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Anegada Da Vida, Baby

CCORDING TO MUSIC lore, Doug Ingle, organist and lead vocalist for the legendary rock band Iron Butterfly, wrote the band’s most popular song during an evening of heavy drinking. The instrument-driven ballad would eventually run more than 17 minutes, cover the entire Side B of an album, and be named one of the top hard-rock songs in history by VH1. The title of the song was supposed

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