Give Us a Break (Limpopo album)

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Give Us A Break
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Released1995
Genre Rock
Label Folk'n'Roll Records
Red Elvises chronology
Crazy Russian Folk And Roll
(1995)
Give Us A Break
(1995)
Grooving To The Moscow Beat
(1996)

Give Us A Break was a 1995 album by Russian folk rock group Limpopo, who later became the Red Elvises.

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