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viernes, 31 de agosto de 2012
EXHIBICION EN BOGOTA - FOTOS
Continúa la exhibición en Bogotá, Colombia gracias a McCann WorldGroup y Momentum quienes son los que llevan a este país y por primera vez a Latinoamérica, las dos exhibiciones itinerantes sobre John y The Beatles. Aquí algunas fotos.
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LIVERPOOL ESPERA 400,000 PERSONAS ESTE FIN DE SEMANA POR 50 ANIVERSARIO DE THE BEATLES
Liverpool espera acoger este fin de semana entre 400.000 turistas adictos al pop por las celebraciones del 50 aniversario de Los Beatles. Una celebración que se realiza cada agosto desde hace más de 30 años y que coincide con ‘The International Beatle convention’ y el ‘Port Sunlight Summer festival’ donde tocarán hasta 60 grupos. La ‘International Beatle Week’ es una celebración anual de la música y la herencia de un grupo que ya es un fenómeno global. El 18 de agosto se cumplían 50 años desde la primera aparición de Ringo Starr como batería oficial de The Beatles y para celebrarlo el epicentro de Mathew Street se ha convertido estos días en el escenario donde se rinde tributo a la banda. Entre los numerosos eventos que conmemorarán este medio siglo y que se espera atraiga entre 350 y 400.000 visitantes a la ciudad, cabe destacar ‘The International Beatle convention’ que se celebrará en el Hotel Adelphi y el ‘Port Sunlight Summer festival’: una feria veraniega que se celebra en el pueblo donde Ringo tocó como miembro de The Beatles por primera vez . Durante el sábado y el domingo tocarán un total de 60 bandas procedentes de todas partes del mundo: The Sutcliffes, The Merseybeats, Meat The Beatles, etc. A los acontecimientos musicales hay que añadirles los cien puestos de artesanías y el show de moda vintage que consagrarán al grupo por su cumpleaños. Además todo ello en una ciudad que ya de por sí es un escenario de culto para The Beatles.Un apartamento flotante pintado como el submarino amarillo y atracado en el muelle, The Cavern: el mítico club de Liverpool asociado para siempre al grupo o el aeropuerto John Lennon Imagine son algunas de las curiosidades que los fans podrán disfrutar simplemente paseando. Esta semana de agosto fue crucial para The Beatle. El 18 de agosto la entrada de Ringo, el 19 la primera vez que tocaron en The Cavern con Ringo y el 22 la primera vez que la televisión grabó a The Beatles tocando en directo. En octubre será el aniversario de la publicación del sencillo ‘Love me do’. Para lo que ya se ha hablado de batir el récord Guinness de mayor cantidad de gente junta cantando una canción de los Beatles con más de 6.000 personas.
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PAUL, RINGO, SEAN & YOKO ONO AMONG ARTIST SUPPORTING ANTI-FRAKING CAMPAING
Surviving Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are among the many stars who are supporting an environmental campaign launched by John Lennon‘s widow, Yoko Ono, and son Sean. The Artists Against Fracking coalition seeks to put an end to hydraulic fracking, a method of extracting natural gas from deep in the earth that some say can potentially contaminate water supplies and release harmful chemicals into the environment. The initiative was organized after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced recently that the gas companies may soon start fracking in the state. An online petition asking Cuomo not to allow the mining technique to be used in New York has been posted at the Artists Against Fracking website. Others artists who are backing the anti-fracking campaign include David Crosby, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne,Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, Patti Smith Group, Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen, former Talking Headsfrontman David Byrne, ex-Santana/Journey singer/keyboardist Greg Rolie, The Allman Brothers Band‘sWarren Haynes, The B-52s and Bonnie Raitt. “Protecting our drinking water is fundamental to life,” notes Sean Lennon in a statement. “And people worldwide know that as a species, we are near a tipping point…We all have a responsibility to preserve the planet’s life-support systems for future generations.”
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DESTROYING PRECIOUS LAND FOR GAS By SEAN LENNON (THE NEW YORK TIMES)
Destroying Precious Land for Gas
By SEAN LENNON
ON the northern tip of Delaware County, N.Y., where the Catskill Mountains curl up into little kitten hills, and Ouleout Creek slithers north into the Susquehanna River, there is a farm my parents bought before I was born. My earliest memories there are of skipping stones with my father and drinking unpasteurized milk. There are bald eagles and majestic pines, honeybees and raspberries. My mother even planted a ring of white birch trees around the property for protection.
A few months ago I was asked by a neighbor near our farm to attend a town meeting at the local high school. Some gas companies at the meeting were trying very hard to sell us on a plan to tear through our wilderness and make room for a new pipeline: infrastructure for hydraulic fracturing. Most of the residents at the meeting, many of them organic farmers, were openly defiant. The gas companies didn’t seem to care. They gave us the feeling that whether we liked it or not, they were going to fracture our little town.
In the late ’70s, when Manhattanites like Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger were turning Montauk and East Hampton into an epicurean Shangri-La for the Studio 54 crowd, my parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, were looking to become amateur dairy farmers. My first introduction to a cow was being taught how to milk it by hand. I’ll never forget the realization that fresh milk could be so much sweeter than what we bought in grocery stores. Although I was rarely able to persuade my schoolmates to leave Long Island for what seemed to them an unreasonably rural escapade, I was lucky enough to experience trout fishing instead of tennis lessons, swimming holes instead of swimming pools and campfires instead of cable television.
Though my father died when I was 5, I have always felt lucky to live on land he loved dearly; land in an area that is now on the verge of being destroyed. When the gas companies showed up in our backyard, I felt I needed to do some research. I looked into Pennsylvania, where hundreds of families have been left with ruined drinking water, toxic fumes in the air, industrialized landscapes, thousands of trucks and new roads crosshatching the wilderness, and a devastating and irreversible decline in property value.
Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy. It inevitably leaks toxic chemicals into the air and water. Industry studies show that 5 percent of wells can leak immediately, and 60 percent over 30 years. There is no such thing as pipes and concrete that won’t eventually break down. It releases a cocktail of chemicals from a menu of more than 600 toxic substances, climate-changing methane, radium and, of course, uranium.
New York is lucky enough to have some of the best drinking water in the world. The well water on my family’s farm comes from the same watersheds that supply all the reservoirs in New York State. That means if our tap water gets dirty, so does New York City’s.
Gas produced this way is not climate- friendly. Within the first 20 years, methane escaping from within and around the wells, pipelines and compressor stations is 105 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. With more than a tiny amount of methane leakage, this gas is as bad as coal is for the climate; and since over half the wells leak eventually, it is not a small amount. Even more important, shale gas contains one of the earth’s largest carbon reserves, many times more than our atmosphere can absorb. Burning more than a small fraction of it will render the climate unlivable, raise the price of food and make coastlines unstable for generations.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, when speaking for “the voices in the sensible center,” seems to think the New York State Association of County Health Officials, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the New York State Nurses Association and the Medical Society of the State of New York, not to mention Dr. Anthony R. Ingraffea’s studies at Cornell University, are “loud voices at the extremes.” The mayor’s plan to “make sure that the gas is extracted carefully and in the right places” is akin to a smoker telling you, “Smoking lighter cigarettes in the right place at the right time makes it safe to smoke.”
Few people are aware that America’s Natural Gas Alliance has spent $80 million in a publicity campaign that includes the services of Hill and Knowlton — the public relations firm that through most of the ’50s and ’60s told America that tobacco had no verifiable links to cancer. Natural gas is clean, and cigarettes are healthy — talk about disinformation. To try to counteract this, my mother and I have started a group called Artists Against Fracking.
My father could have chosen to live anywhere. I suspect he chose to live here because being a New Yorker is not about class, race or even nationality; it’s about loving New York. Even the United States Geological Survey has said New York’s draft plan fails to protect drinking water supplies, and has also acknowledged the likely link between hydraulic fracturing and recent earthquakes in the Midwest. Surely the voice of the “sensible center” would ask to stop all hydraulic fracturing so that our water, our lives and our planet could be protected and preserved for generations to come.
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jueves, 30 de agosto de 2012
CANDLESTICK PARK, SAN FRANCISCO : SE CUMPLEN 46 AÑOS DE ULTIMO SHOW DE THE BEATLES EN UN ESTADIO
El último show de The Beatles:Candlestick Park, 29 de agosto de 1966
Las giras y los conciertos que desataron el furor de miles de jóvenes que asistieron a los shows de los Beatles, tuvieron su final el lunes 29 de agosto de 1966, en el Candlestick Park de San Francisco, Estados Unidos, cuando John, Paul, George y Ringo decidieron no hacer más presentaciones en vivo.
The Beatles dieron su último show en vivo un día como hoy, en 1966, en el Candlestick Park de San Francisco. Teminó así, un período de cuatro años de giras - aproximadamente 1,400 presentaciones en shows a nivel internacional. Esta última gira se caracterizó por haber tenido una serie de inconvenientes y dificultades que incluían la famosa declaración de John a la periodista Maureen Cleave del Evening Standard sobre "Los Beatles eran mas populares que Jesús" algo que no presentó mayor incidencia en Inglaterra pero que sí destó muchas complicaciones al otro lado del Atlántico. Comenzó entonces las hostilidades por parte de los medios de comunicación norteaméricanos, discos quemados y boicoteos a sus shows por parte del Ku Klux Khan. John pidió disculpas una vez que llegaron a Chicago, esto fue el 11 de agosto de 1966. The Beatles ya habían decidido terminar con las giras y presentaciones en vivo.
El lunes 29 de agosto de 1966 el grupo dió su último concierto de la gira norteamericana. The Cyrkle, The Ronettes y The Remains fueron los grupos que se presentaron previamente a The Beatles. El Estadio Candlestick Park de San Francisco reunió a aproximadamente 25,000 personas (no lo llenó, ya que su capacidad era para 42,500 personas), el show duró 33 minutos.
Se inició a las 9:27p.m
SETLIST:
"Rock and Roll Music", "She's a Woman", "If I Needed Someone", "Day Tripper", "Baby's in Black", "I Feel Fine", "Yesterday", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Nowhere Man", "Paperback Writer" y "Long Tall Sally".
Foto:Cartel del último show.
En el backstage se encontraban Joan Baez y Mimi Farina , además de gran cantidad de periodistas. Los fans ignoraban que este sería su último show ante el público.
A pedido de Paul, el show fue grabado. Pero no en su totalidad: La cinta donde se grabó se terminó antes y solo se pudo grabar hasta el último tema Long Tall Sally pero cortado. Tony Barrow agente de prensa del grupo fue el encargado de grabar el concierto en una grabadora de cassette Philips con un micrófono marca Beyer. Barrow estuvo grabando el show en el campo,directamente desde los parlantes.
Al show se l considera como el último por haber sido organizado en un estadio y haber sido con venta de entradas al público. Una fan de 15 años filmó partes del concierto pero hasta la fecha no se tiene más material fílmico.
John y Paul llevaron cámaras fotográficas al escenario e hicieron varias tomas del grupo mismo.
John y Paul llevaron cámaras fotográficas al escenario e hicieron varias tomas del grupo mismo.
Se declaró el fin de una era de shows en vivo, pero esto dió inicio a una nueva etapa de experimentación y busqueda de nuevos sonidos en el estudio de grabación.Enriquecedor para todos.
A CONTINUACIÓN EL AUDIO DE ESTE SHOW:
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miércoles, 29 de agosto de 2012
AUG. 28 1966: THE BEATLES AT DODGER STADIUM IN L.A
Paul and John perform at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Aug. 28, 1966. The image appeared in a weekly newspaper published by Los Angeles radio station KRLA, which presented the show. Bob Eubanks, who lives in Westlake Village now, worked for KRLA and booked the concert.
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If John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr weren't screaming those words aloud, they no doubt were thinking them as they sat trapped inside a Lincoln Continental that was smothered fender-to-fender by a frenzied blanket of screaming, crying, pawing, clawing fans who desperately wanted to touch their idols.
It was Sunday night, Aug. 28, 1966, and The Beatles were trying to make a break for it after playing a 27-minute show for 45,000 people at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. It was the first concert booked at the 4-year-old ballpark and, though no one knew it at the time, the second-to-last show The Beatles would ever perform. After another stadium gig the following night at San Francisco's Candlestick Park, their concert career was over.
At the Hollywood Bowl concerts, The Beatles were able to slip out through the guarded backstage exit, Eubanks said. But at Dodger Stadium there was no secure retreat.
The Fab Four were completely out in the open, with 45,000 pairs of eyes trained on their every move.
A 6-foot-tall stage was set up at second base. Behind it was an enclosed tent that housed the Lincoln. As soon as The Beatles played the last note of "Long Tall Sally," they were to race offstage, head for the tent, dive into the car and be whisked out of the stadium through a center field gate before fans could get out of their seats and catch them.
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KRLA disc jockey Bob Eubanks (left) confers with Beatles publicist Tony Barrow at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 1966. This image appeared in the station's weekly newspaper.
KRLA disc jockey Bob Eubanks (left) confers with Beatles publicist Tony Barrow at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 1966. This image appeared in the station's weekly newspaper.
The fliers that radio station KRLA printed up to advertise the 1966 Dodger Stadium show are worth hundreds of dollars today. Dodger pitching great Sandy Koufax is given a gentle jab in the text at the bottom of the flier.
SET LIST
The Beatles played for 27 minutes at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 1966. Here's what they sang.
1. Rock and Roll Music
2. She's a Woman
3. If I Needed Someone
4. Day Tripper
5. Baby's in Black
6. I Feel Fine
7. Yesterday
8. I Wanna Be Your Man
9. Nowhere Man
10. Paperback Writer
11. Long Tall Sally
At the Hollywood Bowl concerts, The Beatles were able to slip out through the guarded backstage exit, Eubanks said. But at Dodger Stadium there was no secure retreat. The Fab Four were completely out in the open, with 45,000 pairs of eyes trained on their every move.
A 6-foot-tall stage was set up at second base. Behind it was an enclosed tent that housed the Lincoln. As soon as The Beatles played the last note of "Long Tall Sally," they were to race offstage, head for the tent, dive into the car and be whisked out of the stadium through a center field gate before fans could get out of their seats and catch them.
Tickets for the Dodger Stadium show were $3, $4.50, $5.50 and $6. In addition to The Beatles, there were four other acts on the bill. Hanging out backstage were David Crosby and Joan Baez.
The Boston-based band The Remains opened the 8 p.m. show, mixing originals with covers like "Hang on Sloopy" and "I'm a Man." Then came Bobby Hebb, who sang his hit "Sunny," followed by the Brian Epstein-managed group The Cyrkle, performing their No. 2 hit "Red Rubber Ball." The Ronettes closed out the opening section. Ninety minutes after the show had begun, it was finally time for the headliners.
"The stadium went wild," wrote 14-year-old Mary Miller in the Sept. 3 edition of the Redlands Daily Facts. "They came leaping out from the dugout directly beneath us. George was first, then John, Ringo and Paul. I remember Paul clapping Ringo on the back as they ran onto the stage. I'll admit that at this point I was 'losing my cool' and getting a little wild."
The Beatles started their set at 9:33 p.m., according to Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas, and they were off the stage by 10. In those 27 minutes they packed in 11 songs, beginning with Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music." McCartney got to belt out "She's a Woman" and croon "Yesterday"; Lennon turned reflective on "Nowhere Man",George: "If I Needed Someone"; and Starr pounded his way through "I Wanna Be Your Man."
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martes, 28 de agosto de 2012
RINGO IS RICHEST RHYTHM ROCKER
Ringo Starr is the richest drummer in the world, says pop culture analyst website Celebrity Net Worth.
Ringo Starr is the richest drummer in the world, says pop culture analyst website Celebrity Net Worth.
His total value is believed to be $300m, making him $50m richer than Phil Collins, $75m better off than Dave Grohl and $100m wealthier than Don Henley.
Those first four spots are taken by stickmen who’ve also fronted bands, with the top-ten rounded out by Lars Ulrich, Charlie Watts, Larry Mullen, Roger Taylor, Joey Kramer and Chad Smith.
Some big names appear to figure surprisingly low down the chart, including Tico Torres (No22), Neil Peart (No26) and Mick Fleetwood (No30).
CNW say: “Most people steer their kids away from learning the drums in favour of less noisy instruments. You may want to reconsider after you find out how rich these musicians became from banging on a drum.”
The site gathered figures from all available public sources including salaries, property values, royalty statements and endorsements, and removed expenses including tax, management fees and living expenses.
CNW's drummer richt list:
1. Ringo Starr (Beatles:( $300m
2. Phil Collins (Genesis:( $250m
3. Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters:( $225m
4. Don Henley (Eagles:( $200m
5. Lars Ulrich (Metallica:( $175m
6. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones:( $160m
7. Larry Mullen (U2:( $150m
8. Roger Taylor (Queen:( $105m
9. Joey Kramer (Aerosmith:( $100m
10. Chad Smith (Rd Hot Chili Peppers, Chickenfoot:( $90m
11. Travis Barker (Blink 182:( $85m
12. Stewart Copeland (Police:( $80m
13. Alex Van Halen (Van Halen:( $75m
13. Nick Mason (Pink Floyd:( $75m
15. Tommy Lee (Motley Crue:( $70m
16. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath:( $65m
17. John Fishman (Phish:( $60m
18. Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews Band:( $55m
19. Rick Allen (Def Leppard:( $50m
20. Tre Cool (Green Day:( $45m
21. Danny Carey (Tool:( $40m
21. Tico Torres (Bon Jovi:( $40m
23. Max Weinberg (E Street Band:( $35m
24. Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead:($30m
25. Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead:( $25m
26. Neil Peart (Rush:( $22m
27. Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters:( $20m
28. Questlove (Roots, Jimmy Fallon:( $16m
29. Steven Adler (Guns n’Roses:( $15m
30. Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac:( $8.5m
Bubbling under – Les Binks (ex-Judas Priest)
2. Phil Collins (Genesis:( $250m
3. Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters:( $225m
4. Don Henley (Eagles:( $200m
5. Lars Ulrich (Metallica:( $175m
6. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones:( $160m
7. Larry Mullen (U2:( $150m
8. Roger Taylor (Queen:( $105m
9. Joey Kramer (Aerosmith:( $100m
10. Chad Smith (Rd Hot Chili Peppers, Chickenfoot:( $90m
11. Travis Barker (Blink 182:( $85m
12. Stewart Copeland (Police:( $80m
13. Alex Van Halen (Van Halen:( $75m
13. Nick Mason (Pink Floyd:( $75m
15. Tommy Lee (Motley Crue:( $70m
16. Bill Ward (Black Sabbath:( $65m
17. John Fishman (Phish:( $60m
18. Carter Beauford (Dave Matthews Band:( $55m
19. Rick Allen (Def Leppard:( $50m
20. Tre Cool (Green Day:( $45m
21. Danny Carey (Tool:( $40m
21. Tico Torres (Bon Jovi:( $40m
23. Max Weinberg (E Street Band:( $35m
24. Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead:($30m
25. Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead:( $25m
26. Neil Peart (Rush:( $22m
27. Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters:( $20m
28. Questlove (Roots, Jimmy Fallon:( $16m
29. Steven Adler (Guns n’Roses:( $15m
30. Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac:( $8.5m
Bubbling under – Les Binks (ex-Judas Priest)
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EPSTEIN PLAY ANNOUNCED IN HOMOTOPIA ARTS FESTIVAL
The producers of the long-awaited new production ‘EPSTEIN - The Man Who Made The Beatles’, have announced that the play is now officially part of Liverpool’s established annual Homotopia international arts festival, which runs throughout November in venues across the city.
Homotopia is an annual festival of local, national and international LGB&T (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) arts & culture and have co-commissioned the writing of the play and also forms part ofHomotopia’s official 2012 programme. ‘EPSTEIN - The Man Who Made The Beatles’ is brought to you by Bill Elms & Jen Heyes Productions Ltd (Tales from Haunted Liverpool, Tales From Charles Dickens), written by Andrew Sherlock (Wall Talks and The Shankly Show) and created and directed by Jen Heyes (Blood Wedding, RLPO Spirit of Christmas and Wall Talks).
Gary Everett, Artistic Director of Homotopia said “Homotopia is thrilled to be involved with the forthcoming EPSTEIN production. Andrew Sherlock has written a very stylish piece and we are proud that it's one of the brand new commissions at this year’s Homotopia festival. Brian Epstein was a true genius who made a significant contribution to popular culture. The play is a timely reminder of this.”
‘EPSTEIN The Man Who Made The Beatles’ is the opening highlight of the newly refurbished 380 seatEpstein Theatre (formerly The Neptune) named after Brian and will raise the curtain from 15 Nov – 1 Dec 2012. The play is also part of the official programme of Liverpool’s 50th Anniversary of The Beatles.
Bill Elms, Co-Producer of Epstein said “Jen and I are grateful to Gary and the Homotopia team for co-commissioning the writing of the production, Gary has been enthusiastic and supported the creation of the project from the early idea stages many years ago, we are proud that the production is part of this ever-growing LGB&T arts festival.”
The two-hander multi-media play charts Brian Epstein’s adult life and illustrious career from his drama school days to managing the world’s biggest pop group. Brian’s short life was crammed with success and controversy; an intelligent man whose presence, taste, vision and passion left a lifelong impact on the world. Born in Liverpool in 1934 to Jewish descent and openly homosexual, he spent his early adult life working for the family business NEMS (North End Music Stores), between being drafted into the Royal Army Service Corps and moving to London to joining RADA and living a more openly gay life, he returned to Liverpool to manage the new NEMS city centre music store making it one of the biggest in the North. Not long after was the historic lunchtime visit to the famous Cavern Club to hear four Liverpool lads perform and the rest was history. Brian died in 1967 of an accidental overdose at the age of 32.
Brian Epstein was best known as a music entrepreneur and legendary manager of The Beatles and was the person responsible for their rise to mega-stardom all over the world. He also managed other popular artists such as Gerry & The Pacemakers, Billy J Kramer, The Foremost, The Dakotas and Cilla Black. EPSTEINThe Play is sponsored by Gregory Abrams Davidson LLP Solicitors (Mathew Street and Penny Lane).The production partners: The Cavern, The Beatles Story, Hard Days Night Hotel, Magical Mystery Tour, Fab Cabs Beatles Tours, Annexe Inc and Liverpool Echo.
EPSTEIN the Play
The Epstein Theatre
Hanover Street, Liverpool, L1 3DY
Thu 15 November – Sat 1 December 2012
Preview Performances: 15-17 November 2012
Thu and Sat Matinees: 2.30pm | Mon – Sat Evenings: 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: £10-£24 (Concessions Available)
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