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Grandmaster Flash: All Hands On Deck

Andrew Purcell, Guardian, The, 27 February 2009

They thought he was mad, they spat him off stage, he hit the drugs... But Grandmaster Flash gave 'DJ' a whole new meaning. Andrew Purcell meets a man who scratched his way to the top

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