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Kate Moss Shane MacGowan

Classic Paddies

December 1, 2023October 17, 2022 Frank Armstrong

The music was the code. It was the transliteration of the style. It was not giving a bollocks in a thoroughly musical manner. It was fuck this and fuck that and frankly fuck you. A rockety life came with the territory. You didn’t have to be Irish. Their England had been influenced by that Ireland … Read more

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