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  "textContent": "“Our stuff is like West Side Story,” he says of the Van Halen back catalogue",
  "title": "\"As a vocalist, every word I sing in the Van Halen songbook, I wrote. I wrote every line, every melody, every harmony stack. For better or worse, if you're singing it – Roth was bringing it\": David Lee Roth has clarified his creative role in Van Halen",
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