Rick Wakeman discography

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Rick Wakeman is an English keyboardist, composer and songwriter, most known as the keyboard player for progressive rock group Yes. His solo albums have sold over 50 million copies.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Solo

=Albums=

==1970s==

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scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | CAN
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! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | US
{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/rick-wakeman/chart-history/tlp/ |title=US Albums |publisher=Billboard |access-date=February 22, 2025}}

!style="width:1em;font-size:90%"|AUS
{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=331}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | NZ
{{cite web |url=https://charts.nz/search.asp?search=Rick+Wakeman&cat=a|title=nz Albums |publisher=charts.nz |access-date=February 22, 2025}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | NOR
{{cite web |url=https://norwegiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Rick+Wakeman&cat=a|title=Norwegian Albums |publisher=norwegiancharts.com|access-date=February 22, 2025}}

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;"| UK
{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2846/rick-wakeman/|title=Official Charts > Rick Wakeman|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|accessdate=February 22, 2025}}

scope="row" | Piano Vibrations

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scope="row" | The Six Wives of Henry VIII

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  • Released: January 23, 1973
  • Label: A&M

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  • AUS: Gold{{cite magazine|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/70s/1975/CB-1975-09-13-OCR-Page-0039.pdf|access-date=February 22, 2025|title=Wakeman Liztomania Score Complete;Time Out For Gold|magazine=Cash Box|date=September 13, 1975|page=39}}
  • US: Gold{{cite certification|region=United States|artist=Rick Wakeman|access-date=January 28, 2025}}
scope="row" | Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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  • Released: May 3, 1974
  • Label: A&M

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  • AUS: Gold
  • BRA: Gold{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Record-World-IDX/IDX/70s/75/Record-World-1975-11-08-OCR-Page-0094.pdf|last=McCreight|first=Ron|title=Record World International: Germany|work=Record World|date=8 November 1975|accessdate=22 October 2024}}
  • CAN: Gold"[https://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum/?_gp_search=Rick%20Wakeman Certified Rick Wakeman Awards]
  • UK: Gold[http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx BPI Certified Awards Search]
  • US: Gold
scope="row" | The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

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  • Released: March 27, 1975
  • Label: A&M

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  • AUS: Gold
  • BRA: Gold
  • UK: Gold
scope="row" | Lisztomania

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  • Released: November 1975
  • Label: A&M

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scope="row" | No Earthly Connection

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  • Released: April 1976
  • Label: A&M

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scope="row" | White Rock

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  • Released: January 1977
  • Label: A&M

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  • UK: Silver
scope="row" | Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record

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  • Released: November 1977
  • Label: A&M

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scope="row" | Rhapsodies

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  • Released: May 1979
  • Label: A&M

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colspan="16" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

==1980s==

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!style="width:1em;font-size:90%"|US
{{cite web|title=Rick Wakeman - Awards|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rick-wakeman-mn0000300245/awards|website=AllMusic|access-date=19 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827185219/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rick-wakeman-mn0000300245/awards|archive-date=27 August 2012}}

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rowspan=2| 1981

| The Burning (soundtrack)

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1984| 241036
1982

| Rock 'n' Roll Prophet

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rowspan=2| 1983

| Cost of Living

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G'olé!: The Original Film Soundtrack| —
1984

| Crimes of Passion

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rowspan=2| 1985

| Silent Nights

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Live at Hammersmith

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  • Recorded in 1985

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1986

| Country Airs

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  • Re-recorded with a digital piano in 1992 with additional tracks

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rowspan=2| 1987

| The Family Album

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The Gospels| 94
rowspan=4| 1988

| Time Machine

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A Suite of Gods (with Ramon Remedios)| —
Zodiaque (with Tony Fernandez)| —
The Word and the Gospels| —
rowspan=2| 1989

| Black Knights at the Court of Ferdinand IV (with Mario Fasciano)

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Sea Airs| —
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==1990s==

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rowspan=2| 1990

| Night Airs

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In the Beginning

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rowspan=9| 1991

| Phantom Power

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  • Re-released in 2017 in an expanded edition titled Phantom of the Opera

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Rock 'n' Roll Prophet Plus

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  • Reissue of Rock 'n' Roll Prophet plus 4 new tracks

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Aspirant Sunrise

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Aspirant Sunset

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Aspirant Sunshadows

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The Classical Connection

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  • Re-recordings of earlier tracks in a classical style

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African Bach

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2000 A.D. Into The Future

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Softsword: King John and the Magna Charter

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  • Adapted from music written for the 1991 Dickens Festival

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rowspan=5| 1993

| Heritage Suite

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Prayers

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Classic Tracks

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  • Re-recorded tracks from the first three solo albums

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The Classical Connection 2

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Unleashing the Tethered One: The 1974 North American Tour

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  • Unauthorised bootleg of a Canadian television broadcast from October 1974

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rowspan=3| 1994

| Live on the Test

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  • Recorded in April 1976

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Rick Wakeman's Greatest Hits

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  • Re-recorded tracks from his solo albums and Yes

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Light Up the Sky (EP)

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rowspan=7| 1995

| Almost Live in Europe

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The Piano Album

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  • Recorded in 1994

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The Private Collection

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  • Previously unreleased tracks

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The Seven Wonders of the World

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Rick Wakeman In Concert

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  • Recorded in November 1975, also released as Live on The King Biscuit Flower Hour

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Visions

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  • Also known as Visions of Paradise

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Cirque Surreal

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rowspan=5| 1996

| Fields of Green

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The New Gospels

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The Word and Music

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Can You Hear Me?

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  • Contains original and remixed and re-recorded versions of tracks from Prayers and Softsword

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Orisons

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9 of the 22 tracks are duplicates of tracks of Prayers

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rowspan=3| 1997

| Tribute

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Simply Acoustic

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  • The Piano Album (1995) with added introductions and stories

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Fields Of Green '97

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  • Reissue with the addition of "Election 97/Arthur"

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rowspan=1| 1998

| Themes

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  • Compilation of TV themes

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rowspan=4| 1999

| Return to the Centre of the Earth

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White Rock II

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The Natural World Trilogy

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The Art in Music Trilogy

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==2000s==

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rowspan="5"|2000

| Preludes to a Century

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Chronicles of Man

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Christmas Variations

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The Legend: Live in Concert 2000

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Morning Has Broken

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rowspan="4"|2001

| Out of the Blue

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  • Recorded in Buenos Aires in 2001
Classical Variations

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Tales of Future and Past

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  • US 2 CD compilation
Two Sides of Yes

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  • Interpretations of 7 Yes songs
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| The Wizard and the Forest of All Dreams

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Treasure Chest (8-CD boxset)

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  • The Real Lisztomania
  • The Oscar Concert
  • The Missing Half
  • Almost Classical
  • The Mixture
  • Medium Rare
  • Journey to the Centre of the Earth Plus
  • Stories
Two Sides of Yes Volume 2

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The Yes Piano Variations

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  • Compilation of tracks from the Two Sides Of Yes albums
2003

| Out There

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2005

| At Lincoln Cathedral

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2006

| Retro

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rowspan="3"|2007

| Live at the BBC

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Retro 2

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Video Vault (6-DVD set)

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  • Live at the Empire Pool: King Arthur on Ice 1975
  • Live at the Maltings 1976
  • Live Swedish Television Special 1980
  • Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 1981
  • Night Music
  • Rarities
rowspan="2"|2009

| The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Live at Hampton Court Palace

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Past, Present and Future

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==2010s==

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style="width:1em;font-size:90%"|UK
{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2846/rick-wakeman/|title=Rick Wakeman {{!}} full Official Chart history|publisher=Official Charts Company|accessdate=7 December 2019}}

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2010

| Always with You

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rowspan="2"| 2012

| In the Nick of Time: Live in 2003

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

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  • Re-recording with additional material

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2016

|The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

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  • Re-recording with additional material

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2017

| Piano Portraits

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  • UK: Silver{{cite web|url=https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified|title=BRIT Certified|work=British Phonographic Industry|access-date=4 October 2024}}
2018

| Piano Odyssey

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2019

| Christmas Portraits

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2019

| Official Bootleg Series 1–11

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==2020s==

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2020

| The Red Planet

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2020

| Hero: The Original Soundtrack

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2022

| A Gallery of the Imagination

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2022

| Live from Elche

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2024

| Live at the London Palladium 2023

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colspan="6" style="text-align:center; font-size:9pt;"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

=Non-album singles=

Note: These are singles that were not taken from a regular album. These songs were only released in these singles or were included on future compilations.

  • 1985: "Lytton's Diary" (for a TV series of the same name)
  • 1994: "Light Up the Sky"

=Compilations=

  • 1997 Voyage (sub-titled "The Very Best of Rick Wakeman"; digitally remastered 2-CD set)
  • 1999 The Masters: compilation of tracks from 1979 to 1996
  • 2000 Recollections: The Very Best of Rick Wakeman 1973-1979
  • 2002 Songs of Middle Earth (Inspired by The Lord of the Rings)[http://www.rwcc.com/faq.asp Rick Wakeman Frequently Asked Questions], A reissue of tracks from Heritage Suite and Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, renamed to fit the Lord of the Rings theme. The artist does not consider this a release.
  • 2004 Revisited (re-recordings of past material)
  • 2015 After the Ball: The Collection (same tracks as Recollections)
  • 2017 The Journey: The Essential Rick Wakeman: Spectrum 3CD compilation from the A&M years. The 3rd CD features all of Lisztomania and White Rock.

=Video games=

With band or duo

=With Strawbs=

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Live albums

Studio albums

Compilations

=With Yes=

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

=With Dave Cousins=

  • Two Weeks Last Summer (1972)
  • Hummingbird (2002)
  • Wakeman & Cousins Live (2005)
  • 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 2: Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins (2010)

=With Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe=

Studio albums

Live albums

=With Adam Wakeman/Wakeman with Wakeman=

Studio albums

  • Wakeman with Wakeman (1993; also known as Lure of the Wild)
  • No Expense Spared (1993)
  • Romance of the Victorian Age (1995)
  • Tapestries (1996)
  • Vignettes (1996)

Live albums

  • Wakeman with Wakeman: The Official Bootleg (1994; also known as Wakeman with Wakeman Live, The Stage Collection, and Official Live Bootleg)

=With Anderson/Wakeman=

Studio albums

Live albums

=With Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman=

  • Live at the Apollo (2018)

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Other collaborations

Guest appearances

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References

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