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after a performance at the Port O' Call restaurant. He failed to appear at the first hearing and was given a failure to appear charge, with the court issuing an "order to arrest". He was discovered to be in the
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singles under his own name, which were produced by his mathematics tutor, Mr. Dehaney. These early works were influenced by the music of
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