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| 1963/69 || Lagos Baby 1963-1969 || Vampisoul
| 1963/69 || Lagos Baby 1963-1969 || Vampisoul
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| 1969 || ''[[The '69 Los Angeles Sessions]]'' || [[Wrasse Records]]
| 1964/68 || ''Koola Lobitos 64-68'' (six previously unreleased tracks on a 2001 CD that also includes ''[[The '69 Los Angeles Sessions]])|| MCA Universal
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| 1967 || Fela's London Scene (FEHIN FEHIN (Chop Teeth-Chop Teeth / Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) / Who're You / Buy Africa / Fight To Finish) || MCA Universal
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| 1971 || ''Why Black Man Dey Suffer'' || Wrasse Records, Knitting Factory Records
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| 1971 || ''[[Live! (Fela Kuti album)|Live!]]'' (with [[Ginger Baker]]) || [[Barclay Records]], [[MCA Records]], [[Wrasse Records]]
| 1969 || ''[[The '69 Los Angeles Sessions]]'' (the 2001 CD also contains ''Koola Lobitos 64-68'') || [[Wrasse Records]] / MCA Universal
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| 1971 || ''Why Black Man Dey Suffer (b/w Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality)'' || Wrasse Records, Knitting Factory Records / MCA Universal
| 1972 || ''[[Stratavarious]]'' (with [[Ginger Baker]]) || [[Polydor Records]]
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| 1971 || ''[[Live! (Fela Kuti album)|Live!]]'' (with [[Ginger Baker]]) (Let's Start / Black Man's Cry / Ye Ye De Smell / Egde Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die)'' The 2001 CD release adds ''Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo (Live At The 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival'' as a bonus track. || [[Barclay Records]], [[Wrasse Records]] / MCA Universal
| 1972 || ''Na Poi'' || Barclay Records
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| 1972 || ''[[Stratavarious]]'' [[Ginger Baker]] (Fela and various band members are on the tracks ''Ariwo / Iiwa (It's Our Own) / Something Nice / Ju Ju'' only) || [[Polydor Records]]
| 1972 || ''Open & Close'' || Barclay Records
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| 1972 || ''Shakara'' || Barclay Records
| 1972 || ''Na Poi (Part 1&2) (b/w You No Go Die...Unless)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1972 || ''Roforofo Fight: Music of Fela'' || Barclay Records
| 1972 || ''Open & Close (b/w Swegbe And Pako / Gbagada Gbagada'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1972 || ''Question Jam Answer: Music of Fela Vol. 2'' || Barclay Records
| 1972 || ''Shakara (Lady / Shakara (Oloje)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1973 || ''Afrodisiac'' || Barclay Records
| 1972 || ''Roforofo Fight: Music of Fela (Rofofo Fight / Go Slow)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1972 || ''Question Jam Answer: Music of Fela Vol. 2'' (Question Jam Answer / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wahe Am / Shenshema / Ariya)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
| 1973 || ''[[Gentleman (album)|Gentleman]]'' || Barclay Records
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| 1974 || ''Alagbon Close'' || Barclay Records
| 1973 || ''Afrodisiac (Alu Jon Jonki / Jeun Ko Ku (Chop & Quench) / Eko ille / Je'Nmi Temi (Don't Gag Me)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''Noise for Vendor Mouth'' || Barclay Records
| 1973 || ''[[Gentleman (album)|Gentleman]] (Gentleman / FEFE NAA EFE / IGBE)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''[[Confusion (album)|Confusion]]'' || Barclay Records
| 1974 || ''Alagbon Close (b/w I No Get Eye For Back)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''Everything Scatter'' || Barclay Records
| 1975 || ''Noise for Vendor Mouth'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''He Miss Road'' || Barclay Records
| 1975 || ''[[Confusion (album)|Confusion]]'' (Confusion Part 1&2)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''[[Expensive Shit]]'' || Barclay Records
| 1975 || ''Everything Scatter / Who No Know Go Know'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1975 || ''He Miss Road (b/w Monday Morning In Lagos / It's No Possible)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
| 1976 || ''No Bread'' || EMI Nigeria
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| 1976 || ''Kalakuta Show ''|| Barclay Records
| 1975 || ''[[Expensive Shit]] (b/w Water No Get Enemy)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1976 || ''Upside Down'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Unnecessary Begging (b/w No Buredi (No Bread))'' || EMI Nigeria / MCA Universal
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| 1976 || ''Ikoyi Blindness'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Kalakuta Show ''|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1976 || ''Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Upside Down (b/w Go Slow)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1976 || ''Excuse O'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Ikoyi Blindness (b/w Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''[[Zombie (album)|Zombie]]'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana (Monkey Banana b/w Sense Wiseness)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1976 || ''Yellow Fever'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Excuse O (b/w Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''[[Zombie (album)|Zombie]]'' (Zombie b/w Mister Follow Follow) The 2001 MCA Universal CD release adds 2 previously unreleased cuts, Observation Is No crime & Mistake (Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival-1978)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
| 1977 || ''Opposite People'' || Barclay Records
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| 1977 || ''Fear Not For Man'' || Barclay Records
| 1976 || ''Yellow Fever'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Stalemate'' || Barclay Records
| 1977 || ''Opposite People (b/w Equalisation Of Trouser And Pant)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Fear Not For Man (b/w Palm Wine Sound [Instrumental])'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Stalemate (b/w Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Observation No Crime'' || EMI Nigeria
| 1977 || ''Observation No Crime'' || EMI Nigeria
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| 1977 || ''Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D Live!! at Kalakuta Republic)'' || Barclay Records
| 1977 || ''J.D.D. (Johnny Just Drop) Live!! at Kalakuta Republic'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''I Go Shout Plenty'' || EMI Nigeria
| 1977 || ''I Go Shout Plenty'' || EMI Nigeria
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| 1977 || ''No Agreement'' || Barclay Records
| 1977 || ''No Agreement (b/w Dog Eat Dog [Instrumental])'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Sorrow, Tears, and Blood (b/w Colonial Mentality)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1977 || ''Sorrow, Tears, and Blood'' || Barclay Records
| 1978 || ''Shuffering and Shmiling'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1978 || ''Shuffering and Shmiling'' || Barclay Records
| 1979 || ''Unknown Soldier (Part 1&2)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1979 || ''Unknown Soldier'' || Barclay Records
| 1979 || ''V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power) Part 1&2 - Live in Berlin'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1979 || ''V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power) Live in Berlin'' || Barclay Records
| 1980 || ''Coffin for Head of State'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1980 || ''Coffin for Head of State'' || Barclay Records
| 1980 || ''I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) Part 1&2'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1980 || ''I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)'' || Barclay Records
| 1980 || ''Music of Many Colours'' (with [[Roy Ayers]]) (2000 Blacks Got To Be Free b/w Africa Centre Of The World)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1980 || ''Music of Many Colours'' (with [[Roy Ayers]]) || Barclay Records
| 1980 || ''Authority Stealing (Parts 1&2)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1981 || ''Black President'' (A 13 track 2 CD compilation with many tracks in edited versions)|| EMI Nigeria
| 1980 || ''Authority Stealing'' || Barclay Records
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| 1981 || ''Black President'' || EMI Nigeria
| 1981 || ''Original Suffer-Head (b/w Power Show)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1981 || ''Original Suffer-Head'' || Barclay Records
| 1983 || ''Perambulator'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1983 || ''Live in Amsterdam (M.O.P. (Movement Of The People) Political Statement Number 1 / You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit / Custom Check Point)'' || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
| 1983 || ''Perambulator'' || Barclay Records
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| 1985 || ''Army Arrangement'' (the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds ''Government Chicken Boy'' (previously unreleased original version) || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
| 1983 || ''Live in Amsterdam'' || Barclay Records
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| 1985 || ''Army Arrangement (Cross Examination / Government Chicken Boy / Army Arrangement)'' (Fela later disowned this version Produced by [[Bill Laswell]] who added session musicians to the original tracks) || YABA / Celluloid
| 1985 || ''Army Arrangement'' || Barclay Records
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| 1986 || ''Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense'' || Barclay Records
| 1986 || ''Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (b/w Look And Laugh)'' (the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds ''Just Like That'', a track that was left off of ''Beast Of No Nation'''s CD release due to time constraints. || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1989 || ''Beasts of No Nation'' || Barclay Records
| 1989 || ''Beasts of No Nation (b/w Just like That)'' (b/w ''O.D.O.O.'' on the 2001 CD release)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1989 || ''O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)'' || Barclay Records
| 1989 || ''O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) (b/w Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.))'' (''O.D.O.O.'' was included on the 2001 ''Beasts Of No Nation'' CD release) || Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1992 || ''U.S. (Underground System)'' || Barclay Records
| 1992 || ''U.S. (Underground System) (b/w Pansa Pansa)'' (the 2001 CD release adds ''Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)'' which was previously the B-Side of the ''O.D.O.O.'' album)|| Barclay Records / MCA Universal
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| 1996 || ''Buy America'' || Movie Play Gold
| 1996 || ''Buy America'' || Movie Play Gold

Revision as of 02:43, 6 November 2013

This is a discography for Fela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.[1]

Year Title Label
1963/69 Lagos Baby 1963-1969 Vampisoul
1964/68 Koola Lobitos 64-68 (six previously unreleased tracks on a 2001 CD that also includes The '69 Los Angeles Sessions) MCA Universal
1967 Fela's London Scene (FEHIN FEHIN (Chop Teeth-Chop Teeth / Egbe Mi O (Carry Me) / Who're You / Buy Africa / Fight To Finish) MCA Universal
1969 The '69 Los Angeles Sessions (the 2001 CD also contains Koola Lobitos 64-68) Wrasse Records / MCA Universal
1971 Why Black Man Dey Suffer (b/w Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality) Wrasse Records, Knitting Factory Records / MCA Universal
1971 Live! (with Ginger Baker) (Let's Start / Black Man's Cry / Ye Ye De Smell / Egde Mi O (Carry Me I Want To Die) The 2001 CD release adds Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo (Live At The 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival as a bonus track. Barclay Records, Wrasse Records / MCA Universal
1972 Stratavarious Ginger Baker (Fela and various band members are on the tracks Ariwo / Iiwa (It's Our Own) / Something Nice / Ju Ju only) Polydor Records
1972 Na Poi (Part 1&2) (b/w You No Go Die...Unless) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1972 Open & Close (b/w Swegbe And Pako / Gbagada Gbagada Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1972 Shakara (Lady / Shakara (Oloje) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1972 Roforofo Fight: Music of Fela (Rofofo Fight / Go Slow) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1972 Question Jam Answer: Music of Fela Vol. 2 (Question Jam Answer / Trouble Sleep Yanga Wahe Am / Shenshema / Ariya) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1973 Afrodisiac (Alu Jon Jonki / Jeun Ko Ku (Chop & Quench) / Eko ille / Je'Nmi Temi (Don't Gag Me) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1973 Gentleman (Gentleman / FEFE NAA EFE / IGBE) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1974 Alagbon Close (b/w I No Get Eye For Back) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1975 Noise for Vendor Mouth Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1975 Confusion (Confusion Part 1&2) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1975 Everything Scatter / Who No Know Go Know Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1975 He Miss Road (b/w Monday Morning In Lagos / It's No Possible) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1975 Expensive Shit (b/w Water No Get Enemy) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Unnecessary Begging (b/w No Buredi (No Bread)) EMI Nigeria / MCA Universal
1976 Kalakuta Show Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Upside Down (b/w Go Slow) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Ikoyi Blindness (b/w Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana (Monkey Banana b/w Sense Wiseness) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Excuse O (b/w Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Zombie (Zombie b/w Mister Follow Follow) The 2001 MCA Universal CD release adds 2 previously unreleased cuts, Observation Is No crime & Mistake (Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival-1978) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1976 Yellow Fever Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Opposite People (b/w Equalisation Of Trouser And Pant) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Fear Not For Man (b/w Palm Wine Sound [Instrumental]) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Stalemate (b/w Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Observation No Crime EMI Nigeria
1977 J.D.D. (Johnny Just Drop) Live!! at Kalakuta Republic Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 I Go Shout Plenty EMI Nigeria
1977 No Agreement (b/w Dog Eat Dog [Instrumental]) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1977 Sorrow, Tears, and Blood (b/w Colonial Mentality) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1978 Shuffering and Shmiling Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1979 Unknown Soldier (Part 1&2) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1979 V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power) Part 1&2 - Live in Berlin Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1980 Coffin for Head of State Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1980 I.T.T. (International Thief Thief) Part 1&2 Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1980 Music of Many Colours (with Roy Ayers) (2000 Blacks Got To Be Free b/w Africa Centre Of The World) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1980 Authority Stealing (Parts 1&2) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1981 Black President (A 13 track 2 CD compilation with many tracks in edited versions) EMI Nigeria
1981 Original Suffer-Head (b/w Power Show) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1983 Perambulator Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1983 Live in Amsterdam (M.O.P. (Movement Of The People) Political Statement Number 1 / You Gimme Shit I Give You Shit / Custom Check Point) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1985 Army Arrangement (the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds Government Chicken Boy (previously unreleased original version) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1985 Army Arrangement (Cross Examination / Government Chicken Boy / Army Arrangement) (Fela later disowned this version Produced by Bill Laswell who added session musicians to the original tracks) YABA / Celluloid
1986 Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (b/w Look And Laugh) (the 2001 MCA Universal CD adds Just Like That, a track that was left off of Beast Of No Nation's CD release due to time constraints. Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1989 Beasts of No Nation (b/w Just like That) (b/w O.D.O.O. on the 2001 CD release) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1989 O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) (b/w Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.)) (O.D.O.O. was included on the 2001 Beasts Of No Nation CD release) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1992 U.S. (Underground System) (b/w Pansa Pansa) (the 2001 CD release adds Confusion Break Bones (C.B.B.) which was previously the B-Side of the O.D.O.O. album) Barclay Records / MCA Universal
1996 Buy America Movie Play Gold
1999 The Best Best of Fela Kuti Barclay/MCA Records[2]/Wrasse Records (2002)[3]/Knitting Factory Records (2009)
2004 The Underground Spiritual Game Quannum Projects
2012 Live in Detroit, 1986 Knitting Factory Records, Strut Records

References

  1. ^ "Seattle Weekly: Barack Obama and the Original First Black President". Retrieved 2009-07-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ "Fela Kuti - The Best Best Of Fela Kuti (CD) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
  3. ^ "Fela Kuti - The Best Of The Black President at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
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