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Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 6 March 1980
WHEN I met Paul Weller I saw red. His shirt, his trousers, his pullover, his shoes and I daresay his St. Michael Y-fronts were all in shades of scarlet, with only the odd dash of white for two-tone tastefulness.
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