He hitch hiked from Adelaide to London with a powerful vision to rule the entertainment world.
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"The people we hitch-hiked to Brussels with told us how dangerous Molenbeek was," said Jacob, a young Swede, after a visit organized by the Brussels Greeters organization.
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He had hitch-hiked to Gainesville for a chance to try out for the Florida Gators football team.Peter Golenbock, Go Gators! An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory, Legends Publishing, LLC, St. Petersburg, Florida, p. 30 (2002).
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The two brothers hitch-hiked to Seattle, where they boarded a tramp steamer headed back to the East Coast, via the Panama Canal. They stopped in Cuba before finally arriving home. Some have suggested that this trip inspired future Hardy Boys books.
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The messages revealed the location of German submarines. It took Andrews two weeks to learn the operation of the machines. Andrews hitch-hiked from Bletchley to Trafalgar Square to celebrate VE Day in 1945. She only began sharing her war experiences 70 years after the war ended.
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At the 1982 World Cup in Spain he hitch-hiked 15,800 kilometers in order to follow his team. He has also gone through 9 or 10 "bombos". He owned the bar Tu Museo Deportivo next to the Estadio Mestalla that doubles as a sports museum. It was closed in 2011.
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Faisal is an avid traveller having travelled to over 50 countries, motorcycled across Thailand, researched red leaf monkeys in the rainforests of Borneo, hitch-hiked on container ships, sky-dived in Florida and journeyed to The Khunjerab Pass (the world's highest paved border crossing). Faisal enjoys world history, tennis, skiing, and boxing.
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Bainum hitch-hiked to Washington, D.C. in 1936, where he took menial jobs. With his savings, he started a plumbing business. He later became a real estate developer and real estate investor. He served as the chairman of Realty Investment Co. Bainum was the co-founder of a hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1957.
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Dring grew up in Fakenham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He was expelled from boarding school in Woodbridge for midnight swimming in the River Deben. He later studied at King's Lynn Technical College. In 1962, at the age of 17, he left home and hitch-hiked overland across Europe and the Middle East, out to India and South-East Asia.
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She hitch hiked and was picked up by Tyler. At the end of the video, the two singers play with dogs in snow. Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn performing "Si demain... (Turn Around)" at La Cigale (Paris) on 8 June 2005. "Si demain... (Turn Around)" is a bilingual pop rock song, recorded in English and French.
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We > hitch-hiked and took trains to all of our shows. It was fun and very > liberating. We sing a mix of personal and political lyrics, we are > anarchist, we are dedicated to the DIY ethic and the struggle to make the > world a better place. We play music and travel for fun and to meet new > people.
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He served as a teacher at a private experimental school until 1932. In 1925, he married a high school classmate—also a school teacher Gertrude Heller. For their honeymoon they hitch-hiked across the country to California and back to New Jersey. His first book We the People was published in London and he gained a place at the London School of Economics.
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She boarded as a Kansas born Californian, disembarked as a Swedish born starlet in waiting.Dimock, Brad. Sunk Without a Sound. Flagstaff: Fretwater Press Another source maintains that Greta, barely surviving the hardships of living on her own in San Francisco, hitch-hiked from northern to southern California in the company of Geraldine Andrews By 1929 Greta had reconciled with her parents.
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Shea was born to Irish parents in Los Angeles in 1946. There he frequented Venice Beach and the Baldwin Hills for their wildlife. He attended UCLA and Berkeley and hitch- hiked twice across the US and Canada. At a hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Shea chanced on a battered book from the lobby shelves, The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (1966).
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One can make a comparison between the democratic free speech newspapers like NOLA Express and Wiki publications on the Internet today because of its free use and open sourcing. New Orleans was considered the Third Coast by 1960s countercultureal migrants who hitch-hiked between San Francisco, Austin, New Orleans, Key West and New York.Gorski, Hedwig. Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street.
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Hinsley hitch- hiked to Switzerland from where he returned to the United Kingdom. He made his return just before Britain declared war on Germany. In October 1939, while still at St. John's, he was summoned to an interview with Alastair Denniston, head of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS;), and was thereby recruited to Bletchley Park's naval section in Hut 4.Kahn, 1991, p.
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Briggs was born in Toton, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, on 29 September 1944. Her mother died of tuberculosis when she was young. Her father, Albert, was severely injured in World War II and she was raised in Toton by her Aunt Hilda and Uncle Bill, who also brought up Hilda's youngest sister, Beryl, and their own daughter Betty. In 1959 she hitch-hiked with a friend to Edinburgh.
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51 Despite reports of Dean's speed being around , Nelson estimated that the actual speed was around , based on the wreckage and position of Dean's body. Wütherich survived with a broken jaw and serious hip and femur injuries that required immediate surgery. Turnupseed was only slightly injured with facial bruises and a bloodied nose. After being interviewed by the CHP, Turnupseed hitch-hiked in the dark to his home in Tulare.
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In lieu of college, Francis hitch-hiked in 1967 to Goa, India, where he ran a small export business. Upon his return to the US in 1968, he began his career in sound. He is an environmental activist who helped spearhead the saving of the Putney Woods on Whidbey Island, Washington from certain clear cutting and development. His wife Leslie Larch was once a can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France.
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When he was 15, he organized a strike among the delivery boys of the powerful Chugoku Shimbun newspaper. The company had increased the delivery routes without increasing pay. Such experiences led Yoneda to progressive ideas. He began reading the works of anarchists and socialists such as Karl Marx, Engels, Kropotkin, Bakunin, and the blind anarchist poet Vasili Eroshenko, whom he hitch-hiked to meet in Beijing when he was 16 years old.
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Both Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma hail from a military background. Rocky has held a number of jobs in the past, ranging from managing a gas distributorship to working with British Airways. He is also a wild-life enthusiast and among his passions are scuba diving, ornithology, golf and above all his food. Mayur has travelled and hitch-hiked his way across sixty five countries and is passionate about squash and rock-climbing.
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In December 1967, reaching a crisis point with Barrett, Pink Floyd added guitarist David Gilmour as the fifth member. Gilmour already knew Barrett, having studied with him at Cambridge Tech in the early 1960s. The two had performed at lunchtimes together with guitars and harmonicas, and later hitch-hiked and busked their way around the south of France. In 1965, while a member of Joker's Wild, Gilmour had watched the Tea Set.
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He hitch-hiked to Kingston, and during an impromptu game of football at Arrows Dub plate studio he met Steely & Clevie. After telling them that he was a singer, they invited him to Studio 2000, where he recorded his first tracks. Their first song together was "Grow Your Natty", which was followed by the hit "Call The Hearse". With talks of an album Steely wished to change the name Junior Melody to Bushman.
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During World War II, his father worked six to seven days a week, 12 hours a day, under demanding and dangerous physical conditions. Jay Last enjoyed hiking, walking, and exploring while growing up. Between his junior and senior years of school, at age 16, he and a friend hitch-hiked to San Jose, California, and worked for the summer picking fruit. A voracious reader, he tended to complete his schoolwork well in advance of the rest of the class.
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Kinga Choszcz, better known as Kinga Freespirit (10 April 1973, Gdańsk, Poland - 9 June 2006, Ghana), was a well-known Polish traveler and travel writer. Kinga's first solitary journey led her to India and Nepal overland. Soon after she met her life partner Radosław Siuda (better known as Chopin), and together they hitch-hiked around the world for 5 years. Kinga then published her book Led by Destiny and followed her heart's call to go to Africa.
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Clay earned a bachelor’s degree from Emory University. After earning his master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University, Clay hitch-hiked to Louisville in 1939 for a job interview with the Louisville Times. His first job as a reporter there paid $25 a week. Enlisting in the Army at Fort Knox in 1942, he became the distribution officer of the European Edition of YANK Magazine, due to his experience as the rotogravure picture editor at the Courier Journal.
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They were constantly passed by German trucks, and figured there would be less chance to be captured if they hitch hiked with one of them. When a truck offered them a lift they accepted, and the officer on board offered to sit in the back and watch their backpacks—which were filled with explosives. Luckily for the saboteurs the backpacks were not seized. The night before 4 May 1942 the three men arrived at Orkdal where they targeted the transformer station.
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Mike was born in Britain, and early developed an interest in herpetology. While working as a volunteer at the British Museum, he was advised to go to Australia and Papua New Guinea if he wanted to do any ground-breaking research on amphibians. Around 1958–1959 he hitch-hiked to Australia. He joined the University of Adelaide staff as a laboratory technician in 1961, studying and researching part-time, and by 1971 had been promoted to Laboratory Manager, Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology.
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Mark Gillespie and his friend Jonathan Mansfield went to Mile End school in Stockport where, as Gillespie contends on the "Supersonic Wednesday" DVD, they were "the only ones being heterosexual". Teachers told them it would be helpful to gain life experience if they wanted to become successful actors. To do so, they hitch- hiked across Europe, which they financed by busking. They named their newly formed band "The Blue Jars" and toured through countries like Belgium, Germany, Norway, Sweden or finally Israel, where Mansfield stayed.
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He stayed for about three years in England, before deciding that he had had enough of the 'belly of the beast'. In 1964, he decided to leave 'Babylon' for his spiritual homeland, Ethiopia, with only five pounds, five shillings and five-and-a-half pence in his pocket. It took him around 1 year to reach his destination. He did not literally "walk", but hitch-hiked through France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Sudan, before arriving in Addis Ababa in September 1965.
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Calzaghe played the bass guitar for his uncle's band 'Survival'. He was conscripted into the Italian Air Force at the age of 19 and immediately found a place in their Milan football team, where he spent much of the next two years. Upon completing his national service in 1969, Calzaghe decided to travel around Europe, making money as a busker. He hitch-hiked from one city to the next for the next couple of years, often sleeping rough in city squares and phone-boxes.
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Glasgow School of Art, 1979 McConnell attended the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1954 to 1959 where he studied sculpture under Benno Schotz. McConnell filmed his first ever documentary there in 1957, a film depicting the experience of his fellow student artists who studied at the school. The film was silent and had a running time of 17 minutes. While he was a student, McConnell hitch-hiked to film festivals all over Europe and became inspired by the experimental short films that he saw.
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In 1939 he volunteered for military service and was commissioned in the Royal West Kent Regiment and posted to India. After the Japanese surrender he hitch-hiked to Bombay where he was appointed Officer Commanding ENSA in Rawalpindi. Despite contracting rheumatic fever, which caused his fingers to stiffen, he continued playing. A few days after returning to Britain he visited the BBC, still in uniform, to watch a broadcast of Children's Hour and was immediately taken on to write and perform musical versions of Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhymes.
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Although her coursework mostly consisted of simply writing about what she had done each day, it proved to be useful training for her later writing about her travels and adventures. Her father died in 1957, and when she was thirteen, Rosie was sent to a strict boarding school for girls in Cork. Aged 18, her first job was as a reporter for a regional newspaper, the Surrey Advertiser. This did not last long; she then hitch-hiked to Delhi, Nepal and Russia, with almost no money or luggage.
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From there he took part in the D-Day landings and went on to fight German tank and infantry divisions in the Forêt d'Écouves. Badly wounded in a battle on the outskirts of Paris, he was discharged and sent to a hospital from which he escaped and hitch-hiked to Paris to rejoin his unit. He then fought with them in a series of battles at Andelot, Hourcourt, and Châtel-sur-Moselle. For his role in establishing the bridgehead across the Moselle, he was promoted to Sub-lieutenant in September 1944.
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She was born Susan Marie Beschta on April 21, 1952 in Appleton, Wisconsin – one of five children of a Catholic couple, Gerald and Jean Beschta. The culture was traditional and her father was keen on sports but, while she was fond of the place, she chose a different path. After college at University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, she went to the hippy scene of California and then hitch-hiked across the country to study fine arts at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she hoped to become a painter.
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May Erlewine was born to a musical family; her father Michael Erlewine was a member of the Michigan blues band The Prime Movers and her uncle is a luthier. Her work shows a variety of musical influences, such as folk, bluegrass, blues, rock & roll and others. It has grown from her experience as a child, home-schooled and surrounded by music, and as a teenager, when she hitch-hiked across North America, riding freight trains and performing on the streets. Erlewine has described how her songs are the expression of her experiences.
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In 1972 he joined the National Academy of Dance in Champaign, Illinois from which he was dismissed for behavior problems. Bissell then spent a year at the North Carolina School of the Arts which he left when he was informed that he should pay more attention to his academic studies. He hitch- hiked all the way to New York to pursue a lifelong career in dance-- as that's where the company's top schools are. He then won a scholarship to study at the School of American Ballet, where he was encouraged by Lincoln Kirstein, its founder, and Stanley Williams, one of his teachers.
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Gone Bald is a noise rock band from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The band was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 1994. Soon thereafter, the band hitch-hiked to Amsterdam and that's where the band still lives, even though singer/guitarplayer Razorblade Jr is the only original member left after numerous changes in line-up. Gone Bald has toured Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and shared the stage with bands like The Jesus Lizard, Butthole Surfers, Chinese Stars, The Ex, Ninewood, Today Is The Day, Neptune, Sebadoh and The Flying Luttenbachers.
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The Warehouse Leeds, Yorkshire, was where Soft Cell first had a meeting with Stevo, who had hitch-hiked to Leeds from London, picked up at Staple Corner by the band Modern English as he was holding a sign saying "Leeds". Marc Almond was impressed with Stevo, who he is quoted as saying "had the gift of the gab" and was "immensely likeable". Stevo said that he was putting together the Some Bizzare Album, which would include bands that "broke down barriers". He preferred to include undiscovered bands that he could then license to major record companies through his Some Bizzare label.
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Nyah Man Chant is the debut album from Jamaican roots reggae singer Bushman. It was released in 1997 by Greensleeves Records in the United Kingdom and by VP Records in the United States.Barrow, Steve & Dalton, Peter (1999) "Reggae: 100 Essential CDs", Rough Guides, Bushman had hitch-hiked seventy miles to Kingston in the hope of furthering his career.Larkin, Colin (1998) "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae", Virgin Books, After meeting renowned production team Steely & Clevie in the car park of the Arrows dub-cutting studio, where they were playing football, he auditioned on the spot and was invited to their studio.
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Sievey grew up in Ashton-on-Mersey, Sale, Cheshire (2.5 miles from Timperley, the town with which Frank Sidebottom would be associated). In 1971 he decided on a career in music and hitch-hiked to London with his brother, staging a sit-in at the Apple Records HQ, demanding to see one of The Beatles.Robb, John (2009) The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City (1977–1996), Aurum, , p. 22 When they were asked to leave they insisted on recording something, and were booked into the studio after playing a song to head of A&R; Tony King.
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On his return to London he became a regular reviewer in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies and The Times Literary Supplement. From 1968 to 1984 he was the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society, which involved him in ordering and cataloguing the Society's collections. In 1971 Digby hitch-hiked to Venice with a friend, who was later the BBC World Service's regional manager in Delhi. The two left Venice and travelled by sea to Rhodes and Anatolia, and then on public transport through Turkey to Tehran, Kirman, Zahidan and Quetta.
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The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press Clive James and Lex Banning as well as future political journalists Laurie Oakes and Mungo McCallum Jr. Between times, he hitch-hiked around Australia and lived for several months at a Sydney Push household at Milsons Point,Alexander, Peter F. Les Murray: a Life in Progress. Oxford University Press UK, 2000 where he was introduced to Virgil's Eclogues by his poetically inclined host, Brian Jenkins. He returned to undergraduate studies in the 1960s and became a Roman Catholic when he married Budapest-born fellow-student Valerie Morelli in 1962.
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He hitch-hiked across Canada and through the West, married Deborah Silber soon after his 18th birthday, then traveled with her around the world, stopping to work at a TB clinic in Hong Kong and a mission hospital in Bihar, India. From 1970-1974 Insel attended Boston University Medical School with plans to return to Asia working in tropical medicine. These plans changed with exposure to two prominent Boston neuroscientists: Walle Nauta at MIT and Norman Geschwind at Harvard Medical School. Following medical school, he trained in psychiatry at University California San Francisco (1976-1979) including a Jungian psychoanalysis and a first exposure to research with Irwin Feinberg.
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Before creating the band in 1966, Irvine, Moynihan and Dolan had met in Dublin and had performed and travelled together, on and off, around Ireland; Irvine and Dolan hitch-hiked together around Europe (Munich, Vienna and Rome) in late 1965. The name 'Sweeney's Men' was inspired by Dolan's reading of Flann O'Brien's comic novel At Swim-Two- Birds, which depicts the mad, anti-religious, tree-leaping pagan King Sweeney of Antrim. The band's manager was Eamonn O'Doherty, and he and the band travelled in a red VW van. The band often travelled to Milltown Malbay to enjoy musical sessions with the piper Willie Clancy.
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Kenney grew up in a small business family in Wakefield, New Hampshire, and continues to live in Wakefield with his wife and two children. At a young age Kenney worked as an auction runner at his family's auction barn in Rochester, New Hampshire, and picked blueberries during the summer at Daily's Blueberry Mountain Farm in Brookfield to help pay for his grammar school clothes. He went on to become a pot-washer, cook and head cook at Pierce Camp Birchmont in Wolfeboro, where he worked for nine summers throughout high school and college. He attended Spaulding High School in Rochester and hitch-hiked to basketball practice to play on the varsity team during the winter.
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Baird went to university and gained an MA in philosophy of education, and during the course of her degree she spent a year off in France, hitch-hiked around Europe, and protested against the war in Vietnam in Paris alongside Simone de Beauvoir. Baird later taught French and English before working as a special needs teacher with teenagers in deprived areas of Chester, until she retired to write books and become a director of Cavern City Tours. Baird and Jackie met their half-sister Ingrid Pedersen for the first time when they were present at the ceremony to place a Blue Heritage plaque on Mimi's house, commemorating the fact that Lennon had lived there.
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Gerretsen left the Netherlands at the age of sixteen and after travelling through Europe for two years, immigrated to Australia in 1961. He first started to take pictures while working as a crocodile hunter in Cape York Peninsula, (Queensland, Australia) In 1963 he immigrated to the U.S.A., landing in San Pedro, California, and while working as a cowboy in Falfurrias, Texas, bought a movie camera and shot his first film footage. In 1967 he arrived in Singapore and hitch-hiked through Malaysia to Bangkok, (Thailand) and via Kanchanaburi to the Three Pagodas Pass where he spent three months with the pro-U Nu Burmese rebelsVarious Articles: Singapore, Malaysia, Burma and Cambodia under the command of General Bo Yan Naing.General Bo Yan Naing He traveled through Laos, Cambodia and entered South Vietnam,Cambodian-S.
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The family hailed from Boaz, Alabama, United States, but rode the rails and hitch-hiked to California in 1933 when the band members were still children, following the failed efforts of their sharecropper parents during the early part of the Depression. They were a little in advance of the flood of Okies who were to flood the state in the 1930s. They struggled to make a living as itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers, following the harvest as far north as Washington and as far east as Arizona, as well as the San Joaquin Valley. They often worked from dawn to dusk, sleeping and eating on the ground.} Having settled in Modesto, California, the family developed their musical ability, and in 1937, performed on the radio, sponsored by a local furniture store. In 1939, they entered a hillbilly band competition at the centennial Sacramento State Fair after driving to Sacramento in their Model A. When they took the stage, they tore through "Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down" with rocking rhythms and risqué lyrics.
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