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at the end of 1981. He said he was dissatisfied with how the magazine's profits were being invested in "starting up new, invariably unsuccessful publications" rather than improving
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bass guitarist Keith Welsh. According to O'Grady, it was "a tip sheet ... to highlight records that are starting to work at radio and/or retail" before they appeared on the
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