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Curtain Opened, Heard the Crowd Roar
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Real bands save fans, real fans save bands.
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The first song I learned from start to finish was that awful tune βOde to Joyβ β you probably would have heard it at school.
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Then one day in school, I turned round to the others and said, 'Dude, what if we started a band like All Time Low?
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So this book is like a thank you. We want everyone to know the story of how four Western Sydney teenagers picked up their instruments and dreamt of being one of the biggest bands in the world.
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The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time,
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