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Your parents had to have let you stay up till midnight Friday/Saturday August 1, 1981 to have ever seen this. This probably all seems totally quaint and archaic now but this collectively blew us ALL away back in the day :) EDIT: Had to remove about 3.5 mins of this due to a claim by "April Wine"...I really tried to get them to understand that ...
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