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Chapter 8 - High Voltage
AC/DC’s debut album, High Voltage, was released on 17 February 1975 on the Albert label distributed through EMI, and was the first hard evidence that AC/DC were NTBFW (not to be fucked with).
The back cover was restrained enough, even slightly mysterious. There was just a series of photos of Malcolm, Angus and Bon and a contact address for their then fan club in Sans Souci in Sydney’s south, not far from where Bon made his official Sydney debut with the band. The artwork on the front was an entirely different thing. Again the brainchild of Albert’s Chris Gilbey, it showed a cartoon dog pissing on an electrical substation and a pair of what were presumably crushed beer cans.
Chris Gilbey: ‘I look at it now and think, how naff is that? But at the time it seemed quite, not revolutionary, but it was kind of confrontational. I had people saying to me, “You can’t have a dog pissing on the front cover of an album! That’s disgusting! You can’t do things like that!”’
Commercial artist Paul Power was working at EMI in Sydney and
put himself forward to handle the cover art with the assistance of
fellow EMI artist, the late Paul Winter.
Paul Power: ‘I recall a few people in higher positions who were
giving me shit about my lack of taste in rendering such offensive
album cover art. I nearly told the three nameless EMI honchos to get
fucked. I was under a lot of pressure. I thought I’d nailed what the
band was about. I was about to get fired, I could feel it, when who
should turn up? Bon Scott! I guess he heard the fiasco in the hallway.
He put his arm around me and said, “Isn’t this great? You’ve really
caught what the band is all about! I love it!”
‘The three execs were gobsmacked! You could have heard a pin
drop! Bon said to them, “I’m taking Paulie out for a beer. You don’t
mind, do you? I mean, artwork this fucking good should be
rewarded, right?” The three execs mumbled, “Right.” We waited
until we were outside EMI and laughed our arses off. He saved my
job and the High Voltage album cover.’
If the cover of High Voltage set AC/DC well apart from the cleancut
pack of the day, what was inside the album sleeve in tracks like
She’s Got Balls — the song about Bon’s ex-wife — represented an
even more brutal act of division.
‘She’s certainly got balls,’ Bon told Sydney radio station 2SM in
February, ‘she got mine for a long time.’
Stick Around was another insight into Bon’s love life at the time,
his inability to hold onto a woman for more than one night and his
failure to understand why.
‘I got a good song out of it,’ he told 2SM. ‘They still leave. Now
I sing it every night in bed.’
Show Business was a preview of what was to come from Bon
about life on the road, while Little Lover, a song Malcolm had been
toying with since he was about 14, was originally called Front Row
Fantasies but was changed to protect the innocent. And the not so
innocent. After all, Bon wrote the lyrics about Angus, ‘the most
prominent littlest lover that I know’.
Like Baby, Please Don’t Go, Love Song — as it’s called on the
album — dated back to Dave Evans’ time with the band and was
originally known as Fell In Love. Bon had rewritten the lyrics. George
Young and Harry Vanda lit up when they first heard it, believing it
could do what the 11-minute epic Evie had done for Stevie Wright.
‘We’re not entirely debauched,’ Phil Rudd told 2SM about Love
Song in a rare interview grab. ‘We’ve got our soft spots, y’know.’ ‘Speak for yourself!’ Bon fired back.
Interestingly, the single was called Love Song (Oh Jene) thanks to
a spelling mistake. It was to have been Love Song (Oh Jean).
High Voltage was launched at the Hard Rock Café in Melbourne
on 19 February. Admission was one dollar, or free with ‘an AC/DC
eyeshade’, a sun visor-type fashion accessory inexplicably popular at
the time.
By that stage, Bon had shaved his hair short, as a large portion of
the band’s audience in Melbourne were Sharps. He thought that if he
couldn’t beat them — well, not all of them at once, anyway — the
next best thing was to adopt at least part of their look.
Not that he or anyone else in the band was scared. In fact, a fight
one night at the Council Club Hotel between the band’s road crew
and the notorious Heidelberg Sharps ended in a clear victory to the
AC/DC camp.
As far as friend John Swan was concerned, this tenacity,
particularly of Malcolm and Angus, was very much in keeping with
the old line that it’s not the size of the dog that counts, but the size
of the fight in the dog.
‘The boys — Malcolm and Angus and Bon — would come off the
stage because some idiot had fucking thrown a bottle or was abusing
Bon, and we were at the side of the stage and they’ve gone straight
off the stage into it. They’re not the tallest guys in the world, they’re
not the best-built guys in the world, but I tell you what, don’t
fucking upset them. You wouldn’t think there would be very much
fight in them but . . .’
Shortly after the album release, bass player Paul Matters joined
the band, following the recommendation of George Young, who had
seen him perform with Newcastle outfit Armageddon.
Given that AC/DC’s record company Albert’s were based in
Sydney and the city was yet to fall to the band’s assaultive charms, a
reception was held there for the release of High Voltage, followed by
a string of proud homecoming nights at Chequers.
But when the album’s first single, Love Song (Oh Jene) backed
with Baby, Please Don’t Go, was released on 3 March it was still
Melbourne and Adelaide radio that registered the bulk of the
attention — but for Baby, Please Don’t Go rather than the more
hearts-and-flowers, prog-rock-styled Love Song.
It peaked at number 10 on the national charts the following
month, and it was on the back of this success that the band made
their first television appearance outside of ‘Countdown’, playing
Baby, Please Don’t Go on a telethon appeal in Melbourne.
In early March, Matters was sacked after just a few weeks and
George again filled in on bass. By that time a trip to the UK was in
the planning stages and the band went back into Albert Studios to
record a new single.
They had loved the title of their album for its imagery and its
energy and felt that it represented everything AC/DC stood for, so
they decided to take it one step further and write a song called High
Voltage. Albert’s Chris Gilbey didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Chris Gilbey: ‘I remember after we’d started marketing the album
and it was doing very well, George and Harry came in and played
me this rough mix they had of a song called High Voltage. I said,
“For Christ’s sake, guys! We’ve got the album out called High
Voltage, now you’re bringing me a bloody song called High Voltage!
It’s too late to pull the album, add another track, there’ll be a lot of
disappointment blah blah blah.” So I was thinking, well, what the
hell are we going to do?’
Despite Gilbey’s concerns, High Voltage would be released as a
single. George played bass on the recording but, as good as he was,
it wasn’t a long-term solution, so auditions were held at Lansdowne
Road.
The missing piece they were looking for arrived on 16 March. His
name was Mark Evans. Having grown up in the no-nonsense
Melbourne suburb of Prahran, 18-year-old Evans’ background was
perfect.
Steve McGrath, a roadie with AC/DC, tipped him off that the
band were looking for a guitar player. Evans knew of the group,
having seen them on ‘Countdown’, and went down to meet them.
It was a Saturday and Evans was given a tape of the High Voltage
album to listen to so he could prepare himself for his audition the
following day, which, he discovered, was for a bass player not
guitarist.
It didn’t really matter. He had begun playing guitar when he was
14, before switching to bass at the age of 17. Even though he had
little more than 18 months’ bass-playing experience under his belt, it
was a role he was comfortable with.
After his audition, Evans went to the Station Hotel and had a
fight with a bouncer, which resulted in him being barred from the
hotel. The following Tuesday night, when he went back to see
AC/DC play, security not surprisingly enforced the ban from two
nights earlier and wouldn’t let him in. Bon, who Evans had never
met before, went in to bat for him. What Evans didn’t know when
Malcolm told him AC/DC were playing at the Station that night was
that he had already been chosen as the new bass player in what was
his first serious band.
The timing of the gregarious Evans’ arrival couldn’t have been better
for his own career or for grounding the band with a solid line-up. And
with Evans on board, Malcolm, who, like George, had played bass
from time to time over the past few months, could move permanently
back to guitar. AC/DC were then able to present a unified front for their
legendary 23 March appearance on ‘Countdown’ performing Baby,
Please Don’t Go.
The band ran through the song at rehearsals, then Bon
disappeared right up until the taping of the show. At the last minute
he emerged dressed as the planet’s most disturbing schoolgirl.
Hilariously funny as he looked — the perfect 69 opposite to Angus
in his schoolboy suit — there was something strangely threatening
and dangerous in Bon’s manner and actions.
Sunday evening family television would never be the same again,
and all to get a rise out of ‘Countdown’ host, Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum.
Angus: ‘Bon came up with the idea. He thought, well, I’m going
to shock! So he went out and got that schoolgirl thing. Bon thought,
well, if we come along and be who we are, he [Meldrum] will just
walk away [thinking], “Oh yeah, ho hum!” But when Bon showed
up like that, he just went nuts!’
Billy Thorpe recognised a lot of what he used to do in some of
Bon’s antics.
Billy Thorpe: ‘We used to have beer drinking competitions and
wet T-shirt contests with jugs of beer and people pouring beers over
their heads. It was all about alcohol. I used to get away with murder
and Bon watched what worked, like we all did — like I stole it from
[Johnny] O’Keefe. So I saw a lot of myself in Bon. Once again, I’m
not saying that Bon Scott came out of Billy Thorpe, but I definitely
was an influence on him, as were other people.’
Follow-up performances on ‘Countdown’ — which between
November 1974 and December 1976 would see them appear on the
show no fewer than 38 times, either in person or on video clip —
were less outrageous but no less theatrical. It was all about making
maximum television impact, so ‘Countdown’ appearances were
quite deliberately made into events.
While his schoolboy outfit was the most favoured for live work,
for one appearance on the show Angus was transformed into Super
Angus, for another a pilot in a home-made plane. Most memorable
— apart from Bon’s schoolgirl get-up — was Angus dressed in an
impossibly hot gorilla suit in a cage, being dragged along by Bon
dressed as Tarzan.
‘Countdown’ producer and director Paul Drane recalls:
‘Before the show started we got Angus into the gorilla suit and in
this cage, which we elevated up above the audience into the lighting
grid before the audience came in. He’s suspended up there inside this
gorilla suit — which would not have been all that comfortable, I
shouldn’t imagine — with his guitar, and being really, really quiet.
The other guys are somewhere on the studio set.
‘So the audience came in and they didn’t even know Angus was
there. And we dropped him down into the crowd after the intros —
so he’d probably been up there for nearly half an hour — and they
just went absolutely berserk. It was just incredible.’
At that time, theatrics weren’t confined to the band’s
‘Countdown’ appearances. Michael Browning virtually had an inhouse
carpenter at the Hard Rock Café, who was able to knock
together almost any idea that sprang into their minds.
One week it was a huge spider web made of rope and Angus would
do a Spiderman routine, or Bon would come out as a spider in a suit
with multiple arms and legs. On another occasion, there was a
telephone booth on stage in which ‘Clark’ Ang was meant to transform
himself into Super Ang. Bon put a stop to that and locked Angus in, or
perhaps the door simply stuck and Angus couldn’t get out.
All these ideas fitted comfortably with the very era Angus’
schoolboy suit came from.
‘Just being in high school [was the inspiration for these theatrics]
and, believe it or not, watching Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Wile
E. Coyote,’ he told Ben Wener in Orange County Register on 13 April
2001. ‘They’re blowing the hell out of each other, you know?’
The power of their live shows, coupled with the spectacle of what
they presented on ‘Countdown’, was having the desired effect. On
20 April, the band played a show at the Myer Music Bowl in
Melbourne billed as the Australian Concert for Bangladesh,
organised by Freedom From Hunger, with Daddy Cool at the top of
the 11-band bill and AC/DC in sixth place after Hush.
Bon arrived again dressed as a schoolgirl, seemingly unconcerned
that his makeup would run in the rain that tumbled down that day.
Though the attendance was affected by the poor weather, most
waited until after AC/DC played before leaving.
In Sydney, they appeared at the Hordern Pavilion for Channel
Nine’s new program, ‘Polaroid In Concert’, which gave the band
their first national TV exposure as a blistering live act, as opposed
to ‘Countdown’ where they performed to a backing track with live
vocals. This was the real deal.
Their balls-out attitude, a general low tolerance for bullshit and
a seeming delight in outraging the establishment led to an interesting
observation in RAM magazine on 19 April. Probably for the first
time they were labelled a punk band in an article headed up: ‘AC/DC: Australia has punk rock bands too, y’know.’ Australian
Rolling Stone also got involved in the name calling, referring to
AC/DC as ‘Melbourne’s biggest punk band’.
But despite the fact that, at the time, they were playing ‘Heavy
Metal Nites’ at the Hard Rock Café, in a very broad sense the punk
tag fitted. AC/DC were street punks, just as Elvis, the early Stones,
Pretty Things, The Who, The Small Faces and The Kinks had been,
and had no problem calling a fucking spade a fucking spade.
What was strange was the timing of the RAM and Rolling Stone
declarations. The Sex Pistols wouldn’t play their first show for another
seven months and The Clash didn’t appear publicly until August 1976.
Angus’ hellish stage demeanour certainly did little to quell
thoughts that AC/DC really were out to pillage and destroy the lives
of decent folks. At the end of the week, his school suits were a public
health risk, thanks to a combination of sweating a large portion of
his body weight into the clothes, cigarette smoke and generous
smears of snot. He was continually amazed that the girls at the front
of their shows were quite happy, even honoured, to be showered in
his saliva, sweat and mucus.
And there was certainly nothing polite and refined about
AC/DC’s blistering live set at the time, which was drawn largely
from the High Voltage album with various covers by Chuck Berry,
the Stones and even Elvis Presley hip-shakers like Heartbreak Hotel.
While Angus’ schoolboy character was becoming more
established, Bon still opted to dress up or sometimes down for
special occasions, as was the case at a show at Melbourne’s Festival
Hall with Split Enz and hugely popular headliners, Skyhooks.
Bon wasn’t about to be overshadowed, so he dressed as Tarzan in
an almost painfully small loincloth and swung on a rope between the
PA stacks. It worked perfectly at rehearsals but Bon’s physics sums
didn’t add up at showtime.
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Chapter 19 - Back In Black
Malcolm wasted no time introducing Brian to AC/DC’s number one philosophy: we do what we do, we play what we play and what critics think doesn’t matter
a fuck. No discussions. End of story.
It took a few days for the situation to fully register with Brian. He had big shoes to fill.
‘I’m going to be nervous at first, no doubt,’ he told Sounds’ Dave Lewis on 19 April 1980, ‘but I’ll give it my best shot, you know . . . I just hope they give us a chance.’
Brian’s last gig with Geordie had been on the weekend of 21 and 22 March at the Heaton Buffs in Newcastle. They were delighted for him, although typically he felt guilty that he was effectively putting them out of work for a few weeks until they got another singer. But when he was able, he made sure that things weren’t too bleak for them financially, as did his new employers.
‘AC/DC said, “Yeah, we understand,”’ Brian told The Interview in November 1980, ‘and made a lovely little gift to the boys in Geordie . . . and some money, until they got a new singer.’
When the March issue of French magazine Best hit the stands, its readers’ poll results must have been dizzying for Brian. They read as if it had been completed exclusively by AC/DC fans, with best singer going to Bon, best band to AC/DC, best live band, AC/DC, and best musician, Angus.
That year, The Angels did two European tours with Cheap Trick, and through their gigs in France were able to confirm the poll results first-hand.
Angels guitarist John Brewster recalls:
‘We did Nice and went down a storm, but it was a very aggro, very male-dominated audience — they go berserk in France. Cheap Trick came on and they got pelted with cans and things. It was heavy stuff, and it was looking really dangerous.
‘They didn’t know whether they were going back on stage or not, and then one of them turned around and said, “Would you guys come back on with us?” So we all went back on stage and we did Highway To Hell. And fucking hell! We tore it up! The crowd went
bananas. There was like 10 of us on stage — four guitarists, two bass players, we just plugged in to whatever we could find. Robin Zander could sing Bon Scott type of stuff brilliantly.’
Rehearsals, which began in April at London’s E-Zee Hire Studios, were originally to run for three weeks but were cut to just one when an opening came up at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, in the Bahamas. The Bahamas move was partially tax related and partially due to a lack of studio availability in the UK, their preferred working environment. Polar Studios in Sweden — owned by Abba and once used by Led Zeppelin — was an option at one point, but Abba were using it and AC/DC didn’t have the time to sit around and wait until it was available.
Work began in the Bahamas in the middle of April and ran until May, with the Highway To Hell team of producer Mutt Lange and engineer Tony Platt.
The band had never been to a place even remotely like the Bahamas, where many of the locals were lizards and frogs and a decent beer was something in a travel brochure. The locals, meanwhile, probably wondered what these five pale, slightly built,
little guys had to do with the sun and sand.
But the weather wasn’t exactly tailor-made for the beach when the band arrived. The area was being lashed by tropical storms, so the most basic of necessities — like a regular, ongoing supply of electricity — was a problem for much of their first week. And of course, with no power, they couldn’t make any noise; at least not the level of noise they came intending to blast out in the serene environment.
Being unable to work lessened the frustration of their guitars being impounded at Customs for several days and having to wait for their other equipment to be freighted over from the UK. But it wasn’t just officialdom and the elements that had the band in their sights.
There was the large, intimidating woman who ran the less than five-star accommodation where AC/DC were staying. There were also her warnings about thieving by locals and she provided spears that were used for fishing just in case things got a little rough with
the natives.
Brian had fears all his own. All the band knew of him was from a rehearsal room, and working in a high-tech studio he wouldn’t have the same racket to hide behind — everyone would be able to hear his every breath.
The song titles were all pretty much in place. What Do You Do For Money Honey, for example, was a title George Young had come up with during the Powerage sessions. Apart from that, all the band had were riffs; there were few songs as such, just ideas that Malcolm and Angus had been working on before and since Bon’s passing.
Apart from the week’s rehearsal in London, the band hadn’t had a chance to work on the material as a unit: there simply hadn’t been time. Now there was even less, and any lyrics that were written while they rehearsed in London and on the way to the Bahamas had to be completed in the studio.
To his amazement, Brian was given first crack at them, although he knew full well that they would be subject to input from Malcolm and Angus. He was honoured, but it was just one more additional pressure.
Angus couldn’t think of anything worse than attempting to gain mileage from the death of their friend by looking to the lyrics Bon had been forging for the new album. It was a simple matter of respect to Bon and courtesy to Brian.
Phil Carson: ‘Bon didn’t write any of it. Malcolm and Angus did what they always did, and write the riffs and the basis of the music, and they would generally leave it to Bon to write the lyrics and come up with the melodies. And that’s what they did with Brian. Brian came up with every single melody and every single lyric.
‘If you look at the lyrical content of Brian Johnson-AC/DC, it’s maintained the direction of where Bon was, but takes it to a new level. Brian has got an incredible sense of humour, and he’s able to use double-entendre lyrics — little bit tongue-in-cheek with some of his stuff, even the song titles are a little tongue-in-cheek — but he’s able to do that without coming off being at all cheesy.
‘Please don’t listen to anybody who says anyone else wrote those songs — Brian Johnson wrote those songs. I was the A&R man, I know who wrote the songs. So, that’s it.’
Brian’s nerves were calmed the night before they were due to start work, but not initially with the most pleasant of sensations. He woke in a cold sweat and sensed Bon was standing looking down at him. Something reassuring passed through him: maybe it was just a dream.
Once they settled into the studio, there was a quiet excitement and optimism. The rough songs had everyone pumped up and the general mood was that a truly great album was within reach. And absolutely nothing less than a landmark recording was what was needed.
With Bon, the band had been on the brink of something huge, but if this didn’t work, if whatever they came up with wasn’t readily accepted as the next step in the band’s career, they were facing extinction. You’re only as good as your last album, and that last album had involved a man who was not only irreplaceable but had been on his way to becoming a legend globally.
If this was to be the last thing they did as a band, it had to be the strongest possible statement: there could be no excuses and no second chances. But rather than be a negative, the situation made for the perfect team-building formula.
Tony Platt (engineer): ‘These are not people that get tense in the way that normally people get tense. They kind of focus it towards getting the job done. It really was like a load of mates going to make an album and everybody [in the band] was in roughly the same situation — of course, they’d not made a whole mess of money out of Highway To Hell, because at that point in time it really hadn’t sold a lot of albums.
‘Everybody was on the same per diem and we all kind of just tried to eke it [the budget for the album] out and make it last and so on.
So there was a real sense of camaraderie about it and it was very close.’
Platt had to deal with the fact that Compass Point, like the Roundhouse Studios back in London where Highway To Hell had been recorded, was sonically ‘dead’ and so employed the same techniques to rectify it as he had for that album.
‘The thing about AC/DC — or the thing about Mal’s approach to the sound of the band — was that he really didn’t like big echoes and stuff like that. I think possibly because they wanted to put some kind of clear blue water between them and bands like Zeppelin. They wanted it really dry and in your face. So this technique of using a roomy kind of ambience really worked very well on their music.
‘Having kind of debuted that on Highway To Hell, when we went in to do Back In Black I’d got a clear idea of how I wanted to go about recording things, and I made a point of recording quite a few ambience tracks.
‘When we were putting the tracks down, I made sure there were a couple of room microphones out there so that when you listened to the album, you felt like you were in the same space as the band were when they played it.’
Malcolm had been a student of sound, song and rhythm for a lifetime himself, and the tutoring of George, along with the confidence he had gained by doing Highway To Hell without his older brother’s direct input, was all coming to the fore. Although he respected Lange and Platt, Malcolm stamped that authority on the sessions right from the recording of the first song, You Shook Me All Night Long. He was not at all impressed with the changes to the rhythmic accents in the song.
Tony Platt: ‘We recorded the choruses of You Shook Me All Night Long and I can’t remember exactly how the emphasis was, but we hadn’t recorded it as “You” — bomp — “shook me all night . . .”
It wasn’t quite like that. There was a slightly different accent that we put onto it, and then Malcolm heard it and said, “No, the way I’d heard it was that there was that space in there.” So we had to go back and do those again.’
On Let Me Put My Love Into You, the band were concerned that the original last line in the chorus lent itself too much to a pre- or post-sex cigarette. It was simply too explicit — the result, no doubt, of the magic rum and coconut milk elixir, the fuel of choice for the
album sessions — and had to be changed.
On the other hand, there was nothing lighthearted or ribald about Hells Bells, with its Old Testament doom and destruction imagery. It first surfaced during the rehearsal sessions in London, partly courtesy of the title of Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue and then sealed by the storms in Nassau.
The tumbling phrasing and timing of Brian’s vocal on Back In Black was styled on jazz singing and the riff was something Malcolm came up with during the Highway To Hell tour. Using an acoustic guitar, he had recorded it onto a cassette and, unsure if the song was any good, gave it to Angus to see what he thought. Unsurprisingly, his younger brother gave it the thumbs-up.
Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution was the last song to be recorded. The title was believed to have been based either on a line that Bon threw at a furious landlord during an argument over the volume of his stereo, or came from an expression Angus used back in 1976 in London during the band’s days at the Marquee amid environmental concerns about the noise. In any event, Malcolm casually threw the song together sparked by a riff Angus came up with when they found they needed an extra track.
Tony Platt: ‘Mal stayed behind at the studio when we all went out to dinner that night, and the assistant engineer — a big black guy called Benji — played drums while Mal was knocking out a few ideas. When we came back again they played us this thing that they’d put together and everybody just went, “Whoa! That’s it!”’
Brian’s opening vocal on Noise Pollution also captured a loose jazz feel out of him searching for a groove and quickly finding one. He sounds like a man of the cloth giving a sermon. What’s that sound right at the start? It’s Brian having one last drag on his
cigarette before he begins. Throughout the entire sessions, Brian sang like a man possessed; someone who, like legendary 1930s blues artist Robert Johnson, had traded his soul for a supernatural lung capacity and octave range.
But he found, just as Bon had, that when it came to vocals, Lange was an absolute perfectionist.
Tony Platt: ‘Mutt is very, very particular about getting every line of a vocal to be absolutely spot on. And quite rightly so, because when you’ve got something which really just consists of two guitars, bass, drums and a vocal, every single thing that happens has got to count 110 per cent.
‘And it was very important to get these vocals to just sit absolutely right. When you’re singing in a band that’s got Angus playing guitar, you’ve got to make your vocals as exciting as his guitar playing, and that’s a real mountain to climb for anybody! So it was as much a matter of Mutt being very exacting about virtually every syllable that got sung — and making sure it was exactly the way it should be — and at the same time making sure that it was exactly the way that Malcolm had it in his head.
‘By the same token, from Jonna’s [Brian’s] point of view, every single note of that is right at the edge of anybody’s range. And it isn’t just that it’s sung up high, it’s sung up high with all of that power and excitement at the same time. And I think that’s what set it apart — every line is just absolutely there!
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