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Morbid Tales

When I was a teenager in the 70s, radio was much more diverse than it is today. What was considered pop music might be Carl Douglas’s ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ or Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’, and rock’n’roll radio had a much broader palette than it does today, when everything is so very calculated. The DJs would be actual disc jockeys who would play records. Musically speaking, bands such as KISS, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purpl,e and the like

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