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TIL that Marc Bolan of T.Rex ad-libbed the line “Meanwhile, I'm still thinking” at the end of the band’s 1971 song “Bang a Gong (Get It On), because he originally desired to record Chuck Berry’s song “Little Queenie”. The line “Meanwhile, I’m still thinking” came from that Chuck Berry song.

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