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- Move those (replaced) hips -

An 81-year-old DJ is filling dance floors across Sweden with groovers who would rather dance to a reasonable hour in the early evening than into the night.

Madelein Mansson, aka DJ Gloria, "was listless and sad" after her husband died.

Then one summer night drinking wine with friends "I heard myself say, 'I think I'm going to be a DJ,'" she told AFP.

But she discovered there wasn't a single club that opened before 11 pm.

"Scandalous! I want to be home and in bed by 11," she said. "So I asked a friend, 'Do you want to start a 50+ disco with me?'"

Now she plays Sweden's hottest clubs with special early evening gigs for c

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