FabSwingers.com forum: Huge wow moments in music you remember

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is it a He or a She, Boy George's 1st appearance on Top of the Pops

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bruce Springsteen concert. Will never beat that for me

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Queen at Live Aid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seeing Adele at Radio 1’s big weekend before she released Chasing Pavements

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Bruce Springsteen concert. Will never beat that for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh you mean in general. Not personal ones!

I’ll get my coat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First time I heard Running Free by Iron Maiden. Been devoted ever since.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Milli Vanilli being outed as fake!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

U2 live at Slane Castle

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Oh you mean in general. Not personal ones!

I’ll get my coat

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No it can be personal too as long as it wowed you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching the cover girl video by new kids on the block, it’s always stayed with me for some reason!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Earls court 1973 ..pink Floyd playing dark side of the moon live in quadrophonic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jarvis cocker

1996 Brit awards

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being at Live Aid!....from the first opening bars of Rocking All Over The World to seeing Queen and Bowie!...

PT x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Top of the pops showing a massive picture of the darts player Jocky Wilson when Dexy's performed Jackie Wilson Said (

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Jarvis cocker

1996 Brit awards "
Class

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The premier of Madonnas 'Like a prayer'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Staying up to watch the premiere of Jacko's Thriller Video

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"The premier of Madonnas 'Like a prayer'"
Thanks you just reminded me of Madge going Arse over Tit at the Brits

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Radio ones Mike Reid Banning Frankie's Relax

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

"Top of the pops showing a massive picture of the darts player Jocky Wilson when Dexy's performed Jackie Wilson Said (

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Haha was just thinking of that as I was reading down the comments

Lex

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reading all of your threads has made me realise what an eclectic mix we have

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yo everyone will laugh at this but I’m being 100% serious...

It was hearing milkshake by Kelis and realising that all the instruments were intentionally out of time and the guitar was out of tune and the Indian percussion was actually on real drums and that the synth was an actual real vintage synthesiser. And the time signature was all weird...

That’s when I was like “wow. Pop music can actually be really intelligent, futuristic and dumb at the same time”

It blew my mind.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The White Room and Iggy's transparent trousers

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By *ack4allMan
over a year ago

wirral

I was at the feyenoord stadium for the devision bell tour will never forget that weekend amazing

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Prince Blowing everyone out the water with his ROCK HALL OF FAME performance While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

queen "kind of magic tour" maine road manchester simply sublime

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By *ambsguynextdoorMan
over a year ago

Ely

Daphne and Celeste @ Reading Festival! Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to put them on that stage?!

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

"Daphne and Celeste @ Reading Festival! Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to put them on that stage?!"

Aw. Remember how good they were. Ooh stick you, your momma too, and your daddy!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I bought an LP once....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Prodigy at T in the Park!

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By *ik MMan
over a year ago

Lancashire

Knebworth...one of the best and longest days I can ever remember!

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

A personal one for me was hearing the premier airing of Radioheads "Paranoid Android" on Radio 1 with Mark and Lard.. after they played it they were both gobsmacked (As was I). And they played it again. Straight away

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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago

Hitchin

"Jarvis cocker

1996 Brit awards Class

I saw Pulp on consecutive weeks when they were touring This is Hardcore. I think they were at their peak as a live band then.

First show was Finsbury Park and they were great. But the second was a private Sony party where they played a 40 minute greatest hits set to a small crowd in a massive venue. I could stand wherever the hell I wanted and it was a privilege to see them at such close quarters.

The hunchback guitarist changed the Marshall on his amp to read Warhol.

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By *relanddirectMan
over a year ago

cheshire

Very lucky to have a few:

Springsteen at 14 in slane Ireland

Bowie glass spider tour

Green days first European gig in a pub in Dublin with 40 other people

Ozzy at a secret gig in Dublin to 200

U2 lots of times

Metallica in 88 with anthrax supporting

Billy Joel in New York

Michael Jackson in cork

AC DC in Sydney

Wendy james rubbing my 14 yr old face in her bare breasts back stage!

2 unlimited

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By *innypopsCouple
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Seeing the Beastie Boys play Sabotage live in Glasgow. Not a sad song but I was in tears... Definitely a moment for me. R.

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By *emmydog01Man
over a year ago

norwich

Wham the final and david bowie glass spider tore

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Hello caller you're through to Going Live, what's your question for 5Star?"

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

""Hello caller you're through to Going Live, what's your question for 5Star?" "

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone

Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood 'presenting' the Brit awards.

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By *ambsguynextdoorMan
over a year ago

Ely

"Daphne and Celeste @ Reading Festival! Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to put them on that stage?!

Aw. Remember how good they were. Ooh stick you, your momma too, and your daddy! "

They were as cheesy pop as anyone could get and looking back it was a clever act to create just that choice of gig was as random as it could be

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Jacko's hair catching Fire doing Pepsi advert

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Three Tenors, Tokyo 1999. Pure magic.

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By *hisCharmingMan
over a year ago

South Manchester

In music

Sex Pistols - Lesser Free Trade Hall Manchester

Personally

Stone Roses - Warrington Parr Hall 2012

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

Make Patton at the Forum singing a Zombie cover with a girl he'd picked out of the crowd on the king for a day tour

Mike Patton making no attempt to lip sync on their first top of the pips appearance

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"The premier of Madonnas 'Like a prayer'"

We’d just moved house & my priority was making sure my dad had re-connected the TV!!

R.E.M. at Milton Keynes 1995

J x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Prince live saw him twice amen

Take that with Robbie in 2011 bloody bloody good show

George ezra sexy as hell and can belt out a tuuuunnnnne

Fairly eclectic there me thinks

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

The Smiths - TOTP debut

Stone Roses - The Late Show

Oasis - The Word

Nirvana - The Word

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Also (personally) seeing Oasis play live at the 100 Club, in 1994, prior to the release of Definitely Maybe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was at the last gig at the Hammersmith palais, it was Robbie Williams first tour, bloody excellent.

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

There are many seminal moments for me but two stick out.

Seeing the Stones on TOTP doing Brown Sugar when I was about 6 years old was the beginning of a life long fascination with that band. Jagger wore a pink satin suit and they held an exhibition a couple of years ago and the suit was in it. It sent shivers down my spine seeing it at close quarters.

The other was George Michael’s performance at the Freddie Mercury tribute gig. His version of Somebody to Love was breathtaking particularly when you consider what George was going through in his personal life at that time; his Brazilian partner was dying of an AIDS related illness and George didn’t know if he was HIV positive. To draw on that emotion was stunning.

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By *anes HubbyCouple
over a year ago

Babbacombe Torquay

I was around ten at the time and an older cousin came to stay for a week in the summer holiday, she brought with her an album that remains my favourite to this day......Songs in the key of life.

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

Seeing Kylie on her comeback tour after she fought cancer. My friends will know I’m a huge huge Kylie fan and that concert is probably my all time favourite due to sheer emotions! Love that woman.

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

"First time I heard Running Free by Iron Maiden. Been devoted ever since. "

Studio or live?

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

""Hello caller you're through to Going Live, what's your question for 5Star?"

Let's not also forget...."Matt Bianco? You're a bunch of wankers" on Saturday Superstore

https://youtu.be/BeueudGAezA

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

On a personal note probably my biggest wow moment was Finsbury Park August 8th 1992 after a day of drinking, frivolity, and a certain Morrissey getting booed off stage, seven men walked back onto a stage together for the first time in 6 years - they stood there for what seemed like forever and joined 36,000 fans facing them in drinking in an atmosphere which was the most highly charged and electric I have ever known and which still gives me goosebumps when I think about it to this day...

...eventually that atmosphere erupted into sheer unbridled joy (and an earthquake - I kid you not!!) when one of those seven men took a microphone and as one with the crowd launched into "Hey you, don't watch that, watch this, this is the heavy heavy monster sound, the nuttiest sound around...."...

...what followed was 2 hours of sheer unabandoned delirium as 36,007 people celebrated the return of the Madnificent 7 - I saw skinheads crying their eyes out that day, everyone was absolutely deliriously happy, people fell over in the mosh pit and were helped back to their feet with a hug and a "You alright mate" and much more besides.

Not only one of my best gigs ever, but possibly one of the best days of my life.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching Marc Almond in his black leather on TOTP whilst playing with my dinosaurs....thinking "that's what I want my life in my life"

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By *olexMan
over a year ago

Hull

Possibly Milli Vanilli on totp & the cocks that would have your eye out incident!

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Ilkley

First time that Kate Bush appeared on TOTP in the Wuthering Heights video.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Peel was the DJ at our shool disco in ‘74.

Turned up in a Rangrover with an Afghan on and a huge dog with him.

Also seeing Lynyrd Skynyrd, original line up, at Brum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The first time I saw The Jesus and Mary Chain live and incoherent in concert - I’ll never forget the shimmering feedback

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"On a personal note probably my biggest wow moment was Finsbury Park August 8th 1992 after a day of drinking, frivolity, and a certain Morrissey getting booed off stage, seven men walked back onto a stage together for the first time in 6 years - they stood there for what seemed like forever and joined 36,000 fans facing them in drinking in an atmosphere which was the most highly charged and electric I have ever known and which still gives me goosebumps when I think about it to this day...

Not only one of my best gigs ever, but possibly one of the best days of my life."

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

L7 on the word.

Physical experience, the sonic wave washing over me at spiritualized in Nottingham Rock City, glorious aural pleasure

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

KT Tunstall live doing all the looped pedal stuff long before that ginger bloke from harry potter did it and became famous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When 6ix9ine got sent to jail

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"Very lucky to have a few:

Springsteen at 14 in slane Ireland

Bowie glass spider tour

Green days first European gig in a pub in Dublin with 40 other people

Ozzy at a secret gig in Dublin to 200

U2 lots of times

Metallica in 88 with anthrax supporting

Billy Joel in New York

Michael Jackson in cork

AC DC in Sydney

Wendy james rubbing my 14 yr old face in her bare breasts back stage!

2 unlimited

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Forget the rest , you shoved your face in Wendy James bare boobs when you were 14 . I could have died right there , you cant top that

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Not only one of my best gigs ever, but possibly one of the best days of my life."

I was also there on this day...

Morrissey was amazing

"To the National,

There's a country; you don't live there,

But one day you would like to,

And if you show them what you're made of,

Oh, then you might do"

An iconic moment in music history.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hawkwind at Beautiful days festival in Devon, the light show was phenomenal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When 6ix9ine got sent to jail

Who?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s cliche for me but ..... oasis @ Loch Lomond , before their knebworth gigs.

Stone roses Glasgow green, hearing the intro to i wanna be adored then Ian brown appearing on stage ... gave me chills.

First hearing the intro to slide away by oasis. was a wow moment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Second Summer Of Love And Acid House 87- 88

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In music

Sex Pistols - Lesser Free Trade Hall Manchester

The gig everybody claims to have been at nice !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wendy james rubbing my 14 yr old face in her bare breasts back stage!

Wendy James The 2nd Music Hussy After Blondie, U Have The Poster Too I dId, What Year Was That A i'm 47 !

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

Stone roses Glasgow green, hearing the intro to i wanna be adored then Ian brown appearing on stage ... gave me chills.

The Late Show "...fucking amateurs"

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By *airytaleOfNewPorkMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham/Telford

Not massive on music.... But I saw Oasis and The Charlatans at Finsbury Park in circa 2002-2003, was a great day!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went to see Genesis at Wembley, Then there were three. Sang at the top of my voice to all the songs. Had admired them for ages so it was a real joy to see them live. Gave me goose bumps

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Meeting John Parr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bart Simpson, do the bartman, first LP I ever owned

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By *ornylittlesubWoman
over a year ago

Grangemouth

Watching the supporting act, Mark Knopfler, at Braehead Arena....I couldn't have been more than 10 feet from him....it was mind blowing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mark Owen dropping sweat on me aged 13 at Wembley Arena *swoon*

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Change of key in Man in The Mirror. Now that’s a big musical moment!

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Stone Roses - Spike Island

I so wish I could have been there...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"KT Tunstall live doing all the looped pedal stuff long before that ginger bloke from harry potter did it and became famous "

This is deffo mine, on Jules Holland performing horse and the cherry tree. Mind blowing.

We saw L7 at Reading but i was so out of it i hardly remember it, gutted.

Also saw Nirvana at Reading, that was special.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

Jean Michele Jarre Rendezvous Docklands. -The first live performance I'd ever been to. What an amazing first live gig it was too!

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By *xperimentalistMan
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

"KT Tunstall live doing all the looped pedal stuff long before that ginger bloke from harry potter did it and became famous

This is deffo mine, on Jules Holland performing horse and the cherry tree. Mind blowing.

We saw L7 at Reading but i was so out of it i hardly remember it, gutted.

Also saw Nirvana at Reading, that was special."

I saw her doing it on Jools and then live in Leicester.

One of the regrets of my life, could have gone to Reading for Nirvana but for some reason lost in the mists of time I didn't

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