Hints and tips:
...There’d be ska, Turkish and Greek folk music in the neighbourhood, and everybody in the same piss-pot of poverty.” He contracted meningitis at seven and was in and out of comas for nearly a year....
...Cooper’s compulsion is cars. “Like, if I saw a ’63 Studebaker, or a [Pontiac] Banshee, man, I’d kill for that car.”...
...When I need a fillip, I find a bit of John Cooper Clarke never fails....
...“These boys have talent and now a nuanced sense of what they want to do,” he told me by phone from his locked-down bunker on the Côte d’Or....
...Thornberry Sr was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; in 2007, Thornberry Jr voted against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons....
...There was a time I started playing with him again, in the 1980s, and we did some touring, you know, off and on, then I’d duck out. Sometimes he wouldn’t invite me! And then I’d come back.”...
...Certainly the fair’s elegant design and high-quality offerings, from tribal art to Old Master paintings or modern sculpture, was a succès d’estime....
...One can see why Val McDermid said that she wished she’d written it....
...As a rock concert promoter is quoted as saying in No Logo: “If a kid went to a concert and there wasn’t merchandise to buy, he’d probably go out of his mind.”...
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