Please help me identify a song
Michael Carmody
That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
Major Tom (Coming Home)
by, Peter Schilling
========================
Standing there alone
the ship is waiting
all systems are go
are you sure?
control is not convinced
but the computer
has the evidence
"no need to abort"
the countdown starts
watching in a trance
the crew is certain
nothing left to chance
all is working
trying to relaxup in the capsule
"send me up a drink"
jokes Major Tom
the count goes on
4 3 2 1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling calling home...
second stage is cut
we're now in orbit
stabilizers uprunnning perfect
starting to collect
requested data
what will it effect
when all is done
thinks Major Tom
back at ground control
there is a problem
go to rockets full
not responding
"hello Major Tom
are you receiving
turn the thrusters on
we're standing by"
there's no reply
4 3 2 1
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
calling calling home...
across the stratosphere
a final message
"give my wife my love"
then nothing more
far beneath the ship
the world is mourning
they don't realize
he's alive
no one understands
but Major Tom sees
now the life commands
this is my home
I'm coming home
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming home...
Earth below us
drifting falling
floating weightless
coming coming
home...
home.....
HumanGoing wrote:
>
> Can someone help me identify a song?
> The chorus goes "4, 3, 2, 1, earth below us, drifting falling, floating
> weightless, calling, calling, home"
>
> I heard it was by "Major Tom" and that its called "The Countdown's On." Can
> someone tell me if this is true or not?
>
> Please E-mail me with a response, I need to know the name of this song.
> Thanks,
>
> Ron L.
>
> The Name Of This Sig. Is Talking Heads.
>
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> while, you could miss it."
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>
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>
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HumanGoing
Skurj
Michael Carmody wrote in message <352083...@feist.com>...
>That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
>
>Major Tom (Coming Home)
>by, Peter Schilling
Yes correct but I believe it was originally done by David Bowie in his
"androgenous years".
Sods1
>Major Tom (Coming Home)
>by, Peter Schilling
By the way, that song is on the new VH1 CD (I think it's called "More Big
80s").
Mort Shuman
Skurj wrote in message <6frn86$gp4$1...@usenet47.supernews.com>...
>
>Michael Carmody wrote in message <352083...@feist.com>...
>>That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
>>
>>Major Tom (Coming Home)
>>by, Peter Schilling
>
>
>
>Yes correct but I believe it was originally done by David Bowie in his
>"androgenous years".
Bowie's song is called "Space Oddity", and while he says "Major Tom" in the
song, they are NOT the same song... Both are good, albeit different, songs,
though.
Mort
imav...@hotmail.com
Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the original, and
it was called something else...Space Oddity??? I don't know, but it wasn't
called Major Tom, though it chronicled the life of Major Tom, and the death
of. Peter Schilling came along a few years later and retold the story...this
time however, Major Tom didn't die; he "went home", and assumed his life as
an alien.
=Carrie=
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Stacy
Skurj wrote:
>
> Michael Carmody wrote in message <352083...@feist.com>...
> >That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
> >
> >Major Tom (Coming Home)
> >by, Peter Schilling
>
> Yes correct but I believe it was originally done by David Bowie in his
> "androgenous years".
Different song.
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Nigel Tufnel
Geoff Voigt wrote in message <6fsero$7at$1...@ash.ridgecrest.ca.us>...
>In article <6fs7tp$r7v$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, imav...@hotmail.com wrote:
>>Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the original,
and
>>it was called something else...Space Oddity??? I don't know, but it wasn't
>>called Major Tom, though it chronicled the life of Major Tom, and the
death
>>of. Peter Schilling came along a few years later and retold the
story...this
>>time however, Major Tom didn't die; he "went home", and assumed his life
as
>>an alien.
>
>Dear Sir/Madam:
>What in the heck have you been smoking? Neither Major Tom song deals with
the
>fine Maj. being an alien! Both songs are about the astronaut Major Tom
going
>up into space, realizing that he prefers it up there, and just staying up
>there in orbit. _That_ is what the "Coming Home" sequence of the Schilling
>song is about, and the final words of Bowie's version are similar: "Tell my
>wife I love her, and I'm leaving the capsule" I doubt those are the real
>ending words to "Space Oddity", but I'm sure a Bowie fan can correct me on
>that. No malice intended in correcting you, just setting the record
straight.
>
>Geoff "Send me up a drink" Voigt
>
(Bowie Version)
Major Tom's space capsule suffers a terminal glitch. Major Tom knows he's
going to die, hence the "Tell my wife I love her very much"
Well, that's just nitpicking, innit?
--------->Nigel Tufnel<-----------------
David G. Rubens
"Mort Shuman" <mddu...@NOSPAM.earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>Skurj wrote in message <6frn86$gp4$1...@usenet47.supernews.com>...
>>
>>Michael Carmody wrote in message <352083...@feist.com>...
>>>That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
>>>
>>>Major Tom (Coming Home)
>>>by, Peter Schilling
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes correct but I believe it was originally done by David Bowie in his
>>"androgenous years".
>
>
>Bowie's song is called "Space Oddity", and while he says "Major Tom" in the
>song, they are NOT the same song... Both are good, albeit different, songs,
>though.
>
>Mort
>
>
Different songs, but based on the same (fictional) theme...Major Tom blasts off
into space, has problems, gets lost/dies... Some of the lines are the same (or
very close).
DGR
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Geoff Voigt
In article <6fs7tp$r7v$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, imav...@hotmail.com wrote:
>Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the original, and
>it was called something else...Space Oddity??? I don't know, but it wasn't
>called Major Tom, though it chronicled the life of Major Tom, and the death
>of. Peter Schilling came along a few years later and retold the story...this
>time however, Major Tom didn't die; he "went home", and assumed his life as
>an alien.
Dear Sir/Madam:
What in the heck have you been smoking? Neither Major Tom song deals with the
fine Maj. being an alien! Both songs are about the astronaut Major Tom going
up into space, realizing that he prefers it up there, and just staying up
there in orbit. _That_ is what the "Coming Home" sequence of the Schilling
song is about, and the final words of Bowie's version are similar: "Tell my
wife I love her, and I'm leaving the capsule" I doubt those are the real
ending words to "Space Oddity", but I'm sure a Bowie fan can correct me on
that. No malice intended in correcting you, just setting the record straight.
Geoff "Send me up a drink" Voigt
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Nerys
>>>Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the original,
>and
>>>it was called something else...Space Oddity
No, the two songs are totally unrelated to each other. Bowie did
"Space Oddity" way before Schilling did "Major Tom" in the earlyl 80s.
In Bowie's version, he decided to stay in space.
>Major Tom's space capsule suffers a terminal glitch. Major Tom knows he's
>going to die,
Correct, Nigel.
>hence the "Tell my wife I love her very much"
Although both songs did include references to giving their wives their
love.
Nerys
Rich Pfeifer
Ok, here's my question:
Was there a story or something that both songs were based on? How did we
get two (very different) songs by two people on the same storyline? (Yes,
I acknowledge the subtleties between the two songs.. but they are
basically the same story)
Anyway, my question is.. what was the inspiration for each "Major Tom"?
Did Peter Schilling just steal Bowie's idea? Or is there something bigger
that I'm missing?
Thanks,
Terry
mll...@dewlap.com
In article <6frn86$gp4$1...@usenet47.supernews.com>,
"Skurj" <ban...@ida.net> wrote:
>
>
> Michael Carmody wrote in message <352083...@feist.com>...
> >That was Peter Schilling. I had the 45. Here you go:
> >
> >Major Tom (Coming Home)
> >by, Peter Schilling
>
> Yes correct but I believe it was originally done by David Bowie in his
> "androgenous years".
>
>
*BZZZZ* You are incorrect. David Bowie's song is called "Space Oddity", which
came out in 1969. It was a slow almost-ballad with rocket take-off noises
(made by Bowie in a really early demo version). Peter Schilling then came
along in the mid-eighties and recorded "Major Tom", which was heavy on the
synth and featured the lyric "four three two one, earth below us...".
There is also a German version of "Major Tom" available on Schilling's
album "Error in the System", which I have been unable to get ahold of since my
cassette broke ten years ago.
marianne
Penny Dreadful
In article <6fsk46$glh$1...@usenet56.supernews.com>, "Nigel Tufnel"
<T...@smear.con> wrote:
> >What in the heck have you been smoking? Neither Major Tom song deals with
> the
> >fine Maj. being an alien! Both songs are about the astronaut Major Tom
> going
> >up into space, realizing that he prefers it up there, and just staying up
> >there in orbit. _That_ is what the "Coming Home" sequence of the Schilling
> >song is about, and the final words of Bowie's version are similar: "Tell my
> >wife I love her, and I'm leaving the capsule" I doubt those are the real
> >ending words to "Space Oddity", but I'm sure a Bowie fan can correct me on
> >that. No malice intended in correcting you, just setting the record
> straight.
> >
> >Geoff "Send me up a drink" Voigt
> >
> (Bowie Version)
> Major Tom's space capsule suffers a terminal glitch. Major Tom knows he's
> going to die, hence the "Tell my wife I love her very much"
>
> Well, that's just nitpicking, innit?
I didn't get either of these from Bowie's "Space Oddity." What I
understood was that Major Tom did a "spacewalk" but untethered himself
from the ship and just floated away.
The most interesting part of the "Space Oddity"/"Major Tom" thing, IMO, is
the "controversy" that surrounded the release of the Schilling song. He
vehemently denied ever having heard the Bowie song, despite the fact that
he had basically re-written its lyrics and put it to new music.
This was tantamount to the whole Vanilla Ice: "Ice Ice Baby is not the
same as Under Pressure" fiasco.
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In article <3521fa58...@news.mci2000.com>, NOSPA...@mci2000.com
(Nerys) wrote:
> >>>Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the original,
> >and
> >>>it was called something else...Space Oddity
>
> No, the two songs are totally unrelated to each other. Bowie did
> "Space Oddity" way before Schilling did "Major Tom" in the earlyl 80s.
>
No. They *are* related in the sense that Schilling ripped off the "story"
of his song wholesale from Bowie's "Space Oddity."
> In Bowie's version, he decided to stay in space.
>
> >Major Tom's space capsule suffers a terminal glitch. Major Tom knows he's
> >going to die,
>
> Correct, Nigel.
>
Wrong, Nigel and Nerys. I think the glitch is perceived (as it is in the
Bowie song) by Ground Control. However, the "glitch" is caused by Major
Tom's decision to leave the ship and stay up in space. I think you're
letting the video colour your perception of the song's content.
love love love--
Penny Dreadful
"Pshaw! All those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!"
imav...@hotmail.com
>
> This was tantamount to the whole Vanilla Ice: "Ice Ice Baby is not the
> same as Under Pressure" fiasco.
>
Hahahahhaha I remember seeing Vanilla Ice on MTV, and he's like, "Man, it's
not the same because yo, there's another note in it."
The Queen version: "dum dum dum dumdumdumdum, dum dum dum dumdumdumdum..."
V. ICe: "Dum dum dum dumdumdumdum, DUM dum dum dum dumdumdumdum"
Jeez what a freak. :oD
mll...@dewlap.com
In article <6fsero$7at$1...@ash.ridgecrest.ca.us>,
gvo...@ridgenet.net (Geoff Voigt) wrote:
David Bowie did the original, and
> >it was called something else...Space Oddity??? I don't know, but it
wasn't
> >called Major Tom, though it chronicled the life of Major Tom, and the death
> >of. Peter Schilling came along a few years later and retold the
story...this
> >time however, Major Tom didn't die; he "went home", and assumed his life as
> >an alien.
>
> Dear Sir/Madam:
> What in the heck have you been smoking? Neither Major Tom song deals with
the
> fine Maj. being an alien! Both songs are about the astronaut Major Tom going
> up into space, realizing that he prefers it up there, and just staying up
> there in orbit. _That_ is what the "Coming Home" sequence of the Schilling
> song is about, and the final words of Bowie's version are similar: "Tell my
> wife I love her, and I'm leaving the capsule" I doubt those are the real
> ending words to "Space Oddity", but I'm sure a Bowie fan can correct me on
> that. No malice intended in correcting you, just setting the record
straight.
>
> Geoff "Send me up a drink" Voigt
The lyric you're thinking of is
"Tell my wife I love her very much
She knows
Ground Control to Major Tom your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you hear me Major Tom
Can you....here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do..."
Yadda yadda.
Okay, as a Bowie fan, I can correct some things. Major Tom (in both songs)
wound up floating around in space never to return. Actually, as a point of
interest, "Space Oddity" (the first Major Tom song) was banned on some radio
stations during the Apollo 13 debacle because it probably freaked the hell out
of some people at the time. At least this is what I've read in a couple of
Bowie bios (yea I'm a raving fan).
I think the person claiming Major Tom came back to Earth to live as an alien
is quite possibly misconstruing the lyrics to YET another Major Tom song:
"Ashes to Ashes". I never really tried to interpret this song, but it sounds
like Bowie is preaching on the evils of <insert your drug of choice>. At
least it sounds like a bad trip, of some sort.
Better not mess with Major Tom.
marianne
mll...@dewlap.com
In article <pfeifer-0104...@bridgeport-usr1-41.nai.net>,
That depends on who you talk to. Some people think Schilling stole the idea
and made it his own. However, I really think he wrote the song as a tribute
to Bowie and "Space Oddity". If you want a ripoff, try listening to the
lyrics of "Rocketman" by Elton John (which was written some years after Space
Oddity). The story and some of the lyrics are very similar. Considering
Elton and Bowie are supposed to be bitter rivals, my guess is Elton blatantly
ripped Bowie off on this one.
Captain Howdy
>Penny Dreadful wrote:
> The most interesting part of the "Space Oddity"/"Major Tom" thing, IMO, is
> the "controversy" that surrounded the release of the Schilling song. He
> vehemently denied ever having heard the Bowie song, despite the fact that
> he had basically re-written its lyrics and put it to new music.
> love love love--
> Penny Dreadful
> loving the existence of this ng!
Hahahaha.....if he says he did not rip of Bowie he is FULL OF SHIT.
First, Space Oddity is a classic that anyone with even a passing
interest in Rock music would have heard. Himself, being some sort of
musician, surely would have known this song. Second, although I have
never heard of this Shilling guy before today, I looked up the lyrics
(because I have LOTS of free time at work) and the similarities (ie. the
countdown, the "tell my wife" part and the whole theme) are simply too
similar.
Anyone else who has never heard of this song before take a reading and
have a laugh, both are posted below thanx to www.lyrics.ch
CH
Schilling Peter
Different Story
Major Tom (Coming Home)
home..... <to fade>
Bowie David
Changes Bowie
Space Oddity
-------------------
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
Ten
Ground Control to Major Tom Nine,Eight,Seven
Commencing countdown, engines on Six,Five Four
Check igition and may God's love be with you Three,Two,One
Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom,
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know who shot you where <---------is this
line correct?!?! CH
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control"
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today.
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world,
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles,
I'm feeling very still,
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows."
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuits dead, there's something wrong.
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
"Here I am floating round my tin can,
Far above the Moon,
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
Stacy
VH-1 showed the 'Superfreak' video by Rick James, and my son was quite
sure that "that old guy ripped off MC Hammer"!
imav...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > This was tantamount to the whole Vanilla Ice: "Ice Ice Baby is not the
> > same as Under Pressure" fiasco.
> >
>
> Hahahahhaha I remember seeing Vanilla Ice on MTV, and he's like, "Man, it's
> not the same because yo, there's another note in it."
>
> The Queen version: "dum dum dum dumdumdumdum, dum dum dum dumdumdumdum..."
>
> V. ICe: "Dum dum dum dumdumdumdum, DUM dum dum dum dumdumdumdum"
>
> Jeez what a freak. :oD
>
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Rich Pfeifer
> This is Ground Control to Major Tom,
> You've really made the grade
> And the papers want to know who shot you where <---------is this
> line correct?!?! CH
> Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.
"And the papers what to know who's shirts you wear."
Or, at least, that's what *I* always heard when I sang out loud (badly off
key) to the song
Terry
Nigel Tufnel
Penny Dreadful wrote in message ...
>In article <3521fa58...@news.mci2000.com>, NOSPA...@mci2000.com
>(Nerys) wrote:
>
>> >>>Okay, here's the "thing" w/ "Major Tom". David Bowie did the
original,
>> >and
>> >>>it was called something else...Space Oddity
>>
>> No, the two songs are totally unrelated to each other. Bowie did
>> "Space Oddity" way before Schilling did "Major Tom" in the earlyl 80s.
>>
>
>No. They *are* related in the sense that Schilling ripped off the "story"
>of his song wholesale from Bowie's "Space Oddity."
>
>> In Bowie's version, he decided to stay in space.
>>
>> >Major Tom's space capsule suffers a terminal glitch. Major Tom knows
he's
>> >going to die,
>>
>> Correct, Nigel.
>>
>
>Wrong, Nigel and Nerys. I think the glitch is perceived (as it is in the
>Bowie song) by Ground Control. However, the "glitch" is caused by Major
>Tom's decision to leave the ship and stay up in space. I think you're
>letting the video colour your perception of the song's content.
>
>love love love--
>Penny Dreadful
>
There was a video? Never saw it. Anyway, if Bowie made a video for the
song, wouldn't it represent the correct interpretation of *his own work*?
Well, that's just nitpicking, innit?
--------->Nigel Tufnel<-----------------
Nigel Tufnel
Rich Pfeifer wrote in message ...
I concur, it is "whose shirts you wear"
Nerys
On Wed, 01 Apr 1998 23:10:07 -0500, pfe...@ct2.nai.net (Rich Pfeifer)
wrote:
>In article <352303...@nospam.com>, Captain Howdy <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> This is Ground Control to Major Tom,
>> You've really made the grade
>> And the papers want to know who shot you where <---------is this
>> line correct?!?! CH
>> Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.
>
>"And the papers what to know who's shirts you wear."
>
>Or, at least, that's what *I* always heard when I sang out loud (badly off
>key) to the song
>
>Terry
You're right, Terry.
("who shot you where???")
mll...@dewlap.com
In article <6fvb78$r9l$1...@usenet76.supernews.com>,
"Nigel Tufnel" <T...@smear.con> wrote:
> >
> There was a video? Never saw it. Anyway, if Bowie made a video for the
> song, wouldn't it represent the correct interpretation of *his own work*?
>
Bowie made two videos for the song. The first is a very early, very campy
version on "Love You Till Tuesday" where he's sitting in this bubble thing
with a shirt on that reads "Major Tom", and he also plays the part of Ground
Control wearing a shirt that reads "Ground Control". Go figure, it was the
mid-sixties and he had no real budget for this stuff.
The second is available on a video compilation, and just shows him as Ziggy
Stardust strumming a guitar, with intermittent shots of what looks like an
oscilloscope's screen. Kind of dull by comparison.
I'm sure there's a Peter Schilling video, though I have never seen it.
Marianne
Vicky
I always assumed that Peter Shilling made a sequel to Space Oddity. In
Bowie's Space Oddity, Major Tom is lost in space. In Shilling's Major Tom,
he's coming home. Makes perfect sense to me.
Now, what I always wondered is why Major Tom is mentioned in two Bowie
songs; Space Oddity and Ashes to Ashes (Ashes to ashes, funk to funky, we
know Major Tom's a junky...)
Rich Pfeifer wrote in message ...
Penny Dreadful
In article <6fvb78$r9l$1...@usenet76.supernews.com>, "Nigel Tufnel"
<T...@smear.con> wrote:
> There was a video? Never saw it. Anyway, if Bowie made a video for the
> song, wouldn't it represent the correct interpretation of *his own work*?
>
> --------->Nigel Tufnel<-----------------
I was referring to the video for Schilling's song, not for "Space Oddity."
Just to be perfectly clear.
I have seen a few clips of Bowie doing "Space Oddity" that *could* be
construed as the late '60s version of a video--I think it was in the PBS
series on the history of Rock'n'Roll. As I recall, though, there was
nothing to these clips other than Bowie standing around singing and
playing an acoustic guitar.
love love love--
Penny Dreadful
"Pshaw! All those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!"
imav...@hotmail.com
The video for Schilling's "Major Tom" was typical odd 80s fare, w/ footage of
space exploration, a stack of cars w/ his band singing in the top one,
Schilling singing to the camera, and then I guess what a malt shop would look
like in outer space...
The whole concept of Major Tom "Coming home" is what gives credence to the
alien thing. Okay, if he's in space and he's coming home, that means he's
from space, i.e. what kind of being is from space=an alien.
I think part of this theory might be on that Early 80s song of the week page,
if any of you know what I'm talking about. I THINK, (Think) I read that
somewhere, actually...
=Carrie=
Michael Carmody
Bowie's first reference to Major Tom is ,of course, in his 1969 single
"Space Oddity." However, the "sequel" to that song was Bowie's own
"Ashes to Ashes," released around 1978 or so. In "Ashes to Ashes," Bowie
sings, "Do you remember a guy who's been / in such an early song / I
heard a rumor from ground control..." then finishes the song with the
repeated chant: "My mama says / to get things done / you better not mess
with Major Tom."
Schilling's "Major Tom: Coming Home" was probably inspired by Bowie
(what modern pop musician isn't?), but the songs have nothing to do with
one another.
There is no specific event to which these refer; rather, Bowie's
metaphor for alienation has proved quite popular in these wacky modern
times.
Keep the faith
Carmody
BillyRay
Well.
> Hahahaha.....if he says he did not rip of Bowie he is FULL OF SHIT.
> First, Space Oddity is a classic that anyone with even a passing
> interest in Rock music would have heard. Himself, being some sort of
> musician, surely would have known this song. Second, although I have
> never heard of this Shilling guy before today, I looked up the lyrics
> (because I have LOTS of free time at work) and the similarities (ie. the
> countdown, the "tell my wife" part and the whole theme) are simply too
> similar.
This really doesn't prove anything. Schilling's song was originally in
German, and I doubt that he translated it himself. Maybe whoever translated
the song found the similarities of "Major Tom" and "astronaut floating in
space" so striking that he decided to make the English version a Bowie
homage.
Does anyone have the German lyrics?
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