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Going To America Increased The Build Up On Me, Especially As The War Was Going On There. In A Way We'd Turned Out To Be A Trojan Horse. The 'fab Four' Moved Right To The Top And Then Sang About Drugs And Sex And Then I Got Into More And More Heavy Stuff And That's When They Started Dropping Us.

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Going To America Increased The Build Up On Me, Especially As The War Was Going On There. In A Way We'd Turned Out To Be A Trojan Horse. The 'fab Four' Moved Right To The Top And Then Sang About Drugs And Sex And Then I Got Into More And More Heavy Stuff And That's When They Started Dropping Us.

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All Music Is Rehash. There Are Only A Few Notes. Just Variations On A Theme. Try To Tell The Kids In The Seventies Who Were Screaming To The Bee Gees That Their Music Was Just The Beatles Redone. There Is Nothing Wrong With The Bee Gees.

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I Don't Want To Grow Up But I'm Sick Of Not Growing Up - That Way. I'll Find A Different Way Of Not Growing Up. There's A Better Way Of Doing It Than Torturing Your Body.

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