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Here is your opportunity to put faces to the names and voices or just to see how beautiful we all are.
Each member of our dedicated team, from the Customer Relations Team through to the Managing Director can be found right here.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to Contact Us
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Customer Relations and Sales Team
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full name: Sophie Ashley
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position: Senior Administrator of Customer Relations
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home town: Sleaford Lincolnshire
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favourite artist: David Bowie | Hard-Fi
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favourite album: Hanoi Rocks 'Million Miles Away'
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full name: Daniel Lee Jobson
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position: Telephone Sales & Customer Relations
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home town: Bexleyheath
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what i like Metallica, S.O.A.D, Coheed and Cambria, Tool, Radiohead, Fightstar, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley, Green Carnation, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, Opeth, Diamond Head, any thing Progressive or rock related really. Westerns, Horror Flicks, the Godfather films (yes, even no 3!), any Stephen king books, original thinkers, playing Guitar (electric and acoustic), Video games and last but not least……..my girlfriend Hannah!
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what i don't: Any form of Rap!(it’s not music!!!!!!), Indie pretty boys who think they are great songwriters!(Razorlight!), Rude or arrogant people, American crime Dramas.
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full name: Darren Trout
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position: Telephone Sales & Customer Relations
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home town: Rochester
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favourite artist: Jimi Hendrix | Smashing Pumpkins | Evanescence
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favourite album: Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill'
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full name: Dave Joyce
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position: Responsible for the storage & management of all our stock
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home town: Gravesend
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what i like Movies, most music genres particularly Gospel, Elvis Presley, holidays in the sun and reading books by Dwight L Moody, Evan Roberts, John & Charles Wesley, Charles Finney, George Whitefield, Isaac Watts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth to name but a few. |
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what i don't: Spaghetti, rice pudding, people who exceed the driving limit on roads (they are there for a reason) and hay fever.
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full name: Matt Bowden
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position: Telephone Sales
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home town: Gravesend
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what i like Oh Crumbs - all sorts really, but particular faves include Kenickie, Peter Gabriel, Stan Getz, The Who, Grover Washington Jnr, Maximo Park, Badly Drawn Boy, David Bowie...
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what i don't: Trying to compile a shortlist of my favourite artists...
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full name: Lee Chase
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position: Assisting with the storage of our stock and processing orders
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Foo Fighters
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favourite album: Foo Fighters 'The Colour and the Shape'
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full name: Lord Ricardo of Bass bin
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position: Product photographer/image engineer
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home town: Gravesend
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what i like Bass, Beer, Boobs |
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what i don't: Plastic/fake people, Top 40, Government, Presumption
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full name: Roy Ford
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position: Telephone Sales & Customer Relations
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | Wasp | The Macc Lads
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favourite album: Iron Maiden 'Iron Maiden' | Wasp 'The Headless Chicken'
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full name: Susan Morrell
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position: Assists the Directors & oversees accounts
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home town: Dartford
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what i like The Delays, The Beatles, Rolling Stones
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what i don't: I dislike William Hung (ask Simon)
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invoice & despatch team
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full name: Cheryl Lees
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position: Head of Product Distribution
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home town: Kent
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favourite artist: Kylie Minogue | Madonna
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favourite album: Phil Collins 'Hits'
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purchasing & stock addition team
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full name: Jean-Paul Cartwright
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | The Darkness | Godsmack
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favourite album: Alter Bridge 'One Day Remains' | Iron Maiden 'Number Of The Beast'
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full name: Rob Smith
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Hartley A.K.A The Sticks
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favourite artist: This Will Destroy You | Oceansize | Explosions In The Sky
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favourite album: This Will Destroy You – 'Young Mountain' | Mogwai – 'Mr Beast'
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full name: Rich Wilson
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Harlow
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favourite artist: Jazz/Afro/Brazilian, Cardiacs, Suburban Base Records for turning me into an evil
vinyl addict
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favourite album: Miles Davis 'Kind Of Blue' |
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full name: Laura Stoneman
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position: Responsible for the adding, ordering and processing of new release product
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what i like Guillemots (quite obv), Editors, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Gigs, the butterflies I get when going to gigs, Will Ferrell movies, chick flicks, chick lit books, travelling, food that is sweet, my family & friends.
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what i don't: People who are rude & spiteful, people who slate Guillemots for the most idiotic of reasons or despite having never listened to their albums or met them and horror movies.
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full name: Mark Evetts
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position: Specialises in buying our 80's & 90's Indie, Punk & New Wave
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home town: Croydon
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what i like Punk Rock, Association Football, Fergus the Ferret, Profiteroles.
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what i don't: Whiney female vocalists, motor 'sport', America.
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full name: Matt Lambert
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position: Stock Addition
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home town: Cheriton Folkestone
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what i like Garage psych folk rock 65-70, Proto punk 73-76, Punk 76-78, Post punk 77-83
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what i don't: Stupid rock [inc hair metal, stadium tosh and guitar wank], Mod revival [ridiculous!!], Rap/hip hop/whatever, Nu-anything, What passes for punk these days
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full name: Peter Fenton
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position: Our North American representative, managing our buying in the USA and Canada
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home town: San Francisco
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what i like Morten, Falco, Madonna, Neil & Chris, Kylie, Mylčne, Claudia & Paul, Ann & Nancy, Dame Shirley, Ofra… and MANY more.
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what i don't: Misogynists, Homophobes, Egotists, Narcissists, The Ignoble, The Ungrateful, and The Ignorant.
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full name: Richard Austin
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position: A member of our buying team and processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Betelgeuse 5
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favourite artist: Tori Amos | Van der Graaf Generator | Ani Di Franco
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favourite album: The Sound 'From The Lions Mouth' | Ozric Tentacles 'Erpland'
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full name: Robin Salazar
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position: Our South American representative, managing our buying in Mexico, Brazil & beyond...
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home town: Mexico City
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favourite artist: Depeche Mode | The Cure
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favourite album: Camouflage 'Voices & Images' | The Cure 'Seventeen Seconds'
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full name: Sharon Sexton
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Kent
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what i like The Stranglers, Ash, Muse, Manics, travel, pandas and Art Deco
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what i don't: Whistling, Jazz, beards, feet
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full name: Stephen Borkowski
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position: Frequently out on the road in search of rarities from the 60's to the 2000's
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home town: Chatham
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what i like Beatles, Queen, Stones, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi plus lots of guitar Rock/Blues like SRV, Jonny Lang & Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stax & Atlantic 60's soul/RnB & lots of guilty pleasures!
Movies - Almost anything, but favourites include The Blues Brothers & Animal House plus nostagic 80's movies as well as the usual Star Wars/Die Hard/Indiana Jones/Lord Of The Rings - but doesn't eveyone like those?
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what i don't: Car Crash Jazz that sounds like someone falling over a drumkit! Horrible! Oh and Frank Zappa (Sorry Jules & Richard) Opera & Country & Western a no no too.
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full name: Yasuhiko Yashiki
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position: Our Japanese representative, managing our buying throughout Japan & beyond...
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home town: Hiroshima City
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what i like The Dance Of Death by Scaramanga Six, Bipolar Diversion by Jackdaw4 in the meantime. |
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what i don't An outrageous Jap ebayers without having paid a tax from sales once and also live without paying a rent by an allowance from their parent.
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full name: Simon Wright
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position: Oversees the acquisition & promotion of all new domestic releases and imported product
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home town: Maidstone
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favourite artist: Radiohead | DJ Shadow | Pearl Jam
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favourite album: DJ Shadow 'Endtroducing' | Pearl Jam 'Vs' | Radiohead 'OK Computer'| UNKLE 'Psyence Fiction'
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IT (the geeks)
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full name: Julia Nicholas
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position: IT Manager
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what i like Sex and shoes and DnB...
my girl Siân, shoes, Drum n Bass, good manners, shoes, Quentin Tarrantino (artistiscally not physically, eww!), Family Guy, bodies, shoes, clean sheets, erotic art (photo left courtesy of my photography teacher, the genuis that is Chris Bell), Amsterdam
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what i don't: rudeness, Crocs, Uggs (u-g-l-y you ain't got no alibi..), Jazz (the type where 10 people are playing different tunes), RnB videos, men with hairy backs
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full name: Gary Breeze
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position: Senior Software Developer
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home town: eil Towers
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what i like sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above |
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what i don't: no sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above
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full name: John Thomson
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position: Responsible for PC and Network support
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home town: Maidstone
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favourite artist: Fleetwood Mac
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favourite album: Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours'
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full name: Mike Towers
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position: Senior Software Developer
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home town: Ashford
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favourite artist: Oasis | Meat Loaf
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favourite album: Oasis 'Heathen Chemistry' | Meat Loaf 'Bat Out Of Hell'
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management team
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full name: Cathryn Draper
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position: Company Director and oversees day to day management.
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home town: Kent
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what i like Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Faithless Outrospective. Most Porsche 911's (except silver ones - but the odd 356 Speedster in any colour is very nice). Cafe Del Mar Volume 9 |
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what i don't: Frank Zappa - he makes my eardrums want to burst (Sorry Richard). drum n bass - someone tell me where the rhythm is?
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full name: Julian Thomas
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position: Co-Founder & Company Director
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home town: The Dark Side Of The Moon
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what i like gilmour, lemmy, jazz, beans on toast, yorkshire tea, ch. palmer, real ale, english pubs, motor racing, maserati, morris minor, shotguns, japan, murakami
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what i don't: anything idol, big brother, TV soaps, beetroot, black coffee, alcopops, stella, english pubs abroad, football, austin princess, knives, spain, mills & boon
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full name: Robert Croydon
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position: Co-Founder and Managing Director
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home town: Longfield
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favourite music place: Sunday afternoon on the Terrace at Space, Ibiza
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favourite album: Mylo 'Destoy Rock And Roll' | Simon and Garfunkel 'Best Of'
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