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Tickets on sale Now!!! 40 Years: A Version - Martin McAloon on Tour - Ireland and UK 2024-
#prefabsprout
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From Paddy: Have told the girls about tonight's listening party. Please say hello and thanks from me to all concerned. Very touched. And God bless the heroic doctors and nurses of the NHS.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Our childhood friend and founding member of Prefab Sprout, Mick Salmon would have been 63 today - he died mid December and tomorrow with his family and friends we bid farewell. Rest in peace Mick - all the young dudes.
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Words are trains... I've just been informed that Swoon was released 40 years ago today! Photographed on steps of Palladium studio with producer and buddy
@DavidBrewis1
@wendyfinnandmax
#prefabsprout
- C-30 C-60 C-90 GO!
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24 years ago this very night (this very hour) the Sprouts played their last full-length gig. Here we are with Jess Bailey (keyboard wonderkind) and good mate Mick Lynch at the Olympia Theatre Dublin! - When Red Eye was King.
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Cue fanfare... Swoon released 35 years ago today!
@DavidBrewis1
@wendyfinnandmax
@Prefabsprout
@prefab_sprout
Some expressions take me back...
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Happy Birthday PJ - the man who let the hat box rule his head. X
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30 years ago today Jordan: The Comeback was released (according to Wiki)- Here's
@ThomasDolby
putting the finishing touch to it.
@Prefabsprout
@wendyfinnandmax
Photo ©️ M.McAloon
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Cheers Tim
#timstwitterlisteningparty
and thanks to everyone for listening in and loving the record - I've thoroughly enjoyed myself. Martin x
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Birthday greetings Bro - lots of love Vera, Chuck & Dave x
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Thrilled to announce I'll be opening for Thomas Dolby in August - Manchester & London - Forty years in the making!
#prefabsprout
#martinmcaloon
#thomasdolby
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Happy Birthday
@wendyfinnandmax
- have a wonderful day - lots of love, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich xxx
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Here’s the fretless bass used on Horsin’ Around the other guitar is from my time in Slipknot before they unmasked. No, it’s my son’s
@jonniemcaloon
who’s in lockdown in Brixton while I’m sat by his Cradle of Filth, Korn and Avenge Sevenfold albums x
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Jonny Marr brought the mix of William it was really nothing over during the WLBD session – we then headed off to Dingwalls to watch Los Lobos – wow, this is turning into pop trivia
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Signed, unsealed and almost delivered - available Sat 15th June
@hmvNewcastle
@wendyfinnandmax
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Amazing - what started after a fish and chips lunch in Hexham turned into a year of gigs throughout the UK - astonishing to witness the effect the Sprouts songs have had on people and the warmth radiated back - a massive thanks to everyone who has supported and attended. M
A year ago the new live adventure with Martin
@CulpaFeliks
began and we heard the songs of Paddy
@Prefabsprout
again. Only a few dates left this year but those attending are in for a treat.
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I went 19 years without listening to Steve McQueen until last year’s reissues – still sounds great.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Bailey, Beggs and McAloon - the Enormodome awaits... or perhaps the bus to Bath
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I'm lost in music, caught in a trap, no turning back - rehearsals going well - tickets still available
#prefabsprout
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YES! I'm coming to Ireland in October to perform hours of Prefab Sprout songs:
1/10 Dublin Liberty Hall ,
2/10 Limerick Dolans ,
3/10 Belfast Empire
Tickets available May 10th
Prepare yourselves!
#Rocktober
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OK so at the moment I'm being two people - me and Paddy - same twitter feed - please forgive me - i should have said
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Great to catch up with
@ThomasDolby
(& special guest?) discussing Steve McQueen production. The years melted away. Thanks to Mark
@80sography
-
#prefabsprout
Ep
#62
of
@80sography
podcast is audio commentary of Steve McQueen by
@Prefabsprout
with producer
@ThomasDolby
and bassist
@CulpaFeliks
(plus special guest)
Wonderful guests discuss a perfect album by a brilliant band
Antiques!
#80smusic
#musicpodcasts
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Ice Maiden - Wendy sounds wonderful on it. From the very first song we did with Wendy ('Cherry Tree') onwards, I imagined her voice fulfilling an almost instrumental roll.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Desire As is possibly the reason
@ThomasDolby
agreed to make the album – he just didn’t want anyone else getting it. It’s beautiful. I got to play the piano on it - inside and out!
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Oh what a night, mid september... Thank you Liverpool - I had a wonderful time playing the songs I love - can't wait for the return match.
@Harvest_Sun
@liverpoolphil
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Aversion therapy anyone? Thrilled to announce my new UK tour "40 Years: A Version" will kick off in Ireland in October and continue throughout the year. All dates and ticket links available on
#prefabsprout
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The scream took some doing! And we had our Purple Rain moment at the end – with Apollonia by the bike
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Thanks to everyone who came along to Cardiff - Minehead - London
@ClwbIforBach
@ShiiineOn_
@Bushhallmusic
and all the promoters, venue staff & guitar emporioums for having me - loved every second of it! M
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single Tweet. Martin McAloon on tour
@prefabsprout
Tickets available here
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Our limited edition yellow vinyl release of From Langley Park To Memphis is available tomorrow (15th June) exclusively at all HMV shops or online at from 4pm.
#hmvVinylWeek
#hmvLovesVinyl
#prefabsprout
@hmvNewcastle
(what about a
#doubledenim
release?)
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SCARLET NIGHTS – A great song – the production’s an over blown 80s stadium sound (which we were aware of at the time) but the sentiment, lyrics, melody and chords transcend.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Steve McQueen’s estate never officially commented on the album title, it was nervousness in a notoriously litigious nation, that sparked the name change. Almost thirty years later I did correspond with Steve’s first wife Neile who was lovely.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Just remembered - I've a TOUR to promote - and it's getting closer!!!
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RARITIES!!!! The last few (23) remaining tickets for the entire tour are to found in Hull - Yes, it's Hull or the Highway. Thanks to everyone who's bought into my madness.
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All The World Loves Lovers • All Boys Believe Anything• The Ice Maiden • Paris Smith • The Wedding March – originally I had visions of joining these tracks together in a medley.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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The first time I heard Goodbye Lucille, Paddy sat at a piano and my brother Michael and his mate Paul Dent were chiming in on the Johnny Johnny refrain – it may have even been a waltz but that’s possibly a mix sentimentality and senility on my part.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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apparently Joni loved Desire As. Does this therefore mean she’s heard and liked my piano and bass playing? I’m still waiting on the call.
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One Of The Broken came to me while I was rewinding the Fostex B 16 tape machine. I started strumming, and singing, “I remember King David, with his harp and his beautiful, beautiful songs.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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What a year it's been - thanks to everyone who came to a show or promoted a show or missed a show or avoided a show - I love you all. Happy New Year
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Yeh, Pink Floyd get everywhere.
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Musician Matthew Seligman died today from COVID 19, he was a kind, generous & warm hearted man who touched my life and many other's, if you're of a certain age, he probably touched yours. Matthew with David Bowie - Heroes (Live Aid, 1985) via
@YouTube
RIP
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Wild Horses
‘Wild Horses’ is a simple song about an eternal truth: the loveliness of youth. And the inevitability of ageing. Told through an equine metaphor. (Phew. Straight in at the deep end.)
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Thomas, Paul Gomersall (engineer) Bernadette and Paddy with J - between sessions
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Doowop in Harlem
The synthesised sound of the JX3P organ looping, created the click which becomes the rhythmic waltz pulse throughout the song – (each time the note changes the pulse subsides then returns for the 2 and 3 beat) it’s all one sound.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Congratulations to Creative Director
@wendyfinnandmax
& team
@Sage_Gateshead
who curated the 1st
@bbcproms
festival outside London this weekend. Listen to full
@SELFESTEEM___
@RNSinfonia
concert tonight 9.45pm on
@BBCSounds
- MB&J x
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Checking the Test Pressing of Lions in my own garden... re-issue for
@RSDUK
- big thanks to my buddy Tony Daly at for spinning the decks
#RecordStoreDay
#PrefabSprout
#martinmcaloon
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We're very much looking forward to celebrating
@RSDUK
on 20th April with a special re-release of our first 12" single Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone). Find your local participating shop and join the party!
#RSD24
#prefabsprout
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Paddy needed a word not regularly heard in songs, so Mick Salmon our original drummer said Antiques
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Carnival 2000
Thomas gave ‘Carnival 2000’ a total makeover – an arrangement that injects some actual carnival into the backing track. Neil and Marty shine on this.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Elvis in the desert, hiding out like Howard Hughes, planning a comeback, thinking about gospel music brooding all the while about the crap many writers were churning out about him in quick cash-in paperbacks.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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MERCY – Paddy solo – he’s always reluctant to go down the exposed route – I think he considers it too “singer song-writery” –
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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‘Jesse James Bolero’ was something I had spent a long time programming at home; Thomas took it and. . . . .spent even more time on it! A continuation of the Elvis Alive In The Desert theme. But a little more abstract.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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One of the broken – I can’t really think of this album without associating it with the birth of my son Jonathan and his Grandad Tommy’s death (same week) Nov 88– the album’s a celebration of life. ME
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The Ice Maiden – Full disclosure – at 6 o’clock this evening while preparing tweets I managed to delete whole sections of twitter info – what follows is on the fly…..
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME typical Me!
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The production is all Thomas – the 30s style jazz band and sound effects are all honed from within his Fairlight. It takes a particular talent to make it all sound played and not programmed.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Very much looking forward to catching up with
@ThomasDolby
in August - it'll be like young times!!!
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A picture paints a thousands words - Phil Mitchell, a man who genuinely loved music - Bless him.
Phil Mitchell, Director Kitchenware Records,
@Prefabsprout
Manager, one of the kindest people in the music industry. 1956 - 2023 🤍 Photos: Brit Awards 1991, under a table.
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Thanks to everyone who came along to Irvine last night
@Freckfest
@HACIrvine
and massive thanks to John Douglas
@TheTrashcans
for singing We Let the Stars Go - a gent! M
Great 3 hr show from
@CulpaFeliks
Martin McAloon tonight. All the old favourites stripped back and given new life. Wonderful stuff. If you’re anywhere near Carlisle tomorrow, get yourself along.
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Happy Birthday Wendy
@wendyfinnandmax
- have a wonderful day and go crazy with the eyeliner! - All our love and see you soon MB&J XXX
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'All The World Loves Lovers' has a sensuous sound; but it comes with a dollop of scepticism.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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I used a sample of Tracey Ullman. She utters the words "I Want To Have You" while playing a character in Plenty, Fred Schepisi's film of David Hare's play. But Tom wisely replaced the sample with his own recording of Jenny.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Paddy had written an album of Bolero’s (Zorro the Fox) years earlier, also an album of Waltz’s in the late 70s but knocked it on the head after reading that Freddy Mercury was writing one Brother, we are, and always will be the champions!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Antiques! Every other sentiment’s an antique – so let’s get sentimental.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Kate Bush also tuned in to the idea of Elvis as the once and future king on one of her albums.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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I sometimes catch strange echoes of my Elvis preoccupations in later records and films. The scene in Blade Runner 2049, set in a decayed future Vegas
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Think I’ve been playing Bonny since I was 16 or 17 – it’s always been there… like a fingerprint or perhaps even a toenail
#timstwitterlisteningparty
- some expressions take me back!
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Jordan: The Comeback
The verse is pure Vegas – great chords Dm/G Dm D6 D7 – it plays like an auction ….and my fingers fold around them like a glove.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
Me (NOT PJ)
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Jordan: The Comeback • Jesse James Symphony • Jesse James Bolero • Moondog – Even while working on the demos of Jordan, these tracks constituted SIDE TWO. Loosely, they're the songs about /or inspired by meditations on Elvis.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Bonny track 2 already - I do a fair version of Bonny myself – all the parts – not quite the expression or vocal precision – in fact not even the correct words…or tune… but it’s all there – that’s the beauty of good song.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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The crazy Fairlight chuntering at 2.18 was Thomas pretending to be in Frankie playing Two Tribes (we’d been warming up with it while setting up the mikes) it ended up staying
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Wendy’s vocals behind “Your being lovely and your being good only depresses me – sublime and what great lyrics – knowing how oddly I’m behaving, I’m an air raid, leaving both us orphans and four fifths afraid
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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Carnival 2000 was channelling some of this same strange nostalgia; that sense of waiting for a future date, with mingled optimism and nervousness, then watching it recede in the rear view mirror.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Howay the Lads - Thrilled to be opening for my old flatmate
@ThomasDolby
on home ground - Newcastle City Hall
@O2CityHall
Friday 16th August
Get 48-hour early access Priority Tickets from 10am Wed 6 Mar 👉
#prefabsprout
#thomasdolby
#martinmcaloon
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Always loved Wendy’s “Turn back the clock” at 3.32 – it’s chromatic and doesn’t resolve on the expected note
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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I started to wonder, what kind of things he might sing about in this alternative world. How far he'd travelled in life, from humble beginnings to global fame?
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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The lyric is plain but truthful – I'm not crazy about lyrics which address the listener as "my friend" and I'll never do it again. After Paul Simon's 'Sound of Silence' I think the phrase should have been furloughed.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Between 43 to 49 second on WLBD my bass harmonics behind the lead guitar chime Here Comes the Bride – not many people know that… for very good reasons.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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All The World Loves Lovers – Doubling the bass with the guitar through the chorus – similar to Wicked Things on Protest Songs and a number of B-sides
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
ME
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Duran Duran reviewed Atlantis on a radio show commenting that they were still waiting for the intro to end and the song to start – aren’t we all?
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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The middle of Horsin’ Around from 2.20 is priceless – Paddy’s chords, Wendy’s voice the arrangement, the glockenspiel that Thomas plants between the action, the brass stabs and Neil just letting the whole thing float – absolutely stunning.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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MACHINE GUN IBiza Saturday nights in the disco pub in Stanley, Durham, once again drinking with Dave Brewis Dave is a mad Hendrix fan and somehow Paddy misheard something and there’s Machine Gun Ibiza entering with his axe.
#timstwitterlisteningparty
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I pictured an alternative ending to the Elvis story, one in which the glory of his musical life triumphed over the lurid decline the tabloids enjoy reheating.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
PJ
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Looking For Atlantis
The musical inspiration for ‘Looking For Atlantis’ was very simple. I thought it might make a change to write a song using a couple of chords, rather than. . .all of them!
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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And finally... very much looking forward to playing Strathaven Hotel
@FRETSCONCERTS
May 17th - tickets available this Friday at 7pm
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Paddy Joe? I could say a lot about the incorporation of real names, and apparently biographical details, into pop songs, but that is the pathway to underwhelming revelations ( see James Taylor- 'Fire & Rain', and Ace- 'How Long'.)
#TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Later that year I put Mike’s wayward cousin, Nick Cave to bed in a hotel room in Hamburg after finding him passed-out in an elevator, though we’ve never technically met.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... I'll be playing a few more shows this Spring - Thornton Hough, Wirral -March 31st ...
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