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Captain Sensible & Dolly Mixture: Sense and Sensibility

Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 10 July 1982

SHE DIDN'T look a day under 75, but she recognised him instantly. Up to her elbows in pie and mash and jellied eels, the woman behind the counter gazed at the hungry customer and two words passed her lips: "Captain Sensible!"

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