album (I have many favorites.) 25. "I Will" – Yeah, here is another. 26. "Why Do not We Do It In The Road" – I love hearing McCartney go crazy with the vocals. This may be the best example of him going all over the place vocally. 27. "Julia" – A beautiful song and a great way to close one side of disc closes on a single disc of The White Album.
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