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class="">Brilliant</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">Rock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1982–1986</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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class="hlist"><ul><li>Limelight Music</li><li>Risk Records</li><li><a href="/wiki/Rough_Trade_Records" title="Rough Trade Records">Rough Trade</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Food_Records" title="Food Records">Food</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">WEA</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Past members</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cauty" title="Jimmy Cauty">Jimmy Cauty</a><br />June Montana<br /><a href="/wiki/Martin_Glover" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Glover">Youth</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ben_Watkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Watkins">Ben Watkins</a><br />Marcus Myers<br /><a href="/wiki/Guy_Pratt" title="Guy Pratt">Guy Pratt</a><br />Stephane Holweck<br /><a href="/wiki/Andy_Anderson_(drummer)" title="Andy Anderson (drummer)">Andy Anderson</a><br />Peter Ogi<br />Rob Waugh</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Brilliant</b> were a British pop/rock group active in the 1980s. Although not commercially successful and mauled by the critics, they remain notable because of the personnel involved – <a href="/wiki/Martin_Glover" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Glover">Martin Glover</a> a.k.a. Youth of <a href="/wiki/Killing_Joke" title="Killing Joke">Killing Joke</a> and subsequently a top producer/remixer; <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cauty" title="Jimmy Cauty">Jimmy Cauty</a>, later to find fame and fortune as one half of <a href="/wiki/The_KLF" title="The KLF">The KLF</a>; and (prior to the band signing with <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">WEA</a>) <a href="/wiki/Ben_Watkins" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Watkins">Ben Watkins</a> a.k.a. Juno Reactor. Equally notable was their management (<a href="/wiki/David_Balfe" title="David Balfe">David Balfe</a>), their record company <a href="/wiki/A%26R" class="mw-redirect" title="A&R">A&R</a> manager (<a href="/wiki/Bill_Drummond" title="Bill Drummond">Bill Drummond</a>, the other member of The KLF), and songwriting and production team (<a href="/wiki/Mike_Stock_(musician)" title="Mike Stock (musician)">Mike Stock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Aitken" title="Matt Aitken">Matt Aitken</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Waterman" title="Pete Waterman">Pete Waterman</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Stock_Aitken_Waterman" title="Stock Aitken Waterman">Stock Aitken Waterman</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Brilliant started in 1982 as <a href="/wiki/Post-punk" title="Post-punk">post-punk</a> band <a href="/wiki/Killing_Joke" title="Killing Joke">Killing Joke</a> was crumbling under internal conflicts. Unsatisfied with his bandmates' following of the <a href="/wiki/Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> lifestyle, Killing Joke's bass player <a href="/wiki/Martin_Glover" class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Glover">Youth</a> decided to call it quits and recorded an angry slandering song against his former bandmates. The song, "That's What Good Friends Are For...", a mock of Killing Joke's second album <i><a href="/wiki/What%27s_THIS_for...!" class="mw-redirect" title="What's THIS for...!">What's THIS for...!</a></i>, was credited to "Brilliant", which was a name of a Killing Joke B-side and a general 1980s <a href="/wiki/Buzzword" title="Buzzword">buzzword</a>. </p><p>For the first incarnation of Brilliant as a full band, Youth recruited Marcus Myers on vocals and guitar, who left as the record deal was about to be signed, the only vocalist until June Montana took over from backing vocals, (joined Hard Rain, Then Jericho, Alishas Attic) a second bass player <a href="/wiki/Guy_Pratt" title="Guy Pratt">Guy Pratt</a> (who left for the Australian band <a href="/wiki/Icehouse_(band)" title="Icehouse (band)">Icehouse</a> and was replaced by Frenchman Stephane "Tin Tin" Holweck (later to form <a href="/wiki/Total_Eclipse_(French_band)" title="Total Eclipse (French band)">Total Eclipse</a>) prior to their first live performances), and the two drummers <a href="/wiki/Andy_Anderson_(drummer)" title="Andy Anderson (drummer)">Andy Anderson</a> (The Cure) and Peter Ogi, along with synthesist Rob Waugh. They released two singles, "That's What Good Friends Are For..."/"Push" (Limelight Music LIME 001/A/B with a sleeve by Mark Alleyne) and "Colours" (through Rough Trade Records with a sleeve by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Manning" class="mw-redirect" title="Mark Manning">Mark Manning</a>). They recorded a BBC session for <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a> on 11 October 1982 with a lineup of Youth, Myers, Tin Tin, Anderson and Ogi.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Overall through its four years of existence the band included roughly 30 players until reducing to the trio of Youth, Cauty and female vocalist June Montana. </p><p>The debut single with this lineup, a cover of <a href="/wiki/James_Brown" title="James Brown">James Brown</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/It%27s_a_Man%27s_Man%27s_Man%27s_World" title="It's a Man's Man's Man's World">It's a Man's Man's World</a>", was critically acclaimed by the music press, and became the group's biggest hit on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles Chart</a>, albeit only peaking at No. 58 in October 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group released their only album <i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i> in 1986, and three further singles, "Love Is War" (UK No. 64), "Somebody" (UK No. 67) and a cover of "<a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_(Skeeter_Davis_song)" title="The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)">The End of the World</a>". The album was produced by the British production team <a href="/wiki/Stock_Aitken_%26_Waterman" class="mw-redirect" title="Stock Aitken & Waterman">Stock Aitken & Waterman</a> (except the song "Crash the Car"), but it only peaked at No. 83 in the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>. The album was reissued on CD by independent U.S. <a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">record label</a>, Wounded Bird, on 11 August 2009. </p><p>Speaking of the creative process of recording the album with SAW, Youth said, "We’d be cowriting with them, starting a new song, and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Waterman" title="Pete Waterman">Pete Waterman</a> would come in with a handful of New York import <a href="/wiki/Twelve-inch_single" title="Twelve-inch single">12”s</a> with him, and he’d go to the record player and say, 'Right, that’s the fuckin' <a href="/wiki/Bassline" title="Bassline">bassline</a>!', and then he'd play another record and go, 'That’s the beat!’. Then he'd play another record, it's <a href="/wiki/Cyndi_Lauper" title="Cyndi Lauper">Cyndi Lauper</a>, and he'd go, 'That's the melody!"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"It was that <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Picasso</a> thing; don’t borrow, steal it. I loved that. And that got me and Jimmy thinking, let’s go further and sample it, and make the music from other people’s records."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Speaking of Brilliant's final single, a cover of "<a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_(Skeeter_Davis_song)" title="The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)">The End of The World</a>," which failed to chart at all, June and Youth expressed reservations over the choice of the song, with the singer suggesting the release had been a half-hearted effort released at the behest of the record company.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"I just thought it was schmaltz," Youth added. "Bill [Drummond] really pushed for that."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the commercial failure of the band's debut album, WEA failed to pick up Brilliant's contract for renewal. But when the act were offered a lucrative new deal with Polydor, WEA took them to court and forced an extension of their contract, which the label argued had only not been picked up due to an administrative oversight.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite forcing a continuation of the band's contract, WEA did not release any further material by Brilliant, leaving Youth to pursue a career as a producer and writer.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The band split in late 1986, but group members continued working with each other on subsequent years. Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond formed The KLF in 1987. June Montana formed the female duo <a href="/wiki/Disco_2000_(band)" title="Disco 2000 (band)">Disco 2000</a> with Cauty's wife Cressida,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> releasing several singles on the <a href="/wiki/KLF_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="KLF Communications">KLF Communications</a> label. Youth and Cauty worked together again in the band <a href="/wiki/The_Orb" title="The Orb">The Orb</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reviews">Reviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kiss_the_Lips_of_Life"><i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Kiss the Lips of Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Trouser_Press" title="Trouser Press">Trouser Press</a></i> reviewer Ira Robbins called <i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i> "dismal" and the band "cynical"<sup id="cite_ref-tp-1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tp-1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "wretched", adding that "[their] lasting cultural significance amounts to its inclusion of ex-<a href="/wiki/Zodiac_Mindwarp" class="mw-redirect" title="Zodiac Mindwarp">Zodiac Mindwarp</a> keyboardist/guitarist <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Cauty" title="Jimmy Cauty">Jimmy Cauty</a>, with whom [Bill] Drummond concocted the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (JAMs)".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> were a little more generous, calling Brilliant an initially "promising act: a more soulful take on the aggressive funk-rock of Killing Joke" but added that, after being teamed up with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, they "came up with a generic pop-dance album that fell well short of the original concept". Awarding <i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i> two stars out of five, they added that "What aggression there is comes courtesy of Jimmy Cauty's metallic guitar solos; the sterile synth whitewash of SAW dominates the rest of the mix, and vocalist June Montana isn't strong or distinctive enough to fight through it".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Music_Week" title="Music Week">Music Week</a></i>, a review of the <i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i> stated that "Brilliant are a very 1986 band with a strong image", but criticized the "lack of punch" and "pale vocals and dance rhythms" on this album.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Helen Mead awarded the album a 7/10 score, considering that Brilliant "produce some highly memorable soul with bubbling horns and piano, and some extremely electro-junk full of zappy sound effects"; she also added that with Brilliant "you never get bored", as "they're always trying something different, one minute calm and collected, the next furiously funky".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, even Bill Drummond – the A&R man who had signed them<sup id="cite_ref-AMG_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AMG-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – had harsh words to say about the project: "I signed a band called Brilliant, who I worked with, we worked together, and it was complete failure. Artistically bankrupt project. And financially deaf. We spent £300,000 on making an album that was useless. Useless artistically, useless... commercially."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pete Waterman said: "We did a record with this band called Brilliant, the reviews were phenomenal and it got to 58 in the charts. I remember saying to the guys, fuck that for critically acclaimed music, you can't pay the fucking rent with that."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles">Singles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Singles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<b>Love Is War</b>"</li></ul> <p>Jerry Smith of the <i><a href="/wiki/Music_Week" title="Music Week">Music Week</a></i> magazine praised "Love Is War", produced by SAW, and the cover of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" as "excellent" songs.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Robin Smith of <i><a href="/wiki/Record_Mirror" title="Record Mirror">Record Mirror</a></i> called "Love Is War" a "cumbersonme" single with a "pretty disinterested tune, low on atmosphere and extremely diluted".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same issue of the magazine, <a href="/wiki/James_Hamilton_(DJ_and_journalist)" title="James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)">James Hamilton</a> stated that "those masters of the soundalike, producers Stock-Aitken-Waterman now copy <a href="/wiki/Change_(band)" title="Change (band)">Change</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Change_of_Heart_(Change_song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Change of Heart (Change song)">Change of Heart</a>" for a purposefully pushing <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac 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2023, Alexis Petridis of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> listed the song at number 17 in his "Stock Aitken Waterman's 20 greatest songs – ranked!", adding: "A more sophisticated, US soul-inspired production style than that which made SAW famous – still sounds great".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>"<b>Somebody</b>"</li></ul> <p>Regarding "Somebody", Stuart Bailie of <i><a href="/wiki/Record_Mirror" title="Record Mirror">Record Mirror</a></i> noted "the very wonderful June Montano moving more to the front, and <a href="/wiki/Youth_(musician)" title="Youth (musician)">Youth</a> involving himself in outside ventures", and said the song "is a fine, but never outstanding, dance track, vaguely reminiscent of Man Parish".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jerry Smith of <i><a href="/wiki/Music_Week" title="Music Week">Music Week</a></i> considered "Somebody" as being "well constructed and produced", but "not as powerful as previous singles".<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Albums">Albums</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Albums"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Kiss the Lips of Life</i> (1986), WEA/Food Records/Atlantic - <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK</a> No. 83<sup id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Singles_2">Singles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Singles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"That's What Good Friends Are For..."/"Push" (1982), Limelight Music - <a href="/wiki/UK_Indie_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Indie Chart">UK Indie</a> No. 22<sup id="cite_ref-Lazell_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lazell-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Colours" (A.Anderson/M.Glover/M.Myer/S.Holweck)/"Colours Monster Mix" (1983), Risk Records/Rough Trade - UK Indie No. 11<sup id="cite_ref-Lazell_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lazell-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Soul Murder" (1984), Food Records - UK Indie No. 14<sup id="cite_ref-Lazell_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lazell-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Wait for It" (1984), WEA/Food Records</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/It%27s_a_Man%27s_Man%27s_Man%27s_World" title="It's a Man's Man's Man's World">It's a Man's Man's Man's World</a>" (1985), WEA/Food Records - <a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK</a> No. 58<sup id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Love Is War" (Youth/Montana/Cauty/Stock/Aitken/Waterman)/"The Red Red Groovy" (Youth/Montana/Cauty)/"Ruby Fruit Jungle" (Youth/Montana/Cauty/Holwick/Le Mesurier) (1986), WEA/Food Records - UK No. 64<sup id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Somebody" (1986), WEA/Food Records/Atlantic - UK No. 67<sup id="cite_ref-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_&_Albums-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_(Skeeter_Davis_song)" title="The End of the World (Skeeter Davis song)">The End of the World</a>" (1986), WEA/Food Records</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brilliant_(band)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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