Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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God, 2020's been a miserable year.

I mean, the pandemic, economic ruin, the crazy U.S. election, which featured an impeached

president, and it's not over yet.

Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash, the death of George Floyd,

murder hornets arriving in North America,

swarms of locusts descending on Africa.

There were so many hurricanes that they ran out of names.

The Olympics were postponed,

out-of-control wildfires in both North America and Australia,

and we lost more musicians, Neil Peart, Eddie Van Halen, Spencer Davis, and dozens of others.

So, yeah, it has been rough.

What we need is something to remind us of the before times, the better times.

The times when we could count on certain things always being there.

A time when we could just turn it up, rock out, and forget all the bad stuff.

That something has arrived, an event that shows us that things can turn around,

even when it looks hopeless, is the return of ACDC.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Welcome to a special edition of the ongoing history of new music.

I'm Alan Cross, and I don't do a lot of these special edition programs unless there's

something really special to talk about.

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