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Sun Ra

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."

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"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."

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"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record."

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"I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college."

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"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."

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"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."

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