They first took the clubs by storm with their gay club anthems such as Macho Man and Fire Island.

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The album, Wrestlemania, an amalgam of dance tracks sung by the likes of The Undertaker and Randy (Macho Man) Savage, was released in Britain in 1993 and sold 1.5 million copies.

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The word heterosexual refers to a man who takes the active role, with either women or men, and usually acts macho too.

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