It bites the big lad in the windmill

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THOUGH IT WAS TAILOR-MADE FOR THEIR MARKET, AMERICANS NEVER

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09 October, 2025

“the battlefield is littered with the corpses of british bands who tried to make it in america and then lost their identity.

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