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You sometimes figure you know exactly how it’s going to go. The artist has been around a while, is a legend – of sorts – or possibly a has-been (and usually it depends who you ask) and you know that it’ll be nice enough, fans’ll be happy, but not especially great; not really worthy as such. And then sometimes it ends up being kinda close to embarrassing…
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