Wednesday 17 December 2008, 11:35 | By CMU Editorial

Dutch singer loses Nazi libel case

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Dutch entertainer Johannes Heesters has lost a libel lawsuit addressing claims by German author Volker Kuehn that the singer performed for Nazi guards at the Dachau concentration camp during the course of the second world war.

Heesters admits that he visited Dachau, and even that he performed for Adolf Hitler, but was seeking a retraction of the claim that he had performed at the aforementioned camp.

The judge in the case, Michael Mauck, ruled in court in Berlin yesterday that there were “certain indications of a performance” but that sixty years later it was “no longer possible to clarify whether a performance took place”. He added, however, that Volker Kuehn had the right to make the claims.

Heesters, now 105, began his career in Amsterdam, but moved to Germany in the mid thirties, and enjoyed much success. He was never accused of being a Nazi propagandist, and continued to perform after the war, although he was booed off-stage at a comeback gig in Amsterdam in the sixties.

He has continued to perform in Germany and Austria, and now lives in Munich. He’s believed to be the world’s oldest performing singer and actor.

Elton John loses libel suit over spoof Guardian diary piece

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The Guardian has successfully defended itself in a libel lawsuit launched by Elton John who took offence at a spoof dairy piece featured in the paper’s Weekend magazine.

The spoof article, presented as a diary entry from John (but pretty obviously a spoof), included an extract that implied the singer’s famous annual charitable White Tie & Tiara Ball was more about partying than fundraising.

As if written by Elton, the piece called the event “preposterously lavish” and read: “Once we’ve subtracted all these costs, the leftovers go to my foundation. I call this care-o-nomics”.

John said he accepted the piece was “an attempt at humour”, but said it gave the reader the impression that he “hosts the White Tie & Tiara Ball knowing that once the costs of the ball have been covered only the small proportion of the money raised which is left over is available for Elton John Aids Foundation to distribute to good causes”. This, John points out, is untrue – over its history the event has raised £38m for charity.

But Mr Justice Tugendhat did not agree there was a case for libel because, he ruled, it was obvious the piece wasn’t really written by John, and that it was a joke article. He told the court “no reasonable reader could understand [the piece] as being written by the claimant”.

If the paper were really making claims regarding the motives for the Ball, the judge ruled, “a reasonable reader would expect so serious an allegation to be made without humour, and explicitly, in a part of the newspaper devoted to news”.

Lil Wayne’s lawyer asks for more time in sample lawsuit

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Lawyers for Lil Wayne have asked for more time before turning over documents relating to a lawsuit which accuses the rapper and his record label Cash Money of knowingly sampling a song by Karma-Ann Swanepoel without permission.

Wayne sampled her song ‘Once’ in his 2007 track ‘I Feel Like Dying’. Publishers of ‘Once’ say the label approached them about clearing the sample but had failed to reach an agreement before making the Wayne track available on the net.

Lawyers for the publishers had demanded access to certain documents from Cash Money relating to the sample and the deadline for handing over said documents was this Friday. But the label’s lawyers asked the court for more time yesterday.

I’m not sure what their excuse was for the later delivery of the documents, nor whether the judge gave them a deadline extension. I’ll try and find out.

Two Hallelujahs set to top Christmas chart

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So, Leonard Cohen could be the first songwriter ever to have two versions of one of his songs in the top two positions in the UK singles chart at the same time this weekend, albeit neither of them his version.

‘X Factor’ winner Alexandra Burke’s version of Cohen’s song ‘Hallelujah’ is already number one in the early-week chart based on massive download sales of the track. The physical CD is out today and Burke is almost assured the Christmas number one spot this weekend. No surprise there then.

But, thanks to that online campaign encouraging people to buy Jeff Buckley’s famously haunting version of the song instead of the new ‘X-Factor’ version, that version is currently sitting at number 3 in the midweeks, and could move up to position two, especially given all the media reports on the ‘battle of the Hallelujahs’, like this one.

While Buckley’s version is unlikely to outsell Burke’s, further download sales of it could mean it reaches number 2 by the weekend, which would give Cohen a songwriting first in the UK charts. It would also be great news for Sony, who own both recordings. Cohen’s own version of the song is currently at 34 in the early week charts.

There are, of course, a plethora of other versions of this song – more than 170 according to some reports. The John Cale version remains my favourite. You can hear some others in this little ‘Hallelujah’ quiz prepared by the BBC, which is rather fun if you’re looking for some pre-Christmas work avoidance.

Slash deserves no credit for Sweet Child

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Former Guns N Roses guitarist Slash says he deserves no credit for the success of one of the band’s biggest hits, ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, even though it’s his opening riff that people remember most from the sing.

He told Rolling Stone: “There was not a lot of forethought to ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, that riff. It was just something I was messing around, and stumbled across this interesting pattern. I’ve got to give credit to Axl Rose and the other guys in the band for really turning it into a song”.

Ronson prepares for a busy 2009

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He’s not exactly been short of work in 2008, but Mark Ronson’s 2009 is shaping up to be exceptionally busy, with new albums with Elton John, Amy Winehouse and Daniel Merriweather, The Rumble Strips, US rapper Wale, as well as a follow-up to his own ‘Versions’ album in the pipeline. Though not all of those projects are for certain just yet.

Ronson told BBC Newsbeat: “Elton John is just somebody that I’m a huge fan of. It’s just insane how many of his songs are in the pop canon. I was really flattered that he asked to work together so hopefully we will be able to work together. But I hate to talk about anything that premature ’cause, you know, it’s not definite”.

Speaking about the new Amy Winehouse album, he said: “I’m not sure where it is [at]. I haven’t spoken to Amy in a few weeks, and I haven’t heard anything [saying] that she’s making a record or not. I’m sure she’s writing songs. I think hopefully when she has ten songs or she’s ready to make a record she’ll call me and we’ll go and start how we did last time”.

On the subject of his own album, he said: “I’m supposed to start my next record sometime next year. But, you know, I have to just see when inspiration comes. Really my day job is being a producer so I would like to produce a couple more records and work with a few more inspiring people probably, before I’m ready to do my next thing”.

Rolo Tomassi launch singles club

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So, what will CMU favourites Rolo Tomassi be doing in 2009, I hear you ask. Well, of course, they’ll be heading out on the Shred Yr Face 2 tour with The Bronx and Fucked Up. And they’ll also be launching a singles club, which is nice.

The Rolo Tomassi Subs Club will see the band release four 7″ singles, one every three months, through Hassle Records, each featuring an exclusive track. B-sides will comes as a mixture of remixes, covers and splits with other bands.

To subscribe, like I just have, to receive the singles, go here.

Weezer Christmas collection available online

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That previously reported six track collection of Christmas songs, recorded by Weezer for release via the iPhone, is so go on general digital sale because of high demand.

‘Tap Tap Revenge Christmas With Weezer’ features ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’, ‘Silent Night’, ‘O Holy Night’, ‘First Noel’, ‘Hark The Herald Angels Sing’ and ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’, as well as two bonus tracks.

The Boy Least Likely To Christmas release

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The Boy Least Likely To’s previously reported Christmas single ‘The First Snowflake’ is out via download this week and if you’d like to see the video, it’s here.

Here’s something the band say about it: “Our new album will be released in March next year, but for now [there’s] ‘The First Snowflake’, a little pop song about feeling lost and alone at Christmas. I hope it makes you happy in the way that all the best sad songs should, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as we did recording it for you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With love from, The Boy Least Likely To”.

Beyonce confirms O2 dates

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Beyonce has confirmed that she’ll play two shows at London’s O2 Arena in May next year. It’s all part of her promotional tour of Europe for latest album ‘I Am… Sasha Fierce’, released last month.

The UK/Ireland dates are as follows:

23 May: Birmingham NIA
25+26 May: London O2 Arena
27 May: Manchester MEN
29 May: Dublin O2 Arena
31 May: Belfast Odyssey Arena

New Orleans jazz fest celebrates 40 years

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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary next year with performances from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Joe Cocker, Ben Harper, Tony Bennett, and Earth, Wind & Fire, organisers announced yesterday.

The event, which has had a significant impact on the city’s economy in the last couple of years since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, will take place over the course of two weekends, 24 – 26 April and 30 Apr – 3 May.

Addressing reporters at a press conference, fest founder George Wein joked that the crowd he was talking to was bigger than that which attended the first event, at which performances from Duke Ellington and Mahlia Jackson were witnessed by no more than 300 people.

These days, somewhere in the region of 400,000 people are expected to attend. Producer Quint Davis said: “We’ve got a great party. We want the world to come”.

Guitar Hero et al have peaked, but still have longevity

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‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ and all those other cheap imitations have been something of a success story in the last 18 months, of course, and the record companies have been busy, possibly a little late in the day, seeing how they can turn the public’s passion for pretending to play music into a revenue stream by making music available to download for the game.

Which is all lovely, but we can’t be having too much good news can we? So, thank God for reports that stats from research firm NPD Group show interest in the music game franchises has peaked, and that sales of the actual games is in decline.

NPD’s report on November sales is yet to be published, but according to Wired one of the company’s analysts has said there has been a 50% series-by-series decline in the last twelve months, which suggests falling demand in addition to any other economic factors.

NPD analyst Jesse Divnich told reporters: “Currently, we expect unit sales to decline by more than 50 percent series-over-series for November. This is coming off the October month where series-over-series units declined by more than 60 percent”.

That said, while interest may not be quite what it was earlier in the year, Divnich isn’t predicting the end of music-based gaming just yet, saying the market will be profitable for at least a decade, and therefore it is certainly still worth the record companies trying to get a piece of the action.

Divnich: “We expect ‘Guitar Hero’ and ‘Rock Band’ releases for the next 10 years as they will always have a large and loyal market base, just as [late nineties dance game ‘Dance Dance Revolution’] is still today a very profitable franchise for Konami, even though that series reached its peak a long time ago”.

EMI may close Barnes studios

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EMI is reportedly considering closing down one of its London recording studios, the Olympic Studios in Barnes, which over the years have been used by artists like The Rolling Stones, Oasis, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix.

The Evening Standard reports that staff at the studio complex have been warned closure is a possibility, with one source telling the paper: “The fact is the studios are not profitable, like many British studios. You can’t get as much business as you used to in the past. And there’s no sign of that situation improving”.

Equity Music closes

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Nashville-based independent country label Equity Music, founded and run by country star Clint Black in 2003, is ceasing its operations.

The label’s president, Tim Wipperman, told reporters yesterday: “Our investors tried to find a way to keep the doors open at Equity, but with a struggling industry, an overall decline in discretionary spending by consumers and a freeze on credit markets, the board of directors have been forced to make this difficult decision. We want to wish our wonderful staff and artists all the best in all their future endeavors”.

Equity was an early 360 degree label in that it said it would allow artists to retain ownership of their recordings and earn from them from day one, in return for securing a cut of an artist’s other revenue streams, such as live, publishing and merchandise.

The success of the label, and investor confidence in it, was effected when one of their biggest artists, platinum selling Little Big Town, defected for a more traditional record deal with EMI’s Capitol Nashville.

Smernicki becomes Polydor’s chief digital man

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Universal have announced the promotion of Paul Smernicki to the job of Director Of Digital and D2C (that’s ‘direct to consumer’, in case you wondered) for its Polydor division.

Confirming the appointment, Polydor’s GM of Marketing Karen Simmonds told reporters: “Paul’s progression from press officer, to one third of the original Fiction triumvirate, to head of digital and now director is testimony to his dedication and energetic approach to all things Polydor”.

Smernicki is one of a number of new appointments at the Universal division. John Leahy, previously GM for Domino Records, will join the major as Marketing Director for Polydor Associated Labels, while existing Polydor staffers Liz Goodwin, Kelly Ridgway and Sam Seager have become Marketing Manager, Product Manager and Marketing Co-ordinator respectively.

Rubin may be side lined at Sony

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According to the Fox website in the US, executive shenanigans at the Sony bit of SonyBMG will result in producer extraordinaire Rick Rubin being pushed out of his exec role at the Columbia label, though he is likely to be given his own imprint to compensate.

Word has it some Sony execs are a little annoyed that in his producer guise Rubin has been working on big albums for other majors.

Following the recent departure of the President of Sony’s Epic US division, Charlie Walk, Rubin’s side-lining will further increase the control Rob Stringer and Steve Barnett have over the Sony US operation.

GEMA considering joining ice partnership

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German publishing collecting society GEMA has said it is looking into joining MCPS-PRS and Swedish collecting society STIM’s ICE alliance.

ICE is a shared admin centre utilised by both the UK and Swedish royalty bodies. GEMA say they have been monitoring how ICE works and the benefits it delivers to MCPS-PRS and STIM for the last six months.

Its CEO, Harald Heker, has told Music Week: “We believe that a potential participation in ICE, alongside the Alliance and STIM, could provide an important strategic alliance to enable a leap forward in business quality, efficiency and effectiveness”.

ICMP announce scholarship programme

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London’s Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance has announced thirty grand’s worth of scholarships to enable aspiring musicians to study its one year Institute Higher Diploma course from October 2009.

A number of media partners have also got involved to promote the course and the scholarship programme to young musicians. Applications for the scholarship programme need to be in by 6 Mar – more info at www.icmp.co.uk.

Chuck’s Tupac story named error of the year

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That Tupac story by Pulitzer Prize-winning former LA Times journalist Chuck Philips has been named Error Of The Year by Regret The Error, a website that reports on mistakes in the media.

As previously reported, the respected journalist wrote a sensationalist story that claimed to reveal new evidence regarding the involvement of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and others in the unsolved murder of Tupac Shakur, claims which were based in part on what were proven to be forged FBI documents.

The LA Times issued a formal apology and retraction in relation to the story in late March and Philips subsequently left the paper.

The View invite fan back stage after breaking his nose

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The View frontman Kyle Falconer reportedly invited a fan backstage after he somehow managed to break said fan’s nose during a stage dive. Falconer injured the fan after jumping onto his audience at a gig at Glasgow’s Barrowland.

According to the Daily Record, the band’s sound engineer explained: “We found out Kyle broke a guy’s nose on his crash landing into the pit. He obviously felt bad and they invited him backstage for a pint or two by way of apology. There’s not really much to say beyond that except there was no malice involved and the band were very eager to make up for the accident”.

Fall Out Boy play a capella

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Fall Out Boy set out to film an impromptu gig at Washington Square Park in New York on Monday, but were unable to play their instruments because the paperwork allowing them to do it hadn’t been properly filled out, or processed, or something. Anyway, the result was that the band played a capella for the session.

Noel Gallagher plans to love Chinese Democracy

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Noel Gallagher has said that he expects that he’ll love the finally released Guns N Roses album ‘Chinese Democracy’ once he gets around to listening to it.

The Oasis man is quoted as saying: “I’ve read the reviews, and judging from the reviews I know I’m gonna fucking love it. I love preposterous records, and anything that took 17 years is obviously fucking ludicrous. I’m dying to hear it. I already know I’m going to like it”.

Given he’s dying to hear the album, you’d have thought Noel would have got a copy by now.

Robbie reportedly considering post-EMI deals

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There are reports that Robbie Williams is already sounding out other labels regarding a new record deal once his current commitments to EMI run out – which will reportedly be after just one more album.

Some are reporting Live Nation might snap Williams up to a multi-million pound 360 degree deal like the one they did with Madonna and Jay-Z, though that seems unlikely given the live music conglom has previously said it was only looking to do four such mega-deals for the time being, all four of which have been done.

A source nevertheless told the Sun: “He went into rehab and has spent time getting his head together. Word is getting out that his new album is sounding brilliant and the Take That reunion coverage has helped. Live Nation would be very keen. They have recently signed Madonna and U2 on massive deals. They could give Robbie a huge contract which would include his releases, live dates and all the extras that accompany that”.

The cynic in me would say someone is trying to reinvent the Robbie story in the tabloids – the tabs (the Mirror in particular) having pretty much written off Williams as a solo artist since the lukewarm reception to last album ‘Rudebox’ and the corresponding rebirth of his former band Take That (despite ‘Rudebox’ still being one of the biggest selling albums by a British artist this decade).

Lily talks Womanizer

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Lily Allen has revealed that she’s in trouble with her record label after Mark Ronson played her cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Womanizer’ on his weekly radio show. Writing on her MySpace blog, Allen said: “Now, some of you may be wondering why I covered ‘Womanizer'”.

“Simple really; I love Britney and I love the song. It wasn’t my intention for it to have whizzed round the world like it has. Mark Ronson asked me for something no one had heard to play on his radio show and ‘Womanizer’ was the only song I had as an attachment on my Blackberry and I couldn’t get home to send him anything else in time”.

“I had asked him to talk all over it so it wouldn’t get ripped, but he didn’t – thanks Mark for getting me in serious trouble with my record company”.

Madonna will give Ritchie cash in divorce settlement

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I’m confused because I thought we were told no money would change hands as part of the Madonna/Guy Ritchie divorce settlement.

We must have been told that because we asked a question to that effect in the most recent CMU Pop Quiz at last week’s CMU Social. And people were saying Ritchie had done a “Billie Piper” in refusing to take any money off his ex-wife.

The legal wrangling that took place prior to the divorce being granted, we were told, was all about the custody of the couple’s children.

But whatever, Madonna’s US spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg has now told reporters Ritchie will receive approximately £50 million from the singer as part of the couple’s divorce settlement, though that does include the value of their Devon home.

Rosenberg confirmed the financial settlement to both the BBC and the Associated Press, seemingly responding to reports elsewhere in the media yesterday to the effect that Ritchie would receive $60-$70 from his ex (which is, actually, a bit less than £50 million).

Rosenberg reportedly admitted that the £50 million was probably “one of the largest payouts ever in a divorce”.

Chinese Democracy leaker formally pleads guilty

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The blogger who leaked tracks from Guns N Roses album ‘Chinese Democracy’ months before its release formally pleaded guilty to the criminal copyright charges against him yesterday.

As previously reported, Kevin Cogill, who had previously pleaded not-guilty to the infringement charges despite admitting uploading tracks from the album, changed his plea last month. He formally pleaded guilty in an LA court yesterday.

It’s thought prosecutors will recommend probation rather than a custodial sentence in relation to the violation in return for Cogill pleading guilty.

Axl Rose blames file-sharers for disappointing record sales

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Talking of illegal Guns N Roses downloads, Axl Rose, who has got rather chatty in the last week after keeping a low profile around the release of long awaited new album ‘Chinese Democracy’, has blamed the long player’s relatively disappointing sales figures on illegal downloading.

Of course, Axl is only having to come to terms with the digital revolution now, his last album having been released long before Napster and all that followed.

Writing, almost in English, on the forum at chinesedemocracy.com, Rose says pesky illegal downloading was “basically devastating across the board. And when u have such a majority openly justifying their actions and throwing out nonsense such as it’s not actually stealing as the original is still with whomever it’s unbelievably insane”.

“It [file sharing culture] exists because of the greed of the record industry, the greed of large scale pirating, the ease and common nature now of the act itself and personal motivations such as popularity among certain groups, possible momentary media recognition etc”.

“And it’s too rampant and widespread. It’s simply too huge a mess for the courts to deal with and in that with those #’s and the expense and manpower involved necessary at this time to curtail it… obviously there are more serious crimes for society to focus on”.

As previously reported, some industry insiders blamed GnR’s poor record sales not on the downloading phenomenon but on Axl’s unwillingness to do any promotion around the long, long awaited album release – the star having gone all but AWOL when the record arrived in the shops.

That said, perhaps it’s just as well Axl wasn’t too active on the promotion trail. Prior to blogging on the Chinese Democracy website, Rose went online to answer fans’ questions via gnrevolution.com.

When one fan questioned whether it was really Axl on the other end of the ether connection, the singer responded: “You’re a little cunt and since you’ve been posting you’ve pretty much always been a little cunt. Blind accusations and insults by an anonymous coward and whiny shit stirrer aren’t impressive or needed by anyone. Everyone else…talk with your administrator. Who wants to chat?!!” Great PR man that Axl Rose.

Obama can change hip hop, says Common

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As if expectations of Barack Obama weren’t already unrealistically high, now rapper Common has said that he thinks the new US Prez is the man who can convince rappers to choose more positive subject matters for their tracks.

Common told CNN: “I really do believe we as hip-hop artists pick up what’s going on in the world. I think hip hop artists will have no choice but to talk about different things and more positive things”.

“Try to bring a brighter side to that because, even before Barack, I think people had been tired of hearing the same thing”.

Ill-advised reformation no. 4982: The Stone Roses

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Okay, maybe I’ve been a bit wishy washy on this before. Let me just put it in the plainest terms I can manage: No band should ever reform, ever.

Oh yeah, I know that once in a while you get a good one, but for every band that improves and expands on past work, there are 50 who just destroy everything they ever did and ruin it for everyone. So, with that in mind, Ian Brown, please dig your heels in hard.

Yes, this outburst comes in the wake of news that Ian Brown is the only thing standing in the way of a Stone Roses reunion. Though that’s a pretty big hurdle if you think about it.

But bassist Mani told Channelbee he’s definitely up for it, saying: “Next year is the 20th anniversary of the first album – it’s an ideal time to do it. It’s something I would love to do before we are all fat and bald”.

He also urged fans to “start the campaign”. Don’t. Just… don’t.

Ill-advised reformation no. 2487: The Sex Pistols

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The Sex Pistols have hinted that they might record a new album. Urgh.

Glen Matlock told The Quietus: “We’ve done our bit this year, we’ll meet again in the new year and see what we want to do. We were not recording a new album – I think that journalists are making it up, but you can never say never”.

“We all got ideas between us. It’s a double-edged sword [though] – if you do it not as good as the original [people will be critical], but if you don’t do it people want to know why. [But] it’s up to us. We are the masters of our own destiny”.

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