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METALLICA: thirty years d' apocalypse (1st part)
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Publishing date : 3/27/12
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Author : metalmp
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METALLICA…
Evoquer METALLICA , this is (almost as) to review three decades of memories. Discovery of Kill ‘Em Allthanks to my friend Cyril that programed it by way of awakening morning the together Parisian consequences to Lulu that I did not not yet listen (I know even if it attracts me, then…), the Four Horsemen regulated rhythmically a big party of my daily one, in any case, even in the middle of the years 90, without never, nevertheless, I doing not lose them completely view. And even if I preserve memories a tens (to have seen Cliff live by two times, almost to have been able be met them and to photograph them in February 1987 to the Zénith of Paris while I collaborated in the fanzine Mercenaire – no, Denis, I do not thank you for this spleen! But I not some want you. Or more… - to have awaited the go out ofLoad while I was located to the WORE…), they are nevertheless not rather numerous to evoke a long saga of thirty years. Then I would be anxious the facts. Nothing that to the facts for that justice here is returned to these riders of the apocalypse.
necessarily Steps always exemplary, METALLICA nevertheless succeeded in hoist itself higher than the panthéon of the Metal : become a true world-wide institution, the founded group in 1982 by Lars ULRICH and James HETFIELD strength aujourd’hui (almost) all to allow itself. This privilege, it is the one reserved to these elected officials who knew to brave the years, the decades and, although become multimillionnaires, the commerce to excessiveness. ForMETALLICA, in his exuberance, knew to remain close of its fans. As much as possible, in any case, as it the again recently proved. But before, let's set off again in the past, the one that constructed this modern legend, this living monster...
One could date the origins of METALLICA to December 26 1963, dates back to the birth of Lars ULRICH close to Copenhagen to Denmark.
Or earlier, even, to August 3 1963, dates back to the first cry ofJames HETFIELD in the suburbs of Los Angeles
But a group nait later, when the common passion does to meet those that some will become the thinking heads.
AS the age of 10 years, Lars accompanies his father, professional tennis player, to a concert of DEEP PURPLE. Tonight there, a true passion nait. The young one Lars, between two courses of tennis, inquires itself last gone out Rock, and Rock Hard. His grandmother offers him even, in 1977, his first kit of battery. But, in order him to give all its luck and to allow him to progress to the tennis, his family to the big suit emigrates in 1979 to the WORE and installs itself to Newport Beach, in California, so that Lars professionalizes themselves, as his father, in the tennis. But nothing seems to be able to start his passion for the Metal…
while James HETFIELD cheek with LEATHER CHARMS, Lars ULRICH sees themselves nonsuit of the post of drummer for which it auditioned in April 1981. "Not rather good", indeed "too bad" is the impression that it leaves after his benefit... It nevertheless will come back to the load after taking courses and, especially, after passing the summer in England where it follows DIAMOND HEAD and secures itself friendship with them.Lars income of this stay the suitcases a lot of local discovered. Big voucher Metal that one finds only with difficulty to the WORE. Too direct, too crade, too... punk.
AS Los Angeles, his friend Brian SLAGEL have just climb his label, Metal Blade Records. It envisions to publish a compilation and proposes to Lars of there to figure in the only condition that the latter proposes him a group. The young one and determined drummer contacts then again James HETFIELD and proposes him to launch itself with him in the adventure. The guitarist, tempted by timeliness decides that it is time to launch his career. They recruit the guitarist Lloyd GRANT that does the avenues and come within the formation and finalizesHit The Lights , the song that will figure on ladite compilation.
Simultaneously, Ron QUINTINA, an animated friend of the same passion, asks counsel to Lars to find a name for the fanzine that it decided to create. A fanzine devoted to the Metal flourishing one. Some ideas keep the attention of the drummer that convainc Ron to preserve Metal Mania rather than Metallica, that Lars "subtilise" for his profit. His group will name itself therefore METALLICA. Another Ron, McGOVNEY, companion of James HETFIELD within LEATHER CHARM, rejoins METALLICA in December 1981 to the post of bass player. The thus formed group can therefore to be presented to Brian SLAGEL, that keepsHit The Lights for his compilation.
Dave MUSTAINE replies to an announcement and upright, after hearing, METALLICA beginnings 1982. The pushed back exit of the compilation Metal Massacrepermit to MUSTAINE to add some soli to the title. March 14, the quartet gives his first concert to theRadio City of Anaheim, in suburbs of Los Angeles then records a démo (that understands the version of Hit The Lights that paraitra on the compilation) in order to unhook the first party of the English of SAXON that come to defend Denim And Leather to the mythical one Whisky A GoGo the 27 and March 28. Luck itself in mèle, METALLICA not being the first choice ofSAXON. But the withheld group not being able to play, it is the quartet that is called for the rescousse.
After attempting – a week during – the formula to 5, James concentrating on the song, and given under a form or another several concerts, METALLICA view at last its rewarded efforts with the exit, in June 82, of Metal Massacre, meeting compilation, with METALLICA, of others young irritated and promising formations BLACK'N'BLUE, BITCH orMALICE.
In The month of July, the group records his third démo.No Life ‘Til Leather content 7 of the titles that will figure on the first album of the group and will be the object of numerous exchanges on the market of the "tape trading ".
The end of the year is filled with tensions, and MUSTAINE sees themselves even ousted of the group for a week. At the end of the months of October, while it attends the given concert to the Troubadour, other club of L.A., by the group of San Francisco TRAUMA, Brian SLAGEL remark the bass player and envisions to let this formation figure on a future "volume 2" of his compilation. When Lars ULRICHis part of its doubts on the subject of the implication of McGOVNEY within METALLICA, SLAGEL talks about him Cliff BURTON. The two men meet after a concert of TRAUMA to theWhisky , but the bass player adamantly refuses to leave his group. So worse…
METALLICA goes to San Francisco in order there to give his first concert in poster head, November 29 1982, to the Old Waldorf. The first party is EXODUS, of which the one of the guitarists names themselves Kirk HAMMETT. But at present, Lars ULRICH some is convinced, it is necessary to change bass player… A forces to pester it, Cliff BURTON end up to yield to the ask of HETFIELD and ULRICH. But it puts its conditions to rejoin METALLICA, the most important one being than METALLICA leaves Los Angeles, poser city, to rejoin San Francisco. The bass player obtains gain of cause and upright officially METALLICA after a given concert December 28 1982. The style of BURTON denotes in fact completely of what one finds to L.A. : the sly devil as much is fascinated by the classical music that by the insolence of the MISFITS, loves the films of horror and the literature of H.P. LOVECRAFT, and it seems to have gone out of the hippie years with its pants to paws d'éléphant..
METALLICA pose officially its suitcases and flight put to SF February 12 1983. While the group lives together, Dave MUSTAINE decides to install itself with the grandmother of the road to manage. In March, METALLLICA records a new démo two titles. Whiplash and No Remorse are the first recordings with Cliff BURTON… and the last ones withDave MUSTAINE.
Ron QUINTINA, not meanspirited for a round one that Lars pricked him the name of Metallica , puts the quartet in relation with a New York correspondent,Johnny Z( John ZAZULA), record dealer underground, that proves itself interested by the music of the group and wishes to see them to play on NYC. METALLICA doing not have necessary money to do the trip, the aforementioned Johnny Ztheir envoy 1500 dollars for that the four can do the movement of SF to NYC in April. The trip in van happens not well. Each takes turns to the flying one but Dave MUSTAINE is constantly drunk, even when it must drive.
Arrivals to New York, the four are accommodated by the ZAZULA and sell their démo No Life ‘Til Leather to finance the housing expenses. A concert is given in company of VANDENBERG and of VENOM April 9 to the L’amour's, a renowned club of the neighborhood of Brooklyn. This same evening, James, Lars and Cliff decide that the adventure with Dave must stop. They contactKirk HAMMETT, guitarist of EXODUS, so that it rejoins them and, while the latter arrival on New York, the 11, James announcement toDave sounds dismissal and gives him a return ticket to San Francisco by bus.
Kirk works of pulls out foot to integrate the catalog of METALLICA with that it gives his first concert April 16, in opening of THE RODS, to the Showplace of New York. Then, the quartet records his first album, financed by the ZAZULA that invest some 15,000 dollars in this small matter. METALLICA wants to entitle his album Metal Up Your Ass, but Johnny Z. some dissuades them deducing that the album will not be, with a similar title, never distributed. Lars, already wearied speaks musical business, proposes then Kill ‘Em All , and the album adorned under this title in the month of July 1983 to the WORE.
Kill ‘Em Allwill become soon an angular rock of the Heavy Metal. Brutal from one end to the other, METALLICA proposes a radically different music of this to what the young Americans are accustomed. What this be at the level of their appearance – four young buttons in perforated John and crades – or of their music – direct, violent, saturated and without concession – METALLICA pose the new basis of a kind. And frightful. Pieces as Seek And Destroy, Hit The Lights, Jump In The Fire, The Four Horsemen, Whiplash or again the solo of low Anesthesia-(Pulling Teeth), if they will become true classics that will revolutionize the kind, intrigue (to the better, and frighten, to the worse one) a thirsty youth of decibels. Drawing his inspiration to the heart of the designated movement as the NWOBHM, big passion of Lars ULRICH, METALLICA has the intelligence to associate with speed and the violence of VENOM or MOTORHEAD sounds approaches mélodique, drawn with DIAMOND HEAD, SAXON or IRON MAIDEN, a body that mixes a remarkable precision of execution to a brothel punkisant totally controlled. A radical music and to the opposed of what proposes MTV with permed pop videos of hardos and of dressed pastes… all that abhor Lars & Co.
The group embarks itself then in an American turn in company of the furious English of RAVEN that have just go out All For One . TheKill ‘Em All For One Tour beginner July 27 toNew Brunswick ( New Jersey) and will finish December 18, toCleveland, in theOhio.
1984 is the year of all the challenges. METALLICA must come to trample some European boards in company, among others, of VENOM. The public of the old continent is more receptive, his attitude more in agreement and his ear already done more get used to the musical style than proposes METALLICA. But any material sound is flown just before that the quartet does not take off for this adventure. Lars succeeds negotiating the housing of the equipment to London, authorizing fact held it of this turn that starts up to Zurich (Swiss) February 3 and comes to an end the 12 to the Belgian festival of Poperinge. The four go as early as the next day to Denmark, in order to take the temperature of the studioSweet Silence of Copenhagen and there to prepare their second album. Geographic location is important, symbolic even, for Lars that renews thus with its origins, on one hand, but can record on the continent of which number of groups did and still cause to vibrate him and its companions.
THE recording starts up in the month of March 84 under the trowel of the producer Flemming RASMUSSEN. During the months, the group will go to London to play Marquee to two returns, the 14 and March 27. But a person is part of its worries: John ZAZULAthat sees the recording to last… and his past budget of 20,000 to 30,000 dollars. Recording sessions come to an end in the month of May, then the group invests again the European scenes, of which 5 German and Dutch dates TWISTED SISTER that will follow the Heavy Sound festival of Poperinge that is held June 10 in front of 15,000 come spectators to applaud MOTORHEAD, MERCIFUL FATE, BARON ROJO or again H-BOMB.
After approaching by various organizations, METALLICA sign a contract of management with Q Prime . The terrible children henceforth will be taken charge of by Peter MENSCH andCliff BURNSTEIN, just before that not sort, in July, Wrinkles The Lightning. Duet loads itself already of the matters of groups of the extent of ACDC, DEF LEPPARD,Ted NUGENT…
This second albums sees METALLICA to do a step of giant. If brutality remains the guiding idea, the sound concocted by RASMUSSEN placement forward all the technical qualities of this group to party. It is simple: precision is surgical. Nevertheless, and in contrast to what one would be attempted to believe, the feeling dominates. The result translates itself by powerful and epic pieces of the new epics of a kind that name themselves Creeping Death, For Whom The Bell Tolls, the most violent Fight Fire With Fire, Ride The Lightning, or the long and instrumental majesticThe Call Of Ktulu. The group is, of more, succeeded in refine texts that treat gravely as varied themes as the death penalty ( Ride The Lightning) or the religion (the history of Pharaoh and Moses and the seven wounds of Egypt onCreeping Death) or, all simply, human vindictive stupidity ( Fight Fire With Fire). The body is so compact and enticing that the album will remain an almost entire year (50 weeks) in theBillboard Americans!
After marking the spirits at the time of his passage to the Breaking Sound Festival of Paris – to the Bourget, more precisely (duex days during which these march not less than Ozzy OSBOURNE, DIO, BLUE OYSTER CULT, SORTILEGE, HIGH POWER, DAYTONA, HEAVY PETTIN'...) August 29, METALLICA returns in its earths to attend his triumph. The signature with Elektra records opens him certainly doors… in any case, the label already is tempted by the 75,000 copies ofRide The Lightning that flowed themselves in scarcely two months on the American territory…
METALLICA knowledge nevertheless that it has all for quickly to drop the European public, more naturally disposed to accept this kind of extreme music than besides Atlantic. The group returns for a series together on the old continent, of which a beautiful French turned one of eight dates, before going in Germany, in Scandinavia and in England.
AS pains the year 1985 she starts up that METALLICA sets off again to reheat the asphalt for a length of three months (the turn will finish at Portland, Oregon, March 19). As early as the 10, the group plays in company ofW.A.S.P (that will leave the current turn February because of relations… difficult) and ofARMOURED SAINT (that will remain thanks to relations.. warm).
After some weeks of rest, METALLICA crossing again the Atlantic in order to participate in the essential English festival Monters Of Rock of Castle Donington. It there figures as a sort of ovni. Only group of his category to the poster, METALLICA cheek with RATT, MAGNUM, MARILLION, BON JOVI and ZZ TOP and wins a franc and lively success. After the full box, the quartet participates in several festivals of which, of return to the house, the Day On The Green of Oakland with RATT, VICTORY, Y&T, Yngwie MALMSTEEN and SCORPIONS. There again, the styles mix themselves étonamment andMETALLICA, with his natural brutality, itself mark-down, reaching thus to attract again fans.
in order to give birth to the successor of Ride The Lightning, METALLICA returns in September 85 to the Sweet Silence of Copenhagen and records a new time under the direction ofFlemming RASMUSSEN. The recording comes to an end mi December, the four agreing some days of rest for the period of the parties.
The new year starts up (the 1st January, therefore, of 1986 this time… thank you for to follow!) with a given concert toSan Francisco in company of EXODUS and METAL CHURCH, concert to which one participates equally Dave MUSTAINE before Lars does not fly away itself for Europe in order there to assure the promotion of Master Of Puppets that there will be marketed March 7, nevertheless thatMichael WAGENER finalizes the mastering of the album.
as early as his go out, this new ravages marks by a maturity and a professionalism that not start at all the spirit Thrash of the beginnings. Using the same organization in the layout of the pieces that on Ride The Ligntining (a title runs and violent opens the totaling album eight titles of which an instrumental one),Master Of Puppets reveals themselves well quickly a monster of effectiveness. Starting up on the wheel hats ( Battery), METALLICA proposes long pieces returns inside that alternate execution speed, melody and brutality, the while benefitting from an offering sound to every instrument his just place. The approached themes continue to be serious (the mastery of the narcotics – Master Of Puppets– the idiocy of the war – Disposable Heroes – or religion – Leper Messiah…). In some months,Master Of Puppets becomes disc of now to the WORE while surpassing the 500,000 sales.
A new turned one starts up, in opening of the living myth Ozzy OSBOURNE, in the Kansas, to Wichita, March 27. American journey continues up to June 1986. In any case, the first party of this turn. For the group will do a short escapade in Europe in order there to sit his statute.
The European turn starts up in Finland July 5 and METALLICA return (already!) to the WORE after the Danish concert of the 6, there turns for two weeks beforeJames, big fan of board to roulettes, bump a wall and breaks itself the wrist July 26… The foreseen concert to Evansville (Indiana) evenings even is canceled, but the turn continues. James is replaced to the guitar by John MARSHALL, roadie and friend of Kirk HAMMETT of long date, and, accessorily, guitarist of METAL CHRURCH, while it himself "satisfies" to sing. The American turn finishes August 3 in Virginia and METALLICA gets ready for its concerts on the old continent. The turn there begins, toCardiff, England, September 10, always in the form of a quintette and with the moshers new yorkais ofANTHRAX in opening.
The United Kingdom yields under the blows of snouts of a group to the better one of his form that, after 10 dates goes in Scandinavia. METALLICA cheek to Lund the 24, the next day to Oslo and James HETFIELD return the guitar the 26 toStockholm. After the concert, the group sets off again on the road in tour bus. In the morning of the 27, close to the Danish city of Ljungby, the bus slips on a plate of verglas (it seems), slips and returns itself, éjectant its passengers that, shocked by this brutal awakening, attempt to rediscover their spirits. They go count, then, that one of the their remained jammed under the bus. The body without life of Cliff BURTON is rediscovered crushed. The remainder of the turn from that time naturally is canceled, and METALLICA envisions seriously to stop. Nevertheless, it is with the conviction to pay homage to his defunct bass player who the group continues and puts back itself quickly to the encouraged work so by his management that by the parents of Cliff.
The research of a new member begins and METALLICA fine announcement October to have done his choice, and upright the bass player of FLOTSAM & JETSAM, Jason NEWSTED, in the team. From that time, the painfully reconstructed quartet is involved itself in the continuation of his turn while starting with Japan, and continues, in December, by the United States and Canada.
Europes is again invested, with METAL CHURCH (and ANTHRAX on certain dates), as early as January 87. METALLICA will play, until February 13, in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden… and imposes as an irreproachable group on scene.Jason high pass the hand, with the public in all the cases, the test of the scene.
Salts childlike if it is some, James HETFIELD, of return to the house, has a new accident of skateboard. This time, it is the arm that it breaks. It is obliged to carry a peg in order to consolidate this too solicited member.James HETFIELD will have in the future done a choice: the skate or his musical career… One connait the continuation.
During the convalescence of his frontman, METALLICA climbs his own studio of repetitions. The re-education of James finishes in June and the group records in the scarcely space a week The $5.98 Ep - Garage Days, composed from returns. But more than go out a product for his label, this Ep is a sort of test vinylique for Jason NEWSTED.
The riders of the apocalypse are a new invited time to play Monsters Of Rock August 22. The poster is all so surprising since the name of METALLICA there mixes with those of CINDERELLA, W.A.S.P, DIO orBON JOVI. Fortunately, a representing other of the extreme scene is present, the pals moshers New York of ANTHRAX. Of more, the Monsters decline themselves henceforth in different European countries, andMETALLICA is at the poster every time.
In October, METALLICA announcement the next exit of a video documentary and betrays thus his engagement of long one date back to not to use this means of communication to the balance of MTV. For of the their beginnings, Lars ULRICH and James HETFIELD preferred to encourage their fans to pirate, to record, to photograph or to film their benefits, prétextant that the success, a group must obtain it live, facing his public. Deducing also, especially, that the utilsation of the commercial video broadcast in buckle on MTV guaranteed one anything else only a beautiful increase of the sales of an album. And there, METALLICA announcement to market a video? ! ? Safe that Cliff ‘Em All has only for objective to pay homage toCliff BURTON by the bias of the video recordings pirates that the fans were able to turn with the passing of the years. The document adorned in November 1987 and if the quality (sonorous or visual) has nothing professional, the homage unanimously is greeted so by the critic that by the fans that do this document an immense commercial success.
Weapon of new compositions, METALLICA enters in studio, not to Copenhagen but to Los Angeles. This time, RASMUSSEN too is occupied to be able to liberate itself before the months of January 88 and METALLICA engages Mike CLINCK, that recently has just finished to work on a certain one Appetite For Destruction, to supervise the production. The year finishes, and, as foreseen,Flemming RASMUSSEN rejoined the team to finalize, some months during, the work on this new opus.
METALLICA launches themselves in a new turned one that begins the 27, 28 and May 29 by three Monsters Of Rock Americans. This meets edition VAN HALEN, DOKKEN, SCORPIONS and KINGDOM COME . Then, the turn continues while the go out of the album, foreseen in July, is pushed back.
… And Justice For Alladorned at last in September 1988, preceded, August 23, of a first extracted one: Harvester Of Sorrow. September 17, is nine days scarcely after his exit, Justice finds a 4th beautiful position in the charts English. The album takes advantage of the new technologies that proposes the era, and adorned in all the imaginable supports: doubles vinyle, cassette and CD. The work is long (more of an hour) and surprises by his cold, indeed icy side. The low one of Jason NESWTEDis surprisingly leaves, as obliterated, while the pieces, epic and almost progressive – of which all safe two surpass the 6' - demand the presence on this part rhythmic. It is there only one of the aspects of the "new" METALLICA that subtly explores new musical possibilities, often less centered on speed. This new departure of the quartet is equally marked by broadcasting, as early as September, very first illustrating commercial video One, song inspired by the film Johnny got his gun – Johnny s’en va-t-en guerre.
Without surprise, henceforth it is the routine, METALLICA sets off again a new time to criss-cross Europe and launches his turn by a concert to Budapest September 11, before returning to the WORE in December where it receives are very first disc of rewarding platinum more of a million sold copies of … And Justice For All that attains the 24th place of the Billboard. METALLICA, from that time, begins becoming aware of the impact that can have the broadcasting on MTV of a simple video. The mnde changes, the people also.
Surfing one on his success, METALLICA, always in turned to the WORE, is nominated to the Grammy Awards in the category "better group of Metal ". The quartet begins frequenting the notable ones but sees, the 22 février1989 rewards it him to escape the profit of JETHRO TULL.
The turn continues, inducing METALLICA further that never: the new maitres of theMetal world-wide one discover thus the New Zélande, Australia, the Japan before coming back to the WORE for there to assure a summer turn, then go to Brazil and in Argentina after canceling their European coming. But the group promises of there to return. At present, it is time to think to supply the hunger of the fans, more and more numerous, with a new album. To conceive, and to record…
Nevertheless, before returning in studio, METALLICA announcement the date back to an European turned mini. The old continent is therefore invested during the months of May 1990. England, Germany, Holland, France will have the honors of some rare concerts beforeMETALLICA does not fly away itself again for the WORE and Canada.
In less than a decade, Lars ULRICH and James HETFIELD succeeded in impose METALLICA, an immature group composite of dirty irresponsible momes, noisy hargneux and far from being sex symbols, alongside JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN , BLACK SABBATH or MOTORHEAD, as a major formation of the world of the Heavy Metal. The years 80, nevertheless, were only a beginning... METALLICA will not have of stop, during the course of the years to come, to impose as The group of Metal, THE world-wide reference.
Rediscover soon, only on www.metal-integral.com, the second and last party of this exceptional adventure, years 90 to our days
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METAL MASSACRES (1982)
METAL MASSACRES (1982)
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KILL ' EM ALL (1983)
KILL ' EM ALL (1983)
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WRINKLE THE LIGHTNING (1984)
WRINKLE THE LIGHTNING (1984)
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MASTER OFF PUPPETS (1986)
MASTER OFF PUPPETS (1986)
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… AND JUSTICE FOR ALL & 1988)
… AND JUSTICE FOR ALL & 1988)
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Paris Le Bourget - August 29, 1984
Paris Le Bourget - August 29, 1984
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Paris Spaces Balard, Nov 18, 1984 (with Tank and Girlschool)
Paris Spaces Balard, Nov 18, 1984 (with Tank and Girlschool)
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Paris, the Zenith, February 5, 1986 (with Antharx and Metal Church)
Paris, the Zenith, February 5, 1986 (with Antharx and Metal Church)
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Paris, POPB on May 21, 1990
Paris, POPB on May 21, 1990
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Cliff ' EM all (VHS 1987)
Cliff ' EM all (VHS 1987)
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2 off one (VHS 1989)
2 off one (VHS 1989)
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