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Background

2-5 Rock Influence

6-10 Genre

11-19

Pure inspirations,

Feeling and Talent

80’s & 90’s Music

Rock more than Sounds

Grunge, New sound New

rock

Here is the Glam Rock

“Rock in Rio” and “Rock al

Parque”

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80's & 90's

Music

Why so successful?

Why after all these years the 80's and 90's

music is still alive? Where is the magic of

these two decades? What is so special about

it? Why is it so successful?

The 80's and 90's were a very creative era

There are two periods

in history in which the

music changed and

marked the direction of

society worldwide. The

first was the 60's, the

decade in which young

people dressed in

colors to fight against

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80's & 90's

Why so successful?

Why after all these years the 80's and 90's

music is still alive? Where is the magic of

these two decades? What is so special about

The 80's and 90's were a

the war in one harmonious chorus, was called

Rock!

The second one was definitely the 80's, a

period that marked the world in so many

ways, today we refer to it simply as "the

legendary 80's".

Without detriment to the first, the early 80's

were a period of overflowing creativity,

boundless youthful expression, reflected in its

films, its music, its people. This music invites

you to break social paradigms as

cultural revolutions; many important facts

take place in those years and maybe that is

where the inspirations come from: The fall of

the Berlin wall, the Chernobyl disaster, the

Iran–Iraq war, John Lennon's murder, the

beginning of the AIDS pandemic, Gulf war,

Soviet Union's dissolution, the world started

to speak about global warming.

Music piracy wasn't so strong

Another important

factor which helped the

music succeed was

underdeveloped

technology.

On those days you couldn´t download the hit

of the moment from the internet to your iPod,

you just had to pay for it. So, at the beginning

the record companies had more money

available to take risks on new talents, so much

money for the promotion and publicity, for

producing and promoting music videos and

for everything else. That's the reason why, the

entire industry was so spectacular and created

a very strong memory for every single human

that listened, saw and felt all the music of

these decades

the war in one harmonious chorus, was called

The second one was definitely the 80's, a

period that marked the world in so many

r to it simply as "the

Without detriment to the first, the early 80's

were a period of overflowing creativity,

boundless youthful expression, reflected in its

films, its music, its people. This music invites

you to break social paradigms as a result of

cultural revolutions; many important facts

take place in those years and maybe that is

where the inspirations come from: The fall of

the Berlin wall, the Chernobyl disaster, the

Iraq war, John Lennon's murder, the

ndemic, Gulf war,

Soviet Union's dissolution, the world started

to speak about global warming.

Music piracy wasn't so

On those days you couldn´t download the hit

of the moment from the internet to your iPod,

you just had to pay for it. So, at the beginning

had more money

available to take risks on new talents, so much

money for the promotion and publicity, for

producing and promoting music videos and

for everything else. That's the reason why, the

entire industry was so spectacular and created

memory for every single human

that listened, saw and felt all the music of


Since the end of the 90's,

the music industry has

been strongly punished by

illegal online downloading,

that means less sales and

less money for companies

to invest in artists and

music, which also means no

time to flourish as an artist.

As a new artist you have to

be successful since the very

beginning.

Nowadays, the music is too available and it

makes that those songs burn so quickly. In

the past, if you didn't buy the song, you just

had to wait until it was

played on the radio or TV. I

think this wait brought

magic and got to keep it in

people's mind for a long

time.

In my opinion, the best

proof of the level reached

by the rock in the 80's and

90's was that it managed to

establish as the universal

rhythm and it was sung in

every language around The

globe.

By Daveiva Barrera Celis


Rock Music in

80`s and 90`s

Pure inspirations,

Feeling and Talent

Rock music is a musical genre from 20th

century that was developed during and after

1960´s, especially in the United Kingdom and

United States. It has its roots in the 40´s and

50´s Rock and Roll music, whose influence is

done by rhythm like blues and country

music. Rock music also was influenced on a

number of other genres such a blues and folk

as well as it incorporated influences from

jazz, classical music and other musical

sources. Usually, Rock music is interpreted,

among many other instruments that

normally are added, with electric and

acoustic guitars, drums, bass, and voices and

sometimes keyboard instruments such as

organs or synthesizers.

Particularly, 80´s and 90´s was an amazing

time for the growth of Rock Music, given that

there were a lot of great bands and singers

like: Queen, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Iron

Maiden, Black Sabbath, White Snake, Dire

Straits, Metallica, Guns and Roses, Eric

Clapton, Carlos Santana, Kraken, among

many others. Specifically, according to a

survey about the 100 best songs of the 80´s

made by the specialized music channel Vh1,

the top five were the next songs: 5th for

Madonna with “like a virgin”, 4th for George

Michael with “careless whisper”, third place

for Guns and Roses with “November Rain”,

second place for Dire Straits with “Sultans of

Swings” and the winner was Queen with

“Bohemian Rhapsody”. According to these

results, it showed the predominance of rock

music in that time. Consequently, all

marketing and advertising was stronger for

rock music than for another kind of music in

those decades.

In the same way, the music business has

been a great opportunity for music

producers, as well as for specialized channels

like MTV, that created in 1984 the MTV

Video Music Awards. Besides, famous

concerts performed like Live at Wembley,

Live Aid or Rock in Rio, collected millions of

dollars. Especially, The Freddie Mercury

Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was an

open-air concert held on Easter Monday,

April 20th, 1992 at London's Wembley

Stadium, for an audience of 72,000 people.

The concert was broadcasted live on

television and radio to 76 countries around

the world, with an audience of up to one

billion. The profits from the concert were

used to launch The Mercury Phoenix Trust

AIDS charity organization.

In conclusion, Rock music of 80´s and 90´s

left a real legend on people around the world

and most of them, according to comments

on social networks, and including me, feel

that music of these years was much more

interesting, ingenious and emotional than

music nowadays. Finally, I have to add why

we haven´t forgotten that time? Maybe

tomorrow we could find a better way to

continue doing real music like classic rock

music!

By Diego Vivas.


The rock

growth in the

80´s and 90´s

Generally, the rock is the sound with

more power among all types of music that

was born in United States on the XX Century,

but everyone is asking, ¿where was the rock

born?, which means this sound?. The root of

the rock began with the blues, with just a

guitar, a bass and drums, instruments that

made the most amazing sound for the

rebellious youth of all the times Now, let's

see the most important moments of rock in

80's and 90's.

The Rock in the 80´s has its roots in

the age of rock and roll in the 50´s, at the

pass of the years, the rock has several

fusions such as folk, blues, jazz, hard and

progress rock, and it has created many

subgenres such as New wave, New romantic,

synthetic and alternative rock. Also the rock

has had a crisis since a stupid fanatic killed

the singer John Lennon, of the band the

Beatles; the most awful event in the music

history and in the world. Furthermore, other

incredible event was on the TV, 24 hours of

music and The Radiophonic died suddenly.

In the 80´s, the top 5 were: Marillo,

Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, Poisson, Red hot

chili Peppers (Source: Wikipedia). Now in the

90´s, a technique change, NO MORE

cassette, the compact disc was wonderful,

that had 74 minutes of music without stops.

The other thing that changed was the

parties. The teenagers did not go to clubs

and bars now they go to garages, malls, and

streets alone where a DJ is playing.

In that decade, subgenres like Black

metal, grunge, funk and rap were born and

these are the generations that will be forever

in our hearts. This is the top 5 in the 90´s:

Nirvana, Placebo, Ramstein, Metallica, and

the Chemical Brothers. (Source: Wikipedia).

The fans of rock were in the 80's and 90's

and this time leave us incredible songs and

that with just a guitar, bass and drums was

possible this rumbling sound, which never

change and it is and will be the genre that

moves the masses worldwide.

This sound like no other feeling

makes you live without equal, you can cry,

laugh or just say no more. What makes an

Impression genre. In conclusion as well as

English is the universal language, the rock

musical genre is the universal of all times.

By Deisy Abril


ROCK MORE THAN SOUNDS

Music is the combining art of sounds through human voices or instruments. Music is a very

important expression that humans have created to show his feelings throughout the history. Rock,

for example, represents different ways of thinking; also, because people like to express their

opinions with this genre, specifically young people.

This genre was born in the 50's. This new genre was born as a “counterculture movement”

of young people for young people, when the lyrics of the songs show all the things that they were

thinking but they could not say. Its influence begins with the sound, it is loud, its lyrics, its

messages and also with the help of its main instruments like guitar, drums and keyboards.

On the other hand, they are different artists of this genre who gave life to a new way of

expression and a peaceful protest. Some of them were, first, Elvis presley (1935-1977) "The King of

Rock and Roll".

He helps in the recognition and acceptation of the Black culture in United States, through

his music. Second, the Beatles (Decade of the 60’s) and with them "The Beatle-mania" was born.

A group conformed for their fans, also, their influenced in the hair style and clothes in this time, as

well as they inspired other movements, for example, "women's liberation", "gay liberation" and

topics about the care of environment. Third, in the beginning of the 90’s Grunge was born, a

young subculture, and with that it was born a new fashion, like ski hats than cost a lot. Bands like

Nirvana, promoted that.

These are topics that they (bands or artists) can show, for example during its concerts,

with its sound loud they show rebellion, other artists can

show peaceful protest, for example, this song of Michael

Jackson, "They do not care about us" who was other artist

than influence in this genre. Other artists can show their

songs with topics like peace and equality to everyone, for

example groups like U2 and the Beatles


"Beat me, hate me

You can never break me

Will me, thrill me

You can never kill me

Do me, Sue me

Everybody do me

Kick me, strike me

Don't you black or white me"

Through the rock, people express their feelings and thoughts with more freedom. The music is

able to transform the society, stay and change, break barriers and get to the heart; because Rock

is more than sounds!

Source: www.wikipedia.org

By. Cristina Ferrer.


Remember that everything changed

in the 80'S AND 90 this is our story

Here you can find your own style about old times so-called 80's and 90's that came

with new cultures and music. Do you remember?

You remember these crazy days make us cringe with embarrassment of the different styles.

You remember this style that reached the heavens with frizzy passion, or maybe ponytails, or

when you used hairspray. This was like to an explosion about being oneself.

In the 80's, hairstyles like long curly or French braids and also mullet for men was the hairstyle.

Moreover, the look of 80’s is quite particular, there were shims, big sweaters and brightly

colored hipster high, a lot of pads, shake and volume hair, very large accessories such as

belts, striped garments and leather jackets with shoulder pads.

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Our journey through time has taken a most excellent turn! In the 90's these styles were

different, dyed with other colors and with high lights in the hair. It is more like blond hair, and also

90's clothing was very similar to the 80's clothes. Many trends were maintained for years.

However, gradually began to disappear, because people seek their own style and they wanted to

feel really good and be originals.

The fashion in the 90's was not characterized by a specific style, but it’d rather was defined as

an urge people to stamp their individuality through their clothes and with the contribution of

some musical trends.

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In these years or epochs, that you maybe were an exciting time of cigars, Macarena but most of

all, they created a pop culture storm whose effects are yet very important. It’s a new generation

that we always remember but we believe we won’t use again. Don’t forget this I mean did a major

change in humanity!

By Paula


THE ROCK’S INFLUENCES ON THE

80’S

The rock has been a big time in the development of the people; and we are still hearing

from classics songs to the evolution of genres that we hear today. But the most important of this

culture is to know about their ideologies and to know where their movements and ways of

thinking were born.

Rock’s ideologies were born from Marxism, I mean; its objective is to convert the society

and protest against the thinking of modern man. The first ages of the 80’s would bring tragic

events that marked the history of rock, like the death of John Lennon, Bob Marley and John

Bonham. These events marked a fall by the bands most important of 60’s and 70’s, and as

consequence it was born a lot of diversities of genres about rock like: heavy metal, punk, new

wave, dance pop and others.

The influence of these bands and the birth of Big Bands like Rolling Stones, The Doors,

Jimmy Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, occurred between the young people.

Their need of being like their favorites artists, like long hair, skinny pants, leather jacket, it meant a

symbol of rebellion and disorder, or it was the stereotype of how the people knew them.

By Daniel Caita.


ARGENTINE ROCK

The beginning of the Spanish rock

was in the late 50´s, when Mexican and

Spanish bands singing hits English. The first

hit in the Spanish rock was "La Bamba", one

of the regional Mexican songs interpreted by

Ritchie Valens in 1958. Then, another

Mexican singer, Danny Flores in 1958,

became the father of rock in Spanish. In

Argentina, the new genre finally exploded in

March 1955 when it was included the song

"Rock Around the Clock in the movie "Semilla

de Maldad". This article attempts to show

the history of some argentine bands and

their influence.

The Argentine rock began in the mid

50´s with the name of "Progressive Music"

and later "Country Rock 1" when the bands

started to sing songs with an important

content to youth of that time. The pioneers

were: Tanguito Luis Alberto Spinetta, leader

of Almendra, Miguel Abuelo, soloist and

leader of Los Abuelos de la Nada y Pappo.

Then, other bands came, Charly García,

soloist and leader of Sui Generis, La Máquina

de Hacer Pájaros y Serú Girán, Fito Páez,

Gustavo Cerati, Soda Stereo, Andrés

Calamaro, Miguel Mateos, among many

others.

One of these bands was Sui Generis,

this band was born from the union of youth

bands led by Charly Garcia (piano, acoustic

guitar and vocals) and Nito Mestre (flute,

acoustic guitar and vocals). Popularity and

fame came during the first half of the 70's.

They became one of the largest

groups of Argentine rock. Several of the

songs in this group talked about what was

happening in Argentina in the time of

military dictatorship. One the most famous

songs of this duo is "Rasguñas las piedras".

It's a hymn of the military dictatorship in

Argentina. It's the story of dead, missing and

detained people in secret, where they were

locked in cells separated by walls attached,

then the prisoners were scratching the wall

and the stones and if the other would

answer with the same sound, it meant he

was still alive, otherwise he was taken to be

tortured and killed. The group disbanded in

1975 due to major socio-political pressures

that existed in Argentina and the problems of

censoring their music, their last concert

attended by about thirty thousand people in

each role. Then in 1980 and 2001 they came

together

to give some concerts. Today, both artists continue their careers as soloists.


The other important band was Soda

Stereo, one of the most influential and

important in Latin America to founded in

Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati

(guitar and vocals), Héctor "Zeta" Bosio (bass

and vocals) y Carlos Alberto Ficicchia (Charly

Alberti, drums and percussion). His song "De

Música Ligera" was considered the second

best in the Spanish-American rock and fourth

best of all time, both the Latin rock, and the

Argentine rock, this song ("Música ligera")

was chosen to close their las concert in 1997

before their separation. Soda Stereo was the

first band to out of the local limits of their

country of origin and to be considered Latin

America as a unified culture language,

including the United States.

The rock in Spanish and Argentine

rock especially with many fans now have

more and more artists who dare to sing in

Spanish. The Argentine rock continues to be

a reflection of the reality of the country.

Andres Calamaro, Bersuit Vergarabat and

others are a good example of this. Today the

Argentine rock fused with other rhythms as

funk and tango very interesting presenting

alternatives for fans of this genre.

By Monica Franco

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1 Progressive Music means that took initially innovative gender and the importance it attaches to the

harmonic progression. One of his most characteristic clichés is the gradual transition from a pastoral to an

urban sound, tinged with impressionism


Do you like to know

about crazy bands

and glamorous

styles?

Here is the Glam Rock

Since several years ago, rock music has been

strongly marked in each generation and it

has been influenced as total revolution of

music with its great musical style. Just as

each day, past generations, older people and

young people go crazy for big groups which it

had been leave their mark and a great legacy

to the music’s history. The objective is that

you can know and recognize a new and good

style! Already that still survives in all genres

of music and this can be interesting for you.

Among many groups and genres were born

songs full fresh development called the Glam

Rock! It was born in Britain with the singers

Bod Dylan and David Bowie, who started the

innovation of the music but mostly with

aesthetic and appearance. First, they

rebelled and played with sexual ambiguity

and displaying a brazen and provocative

attitude. Second, they increased to wear

futuristic clothes with bright, platform boots,

hairstyles and make up. For example Bod

Dylan introduced glamorous style and

aesthetic leopard prints, the top hats,

feather boas and glitter.

The other characteristic, it was created by

the artist T. Rex, who included styles as

cabaret theatrics, Victorian literary, occult

mysticism, science fiction and mythology. It

manifested itself in outrageous clothes,

make up and showmanship. The Group

Duran Duran was other influential group with

great sound and a new image of innovation,

besides they showed videos around the

planet where they were riding a camel with

pyramids in the Taj Mahal or with sculptural

models. This aspect led to a better tendency.

In consequence of this change and

innovation, many bands emerged with the

new glamorous style. The most prominent

were Motley Crue, Dokken, Guns N Roses,

Bon Jovi, Cinderella twisted sister, Kiss and

Poison. Today a lot of bands don’t exist with

this style but their music is preserved in

some places of our country and by adult

people that vibrates with this genre.

However young people continue with this

style in all parts the world, because the Glam

Rock will never be forgotten and they will

continue in the minds of the people and new

bands appear glamorous as the band “The

cure”. So you must jump into the new world

of glam rock and the madness of the same.

BY: Liliana Pinto


Grunge, New

sound New

rock

The time passes, but the music remains

intact. Since 1991 when the music changed

radically and expanded to new things, it was

known as Grunge. It´s a genre inspired by

punk, and hard rock, and with essence of

indie rock. So, grunge was well known and it

was successful in the middle 90s, in this time

the grunge had a strong influence on young

people who follow the freedom and

independent spirit.

The names of Nirvana, Pearl Jam,

Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden

and Alice In Chains were not anonymous

anymore and became the biggest bands of

the era, and as a result the grunge, music left

a great discs and remembered for all eternity

as Nevermind by Nirvana, this is a classic of

music world; other as Badmotorfinger by

Soundgarden one of the most interesting

albums that rock has given us; following by

Dirt of Alice in Chains for lovers to heavy

rock, hard rock, very close to heavy metal

among many others that took grunge style to

make their own sounds.

The success of grunge was his tragedy at

the same time, the excesses generated by

the sudden fame and influence in the lives of

those protagonists that left an immense

tragedy that many people started to ask:

“This is what I want?” “Do I want that death

be a constant part of my life?” Because Kurt

Cobain, a singer of Nirvana, Layne Stanley of

Alice in chains, Andy Word of mother love

bone, all ones have their owns history about

suicide, abuse of drugs, so they were lost

souls in a word that enjoy with their music.

The best influence of Grunge for the

universal music was the claim of

independence and the art that they gave to

the music in that time, and a lot of bands had

a vision of the biggest objective, they said:

“Should always be honest musicians, desire

to create and identity of what you do

because no one can buy what our mind

creates.”

By: Angela Rodriguez


Rock it all in

“Rock in Rio”and

“Rock al Parque”

What do you know about Rock? Have you

visited some rock event? Rock appeared in

the late 40’s- early 50’s in United States.

Rock has its musical origin in blues, jazz

country, folk and gospel. The main

instruments are electric guitars, string bass,

drums, piano and sometimes saxophone.

Rock has influenced lifestyles, fashion,

attitudes and languages; throughout the

time, it has created new concepts about

music, such as “Rock Festival”: a different

way to live. Most people share the Rock’s

love all over the world, therefore, in

Colombia we have “Rock al Parque”; similar

event.

Rock in Rio was born in 1985 and it has ten

different versions: Four in Rio of Janeiro,

Brazil, four in Lisboa, Spain, and two in

Madrid, Spain. This festival has innumeracy

international musicians, such as Red Hot Chili

Peppers, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Metallica and

lots of bands like those. Recently, “Rock in

Rio” has had an attendance of lover 720,000

music fans.

This event is looking to stage international

activities such as zip line, ferris wheel,

fashion space and “Rock Street” with thirty

restaurants, bars and shops. The last

festival, on 2011, brought international

superstars such as Queen, Guns N’ Roses,

Prince, REM, Shakira, Lady Gaga, Radiohead

and Metallica. The doors opened the show

from 3 pm to 4 am each day. Rock in Rio has

a large recreation area with soccer fields,

places where you will be able to ride bike

and everything you can imagine to have a

nice day.


Roberto Medina is a Brazilian businessman of

“Rock in Rio”. He said: “The event has

brought together an audience of over 5

million people, all cheering to the sound of

656 live bands”. It has over 780 hours of

music and broadcasts for about a billion of

viewers in 80 countries. In just 20 days,

100,000 tickets were sold for event that took

place from 23rd September to 2nd October.

The economic impact created by this event

has a rate of 419 million us dollars per year.

An overall of 720,000 viewers attended the

festival, where 55% were natives and the

rest were tourist.

“Rock al Parque” was born in Bogota,

Colombia. It’s considered one of the most

important rock festivals in Latin America.

People enjoy listening ska, punk, hardcore

and metal.

First edition was celebrated in 1995; the

Bogota’s Institute of Culture and Tourism has

organized and supported this event with

resources and the logistic. This event has

had place in Simon Bolivar Park and Olaya

Herrera’s Stadium.

Originally, “Rock al Parque” just included

rock music, but gradually opened up its

doors to promote other genres, such as

punk, reggae, ska and blues. When national

bands participate, they have an economic

incentive and they get new contracts; the

chosen bands will win prizes, apart from the

privilege of sharing the stage with

international bands. Selling alcohol is not

allowed nor smoking or wearing belts with

metallic buckles. Furthermore, all artists

have to go through an inspection security

routine before going to the stage. The

festival’s entry is free. Concerts are

scheduled from 1:00pm to 10:00 pm; no one

is allowed to keep playing after 10:00pm due

to security reasons. The last event had an

audience of over 3,092,000 music fans and

473 artists.


In conclusion Rock is important kind of music

around the world, many people love this

genre and It isn't impossible rock finish

never. During the time many generations

know the rock and they love it forever.

Rock in Rio just, the most important

international event around the world, during

11 versions have achieved the purpose, to

have together a lot of known bands and

many people together enjoying, singing and

dancing rock. You can find in this festival the

best way for many genrations find how to

share a good moments through rock. Rock

festival resulted in great benefits for the

rockers and the city.

Rock al Parque how festival or event has

been changing and improving the concept

because the last version was organized

Business Meetings by national bands they

got to exchange with other international

bands. Those bands now have many

opportunities to develop their artistic career.

Additionally both events promote

educational campaign with young people,

Rock in Rio collect many guitars for the child

without resources the topic is “All with a

Guitar” and Rock al Parque promote the

conscience learning nature careful and the

topic is “Nature Rock” and “Alive Nature”

By: Luisa Vargas


BENEFIT ROCK

CONCERTS

In the 70`s and 80`s was born a musical

genre the "ROCK", that changed world's

history. This was the youth's answer to social

situation in that time. Everybody knows that

rock is the most popular music in the world,

therefore each country has an important and

national band. Thats why great bands get

together in order to organize benefit

concerts to influence in social or politic

issues.

"Concert for Bangladesh" was the first event

done for a social cause, this was in 1791 and

in it participated artist like Ringo Star, Billy

Preston, Bod Dylan, Eric Clapton together

with others bands. After a few years the big

bands met to sing in a concert again, It was

to protest for the use of nuclear energy,

almost 200 000 people attended.

The most important benefit rock concert in

the 80`s it was named "Live Aid" the concerts

target was to raise funds for Ethiopian

famine. This concert was born when Bob

Geldof saw in a newspaper pictures or

millions of people starving to death in

Ethiopia, then he organized the event at the

Wembley Stadium (London).

In the "Live Aid" concert different bands

played like Coldstream Guards, Status Quo,

Mick Jagger, Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins, U2,

Queen, Elvis Costello and Freddie Mercury,

many of them also were in the two major

concerts in the 90`s. These events were

amazing because brought together more

than 150 musical artists around the world

and millions of people shouted their ideas.


The rock has been a very big musical

movement in the world, but besides of

song’s lyrics also rock has let people join to

help in big social causes like AIDS, famine,

social injustice and others. Therefore when

you listen to a rock song, you can think about

the relation between the humanity and the

rock. LONG LIFE ROCK.

By. Fredi Barón

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