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Be-bop Deluxe: Futurama

Ira Robbins, Circus Raves, December 1975

FIVE YEARS AGO in the bleak Northeast England town of Wakefield a guitar player named Bill Nelson sat around rapping with some friends who owned a record shop. They were mapping out plans for an album. Bill Nelson had some fast fluid songs, strange tunes with jagged pointed edges and he wanted to record them.

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