What we hear as we are singing is not what the audience hears.

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Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa.

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Mr. MERRITT: (Singing) We are the Gothic Archies, (unintelligible).

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The event, held at Los Angeles' Staples Center, kicked off with Taylor Swift singing her hit We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

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The party really kicked off when the cast of Queen musical We Will Rock You got the crowd singing and clapping along to its title track, followed by We Are The Champions.

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Every night we have a celebration - there are Christmas carols, singing in the square and inside the church.

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Where Are We Now? is a simple, unfussy ballad - Bowie singing mournfully over a piano motif that slowly builds to an understated coda.

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You know, people are looking for - we are looking forward to it, and then when it happened they stand out all night singing, dancing on the streets.

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In fact, last night, we were singing a song on the telephone together because she's done a collection of songs that are set to Yeats poems.

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