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Miles, NME, 22 January 1977
"DA HIPPY Church" is what my Dutch cab driver calls it. As regular readers will know, The Paradiso is a converted church in the centre of Amsterdam, existing in a shimmering flower power time-warp from 1967 where soft drugs are legal and plentiful.
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