In 2001, it revealed its higher ambitions by celebrating Lynyrd Skynyrd in words and music on a double-album called Southern Rock Opera.

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In other words, the decline of bricks-and-mortar shops selling music and books, which other countries view mainly in terms of technological change, acquires more than a tinge of economic nationalism in France.

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Suggs is currently appearing on the Edinburgh Fringe in his one-man show, My Life Story in Words and Music.

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