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A series of large music festivals, all called Sweetwaters, were held in Waikato and south Auckland in the 1980s and 1990s. The first, in 1980, was held at a farm near Ngāruawāhia. In this film clip Rick Steele sings ‘The ballad of Arthur Allan Thomas’, a song that was then banned from being played on the radio.
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