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That evening, he switched on the radio, Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lot of Love" was blaring out and Jeff jumped into the Mississippi River for a swim.
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At the height of the "girl group" phenomenon which ran roughly from 1961 to 1966 he co-wrote "Be My Baby, " "Baby, I Love You, " "Chapel of Love, " "Leader of the Pack, " "River Deep, Mountain High" and dozens of others.
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The very existence of the gods was inseparable from that of a storm, a sea, a river, or from those powerful human emotions love, rage or sexual passion that seemed momentarily to lift men and women onto a different plane of existence so that they saw the world with new eyes.
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