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This is a transitional time. Summer into fall. Summer into school. Summer into not summer anymore. Well, I say good riddance. It was too hot anyways. Unfortunately, as summer goes so too does Rock and Roll Summer School. We did have a good run. Went all the way from Sam Phillips, Jimmie Rodgers, and Harry Smith (I expect you to know those names by now) to Bruce Springsteen (relatively minor character, don't worry about it) singing "Tougher Than The Rest". There is no show tomorrow night, no review session, and also no exam. This was really more of a participatory thing.  The only song I feel fit to sum up such an educational adventure is one that was overlooked until now. One song that contains the decades of rock that came before it, and foreshadows the ones that followed: Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

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