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They had found their sweet spot: spiky power pop buffed into a commercial sheen by Roy Thomas Baker, the producer famous for his skillful work on Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

“Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest. He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff,” she wrote Tuesday.

He seems resigned to offer incremental variations on what we’ve heard before, with the quirkiness and character that once made them interesting buffed away.

Film buffs sit snugly in cars watching a drive-in movie, munching popcorn on a lovely recent fall night.

World War II history buffs knew it as the Chinese Nationalists’ wartime capital.