The tabloid-worthy events centered on a musician named Varg Vikernes, of the one-man band Burzum, who encouraged and participated in the burning of churches.

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Giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press standards in 2011, former deputy commissioner Francis Aldhouse suggested the watchdog had effectively been a "one-man band" in the past, with the commissioner deciding which matters to pursue.

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Until then, he'll happily remain a one-man traveling band, loudly singing the praises of the bunt in earshot of every opposing manager he meets.

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But by the time In Chains was recorded in 2008 as the final EP in a three part series, Skalsky's one-man band had evolved into a quartet based in Brooklyn.

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On the Palestinian side, Mr Arafat, an old revolutionary leader turned one-man-band politician, is also unpopular with his own people.

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Indeed, PiS looks like a one-man band, and Mr Kaczynski insists that foul play was behind the plane crash in Russia that two years ago killed his brother Lech, then Poland's president. (He still dresses in mourning.) Fans lap up the conspiracy theories, but other Poles find such talk ridiculous.

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