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Big Heat is a Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung first released in 2000. This album was released before Leslie Cheung's Passion Tour concert.
The song 'Fever' won China's Original Music Award (2001). The song 'I' is said to be a song of the self-statement of Leslie Cheung.
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