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The Face Interview: Phil Oakey

Lesley White, The Face, December 1982

I MET UP with Phil Oakey one wet Sheffield Wednesday afternoon over coffee and a Tupperware box of assorted chocolate biscuits, in the Formica-finished kitchen of his newly rented love-nest: a large modern-ish, housing-estate detached with three bedrooms and a distinct air of suburban respectability.

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