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Can: They Have Ways Of Making You Listen…

Ian MacDonald, NME, 9 November 1974

ONE NIGHT IN NOVEMBER 1969 the phone rang in Irmin Schmidt's Cologne home. Schmidt got out of bed to answer it and found himself talking to a guard on the Swiss-German frontier at Basle.

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