Rush - Dreamline

Sunday, time for a classic!

"Dreamline" is a song by the Canadian rock band RUSH. It was released as a single and on their 1991 album "Roll The Bones". The song peaked at number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and was a staple for live performances by RUSH, having been performed on every tour from the inaugural "Roll The Bones Tour" until the 2010 and 2011 "Time Machine Tour", when it was dropped. It was performed during the subsequent "Clockwork Angels Tour", where it was accompanied by the "Clockwork Angels" string ensemble and a video with a dedication to Neil Armstrong. It was dropped again on the 2015 "R40 Tour". In live performances, the bridge was extended to incorporate a solo by Alex Lifeson.

Bassist and singer Geddy Lee said: "I love the spirit of "Dreamline" and the way Neil captures that feeling of wanderlust and invulnerability that comes in a particular trying time in your life."

Martin Popoff said that the song is "strafed by a crouching-then-striking verse and clouds-breaking chorus. It is a track that proved to be strong enough to open the "Different Stages" live album seven years later and then stay tenaciously in the set for the "Vapor Trails Tour"."

AllMusic writer Eduardo Rivadavia called the song "gutsy" and also said that "Dreamline" is one of their best songs from the '90s.

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The Polyphonic Spree - The Spirit Of Radio

Thursday, time for a cover.

"The Spirit of Radio" is a song released in 1980 by the Canadian rock band RUSH from their album "Permanent Waves". The song's name was inspired by Toronto radio station CFNY-FM's slogan. It was significant in the growing popularity of the band, becoming their first top 30 single in Canada and reaching number 51 on the US Hot 100. It remains one of RUSH's best-known songs and was a concert staple until their retirement. Originally written by Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson, and performed by RUSH.

"The Spirit of Radio" features the band experimenting with a reggae style in its closing section. Reggae would be explored further on the band's next three records, Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure. The group had experimented with reggae-influenced riffs in the studio and had come up with a reggae introduction to "Working Man" on their tours, so they decided to incorporate a passage into "The Spirit of Radio", and as Lifeson said, "to make us smile and have a little fun".

Today's version is made by the American choral rock band THE POLYPHONIC SPREE, they are from Dallas, Texas that was formed in 2000 by singer/songwriter Tim DeLaughter. The band's pop and rock songs are augmented by a large vocal choir, and instruments such as flute, trumpet, french horn, trombone, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano, guitars, bass, drums, electronic keyboards, and EWI.

Leoncarlo Canlas - Violin
Paul Deemer - Trombone/Trumpet
Tim DeLaughter - Vocals
Stephanie Dolph Pirro - Vocals
Constance Dolph - Vocals
Nick Earl - Guitar
Elizabeth Evans - Vocals
Ryan Fitzgerald - Guitar
Thaddeus Ford - Trumpet
Jason Garner - Drums
Jennifer Jobe Penn - Vocals
Jessica Jordan - Vocals
Mark Pirro - Bass
Brianne Sargent - Cello
Dylan Silvers - Acoustic Guitar
Mike St. Clair - Trombone/Trumpet
Heather Test - French Horn
Kelly Test - Percussion
Poppy Xander - Piano/Keyboards
Natalie Young - Vocals

Today's tune "The Spirit Of Radio" is taken from the bands latest (Covers) album "Afflatus", was released on April 16, 2021 on Good Records. Video directed by Steven Gaddis, Josh David Jordan, James Pafford, Editing and Rotoscope by Steven Gaddis



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Fu Manchu - Working Man

Thursday, time for a cover. "Working Man" is a song by rock band RUSH from their self-titled debut album. In an interview on the Rolling Stone youtube channel, bassist and lead vocalist Geddy Lee said that "Working Man" is his favorite song to play live."Working Man" became a favourite among RUSH fans; the guitar solo appeared on Guitar World magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos list.

Like all of the songs on the band's first album, the song features original drummer John Rutsey, who was replaced by Neil Peart in 1974. On the 1976 live album "All the World's a Stage", the song segues into "Finding My Way" and a drum solo by Peart. After not being performed live for most of the 1980s and 1990s, it returned to RUSH's setlists during the 2002 "Vapor Trails" Tour. With the exception of the 2007-08 "Snakes & Arrows" Tour, the song appeared on every live setlist through the "R40 Live" Tour of 2015, the band's last. It was included on the live albums and videos of the tours in which it was used, except for "Clockwork Angels" Tour; for "R40 Live", it was played as part of a medley with "What You're Doing" and ended with a snippet of "Garden Road," a song from the band's early catalog.

In Tribute to The Professor, Neil Peart, FU MANCHU did releasing thier version of RUSH's "Working Man" that they recorded January 2020. All Proceeds will benefit Brain Tumor Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in his memory. Members of our band and our manager were in the audience on August 1, 2015 when this was the final song played by Neil, Geddy and Alex. We are forever grateful for all of the music and memories.

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Rush - Limelight

Sad Sunday, one of the greatest drummers has signed off. Neal Peart has died after fighting brain cancer for years.

On December 7, 2015, Peart announced his retirement from music in an interview with Drumhead Magazine, though bandmate Geddy Lee insisted Peart was quoted out of context and suggested Peart was "simply taking a break". However, in January 2018, bandmate Alex Lifeson confirmed that RUSH was retiring due to Peart's health issues. During his last years, Peart lived in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, photographer Carrie Nuttall, and daughter Olivia. After a three-year illness, Peart died of glioblastoma on January 7, 2020, at age 67.

To celebrate his family and bandmates we will play a tune in their honors, so today's Sunday classic is for you Neil Peart, RIP.

"Limelight" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band RUSH. It first appeared on the 1981 album "Moving Pictures". The song's lyrics were written by Neil Peart with music written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. "Limelight" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and the resulting attention from the public. The song paraphrases the opening lines of the "All the world's a stage" speech from William Shakespeare's play As You Like It; the band had previously used the phrase for its 1976 live album.

Released as a single, it charted at No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Top Tracks chart and No. 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and remains one of Rush's most popular songs. "Limelight" was one of five Rush songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010.

The phrase "In the limelight" means the center of attention. In the early days of theater, limelight was a device used to brightly illuminate the front of a stage, which put the main performer in a spotlight. The light was made by focusing a flame at a cylinder filled with lime that was projected through a lens - lighting technicians had to be creative before electricity.

Invented by the Scottish engineer Drummond in 1816, he used a core of limestone (calcium) that was heated to a glow by burning a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen which created a brilliant light that could be focused. The Limelight was first used in the theatre in 1855 and then became widely used by the 1860s. The advantage of the limelight was its realistic light production, but the limestone had to be turned as it burned and the gases adjusted to keep the light constant.

Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart: "Success puts a strain on the friendship and it puts the strains on your day-to-day relationship, and it's something that we did go through, you know, we're not immune to it. But we were able to overcome it just through our closeness and we were able to help each other with difficulties like that and then we could deal with the pressures and things and that."

Lead singer and bass player Geddy Lee: "Limelight was probably more of Neil's song than a lot of the songs on that album in the sense that his feelings about being in the limelight and his difficulty with coming to grips with fame and autograph seekers and a sudden lack of privacy and sudden demands on his time... he was having a very difficult time dealing with. I mean we all were, but I think he was having the most difficulty of the three of us adjusting; in the sense that I think he's more sensitive to more things than Alex and I are, it's harder for him to deal with those interruptions on his personal space and his desire to be alone. Being very much a person who needs that solitude, to have someone coming up to you constantly and asking for your autograph is a major interruption in your own little world. I guess in the one sense that we're a little bit like misfits in the fact that we've chosen this profession that has all this extreme hype and this sort of self-hyping world that we've chosen to live in, and we don't feel comfortable really in that kind of role."

Guitarist Alex Lifeson: "We were very, very careful not to let it get the best of us. That sudden success can really change you and you become lazy and you constantly have other people doing things for you and you lose perspective on why you're there and really what you're doing." William Shakespeare's 1599 play As You Like It contains the line "All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players" - a similar phase appears in the lyrics - "All the worlds indeed a stage, and we are merely players." Rush named one of their albums All The Worlds A Stage. >> Lifeson has said in interviews that the song's solo is one of his favorites to play live. He explained why to Musicradar.com: "I've always enjoyed the elasticity of that solo, particularly the way it sounds on the record. It has a certain tonality I just love. I do like playing the solo live, but I think I prefer listening to it on the album. On record, it has a magical quality to it - it really conveys the pathos of the song and the lyrics. I've never been able to re-create that live. I get pretty close, but it's never exactly the way it is on record. I'll keep trying, though." Rush appeared in the 2009 movie I Love You Man playing this song. Geddy Lee told Entertainment Weekly the shoot was a blast: "For us it was easy. We just played the same song over and over again 150 times. So we're playing and we got the pleasure of watching these comic actors do take after take. We were being entertained the whole time. I loved it. They're so nice, those guys: Paul Rudd and Jason Segel and Rashida Jones. And it came at a tough time, because we were on tour. It was right between a couple of gigs. That was our day off. So it was nice that it was such a fun experience, because we were pretty beat."

Giddy Lee told The Plain Dealer newspaper how the song's use in the movie has led to a more animated reaction when they play this at gigs: "The characters are going nuts while we're playing that song. Now I see kids in the audience imitating them and climbing on each other's shoulders. It's given them license to go completely crazy during the song. It's pretty funny from our point of view."

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Rush - Closer to the Heart

RUSH have released the second video from their upcoming R40 Live CD/DVD-Blu-ray set. Three weeks after giving us “Roll the Bones,” they have unveiled “Closer to the Heart,” which is embedded below.

Originally released on 1977’s "A Farewell to Kings", “Closer to the Heart is one of RUSHs best-loved songs. It was the first RUSH song to feature a non-member as a songwriter in Peter Talbot, a friend of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. It was issued as a single for Christmas 1977 and was RUSHs first hit single in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1978. "Closer To The Heart" was one of five RUSH songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010.

The live albums A Show of Hands and Different Stages feature performances of the song with jam-style playing after the last verse. On the 1981 live album Exit...Stage Left, the song segues into "Beneath, Between and Behind," and on Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland, it shifts into a triplet feel for the last verse. On the DVD release of the latter album, a polka rendition of the song is played during the end credits.

Although the original recording and most live performances feature acoustic drums, Peart used an electronic drum kit to play the song in concerts from 1984 to 1994.

In September 2014, the R40 box set was announced, which will commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the release of the band's self-titled debut album. The set will include five previously released live video albums, as well as various previously unreleased footage from across the band's career.

On January 22, 2015, the band officially announced the Rush R40 Tour, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of drummer Neil Peart's membership in the band. The R40 Live Tour was scheduled for performances in more than 30 North American cities; the tour started on May 8 at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and wrapped up on August 1 at The Forum in Los Angeles.

On April 29, 2015, Alex Lifeson stated in an interview that this would be the final large-scale Rush tour due to his psoriatic arthritis and Peart's chronic tendonitis. However, he did not rule out future projects with the band, including smaller tours and limited performances, and even stated that he would like to work on soundtracks with Geddy Lee.

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Today's tune "Closer to the Heart" is taken from the upcoming live album R40



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Rush - The Spirit Of Radio

Sunday, time for a classic.

"The Spirit of Radio" is a song released in 1980 by Canadian rock band RUSH from their album Permanent Waves.

The song's name was inspired by Toronto radio station CFNY's slogan. The song was significant in the growing popularity of the band. It is also the first song of the 1980s (for the band as well as in general), since Permanent Waves was released on January 1, 1980, and it was the opening track on the album. The band had grazed the UK Top 40 two years earlier with "Closer to the Heart", but when issued as a single in March 1980. It remains their biggest UK hit to date (the 7" single was a 3:00 edited version which has never appeared on CD to date).

"The Spirit of Radio" was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, RUSHs only such entry. The song was among five Rush songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010.

Promotional 12-inch copies were released in the United States late 1979 with the B-sides of "Working Man" and "The Trees", and the song being incorrectly titled "The Spirit of the Radio"

The final lines of the song ("For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall.../Concert hall/And echoes with the sounds of salesmen") are an allusion to the famous final lyrics from the Simon and Garfunkel classic "The Sound of Silence": "...the words of the prophets/Are written on the subway walls/And tenement halls/And whispered in the sounds of silence.

One of the lines of the song references the composition Morning Mood, which bears a strong musical similarity to the opening guitar riff.

The album version includes the sound of a cheering crowd just after Lee sings "concert hall." It has since become a tradition in live shows for the arena lights to come up at this point and the audience to cheer, mimicking the effect, as shown on every live DVD from Grace Under Pressure Tour forward.

On performances during the 1981 tour, the line "one likes to believe in the freedom of music" was changed to "one likes to believe in the freedom of baseball" as a commentary on the 1981 Major League Baseball Players Association strike. Geddy Lee still occasionally drops this change into the song when performing live.

The live version recorded in June 17th, 1980 at the Apollo in Manchester, England appeared as a playable song in the 2009 video game Guitar Hero 5 where it is considered one of the hardest songs on guitar in the game.

The song is sampled on the 1993 track, "Conchita Martinez", by Saint Etienne.

Enjoy todays tune!

First Video is an unofficial music video for Rush's Spirit of the Radio that I pieced together from concert footage of the 1984 Grace Under Pressure Tour.



Second Video is a Live version from the "Snakes and Arrows - Tour"



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Rush - Working Man

Now we've been dancing around the pole, erm there was no pole this year, oh well, but i done some bbq, eating herring and potatoes, all this mixed up with some alcoholic beverage at a small place called Broby. It was a pleasant wonderful day with friends where many laughs mixed with bath bombs in the pool, golfcar rally and horny dogs that tried to set on anything that moved. The evening ended with music in all its forms. and today was probably half of Sweden still in bed :) Because the roads was pretty empty on the way home.

So a band that was played pretty often during this evening was a band called Rush, so a tune with them suites fine today.

Working Man is a song by rock band Rush from its debut album, Rush.

The middle of the song features an extensive instrumental jam with two guitar solos by Alex Lifeson, and freestyle bass playing by Geddy Lee. It was voted 94th in Guitar World magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitar solos.

Donna Halper, then a disc jockey and music director at WMMS FM in Cleveland, Ohio is credited with getting Rush noticed in the United States by playing "Working Man" on the air. The song proved particularly popular in the working-class town. The response resulted in a record deal for the band, which gave her special thanks for her part in their early history and dedicated their first two albums to her.

The song features the band's original drummer and co-founder, John Rutsey, who was replaced by Neil Peart. On the 1976 live album All the World's a Stage, the song segues into "Finding My Way" and one of Neil Peart's drum solos.

"Working Man" was also featured in episodes of the television shows, My Name is Earl, That 70's Show and Supernatural. It was also featured in the 2011 film Goon (film).

Todays tune is taken from the debut album with Rush, but the Video is filmed during the Time Machine Tour!



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Heat - Daymare

Time to roll back some time, has been much focus on the band playing music in the present time, feel like soiling life a little bit. So some 70s hard rock will be todays focus, a german band that goes under the name "Heat"

Heat, sounds heavy, much like Sabbath topped by little Doors sprinkles and Rush candels. The songs have good dynamics with multiple tempo changes backed by breaks and solos.

Band members:

Drums: Marcus Töpfer
Guitar: Ingo Börner
Guitar: Marco Rischer
Voices: Patrick Fülling
Bass: Richard Behrens

The coverart is made by Ingo Börner

All these guys have been around in several bands for the last years, among them names like Grandloom, The Hara-Kee-Rees or Samsara Blues Experiment. So you bet they definitely know how to rock out and roll over with their hefty dose of 70s Rock. And there´s no need to become nostalgic. It is 2012 and they´re here to stay with an energetic Blues-drenched mixture of early Sabbath, Zeppelin, Jerusalem, whatever... Pull a name from your Classic Hard Rock collection, they have it all. The real deal. Hats off to Roy Harper.

Conclusion: Fans of hard rock 70 should have this record, at least in their collection.

Todays tune "Daymare" is filled with deep-tuned guitars, bright cymbals, thumping bass and a distinctive voice that sounds completely after Ozzy. Taken from the self titled debut, released 28 September 2012. Recorded in 2012 at the Big Snuff Studio in Berlin, recorded, mixed and mastered by Richard Behrens.



Upcoming Tour:

01.03.2013 // Berlin - Cortina Bob
04.05.2013 // Copenhagen (DK) - Heavy Days In Doom Town
08.05.2013 // Dresden - Groove Station (w/ Kadavar)
24.05.2013 // Potsdam - Nil (Watersessions)
07.06.2013 // Osnabrück - Bastard Club
08.06.2013 // Oostburg (NL) - Massafest
03.08.2013 // Stamsried - Voidfest [Show Day TBA]



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Rush - Headlong Flight

Today, we set sights on Canada with a Headlong Flight and the band Rush, a rock band that formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist and lyricist Neil Peart. The band and its membership went through a number of re-configurations between 1968 and 1974, achieving their current form when Peart replaced original drummer John Rutsey in July 1974, two weeks before the group's first United States tour. Rutsey's departure stemmed primarily from health concerns regarding his diabetes.

Since the release of the band's self-titled debut album in March 1974, Rush has become known for its musicianship, complex compositions, and eclectic lyrical motifs drawing heavily on science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy. Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers. They have been cited as an influence by various musical artists, including Metallica, Primus, and The Smashing Pumpkins, as well as progressive metal bands such as Dream Theater and Symphony X.

Todays tune "Headlong Flight" is the second single from Rush's studio album, Clockwork Angels. A lyrics video was also made available on YouTube, see it below.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Geddy Lee commented on the song:

"Headlong Flight" was one of those songs that was a joy to write and record from beginning to end. Alex Lifeson and I had blast jamming in my home studio one day before the second leg of the Time Machine tour, and I did not revisit that jam until a year later. Alex and I assembled the song to be an instrumental and its original title was 'Take That Lampshade Off Yo Head!," but once we saw the lyrics Neil Peart had written, I knew that the spirit of the lyrics matched the instrumental perfectly and it was just a matter of making them fit and writing the melodies.

The album "Clockwork Angels" is the 19th full-length studio album by the band, released on June 12, 2012. The album was recorded in April 2010 at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee and from October - December 2011 at Revolution Recording in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The official lyric video for "Headlong Flight"



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Yusuf Islam - Father & Son

Yusuf Islam originally and commonly known by his former artist name Cat Stevens. Is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, convert to Islam. On April 1, 2011, Yusuf launched a new tour website (yusufinconcert.com) to commemorate his first European tour in over 36 years scheduled from May 7 to June 2, 2011. The ten-date tour will visit Germany, France, Austria & Belgium and cities such as Stockholm, Hamburg, Oberhausen, Berlin, Munich, Rotterdam, Paris, Mannheim, Vienna and Brussels.

Steven Georgiou, born in 21 July 1948, Marylebone, London, England), was the third child of a Greek-Cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou (b. 1900), and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman (b. 1915). He actually lived in Gävle, Sweden until he was eight years old, and attended a local school for six months. He has an older sister, Anita, and brother, David. The family lived above Moulin Rouge, the restaurant that his parents operated, on the north end of Shaftesbury Avenue, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in the Soho theatre district of London. All family members worked in the restaurant. His parents divorced when he was about 8 years old, but they continued to maintain the family restaurant and live above it.

Songs such as ‘Matthew and Son’ and ‘I Love My Dog’ gained attention internationally, and within a year he was on tour with Jimi Hendrix, arguing over which of them would close the sets each night. Over the next three years he took the world by storm with the multi-platinum albums ‘Tea for the Tillerman', 'Teaser and the Firecat', and 'Catch a Bull at Four’. These included such classic songs as ‘Peace Train’, ‘Morning Has Broken’, and ‘Father and Son', helping make Stevens into the voice of a generation.

Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. Yusuf married Fauzia Mubarak Ali on 7 September 1979. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including 2003's World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes professionally by the single name Yusuf. His newest album, Roadsinger, was released on 5 May 2009.

At first glance, one may wonder why Yusuf, would choose the Swedish capital to launch a comeback after more than three decades. As it turns out, however, Yusuf has had a long relationship with Sweden on account of his mother, who is born in the town of Gävle, located about 150 kilometres north of Stockholm in eastern Sweden.

Well the first idea was to kick off in Denmark with a few days of rehearsals but it got changed and Sweden was the next option. Yusuf and his band arrived few days before the show day to get a chance to go thru everything, you know, to get a feeling of all the songs and tune all the gears for the tour. The set up was done on thursday 5th of May. First soundcheck was done the same afternoon took around 6 hrs and continued the following day on friday for almost the hole day/evening. I was very busy during these days so I have no pictures from the rehearsals, but it sounded very good the little I heard.

The fact that the show was sold out was expected, Yusuf made ​​a visit to Skvalan (Swedish talk show) which made ​​the tickets ran out the day after. I can not remember when I saw that the stage was so far back in the end as this.

Yusuf did a really good show, the voice sounded very good, although he is a bit older, maybe sometimes a bit soft-hearted and not like old times but he delivers what he should, mixing new with old, see set list below, then you will understand what I mean.

Here is some pictures that i took during the show.

Todays tune "Father and Son" is a very popular tune written and performed by Yusuf Islam (then known as Cat Stevens) on his 1970 album "Tea for the Tillerman”.

The song frames an exchange between a father that not understands a son's desire to break away and shape a new life, and the son who cannot really explain himself but knows that it is time for him to seek his own destiny. To echo this, Stevens sings in a deeper register for the father's lines, while using a higher, more emotive one for those of the son. Additionally, there are backing vocals provided by Stevens' guitarist and friend, Alun Davies, singing an unusual chorus of simple words, and sentences such as, "No", "Why must you go and make this decision?", beginning mid-song, so softly, they are only perceptible with a slight increase in volume towards the end of the song.


Yusuf Islam Sings Father & Son On BBC.


Cat Stevens during - Earth Tour 1976


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