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ROCK THAT TOWN — Mark Cooper meets rockabilly renegades the Stray Cats in Leeds (Record Mirror, 1980) and Karen Schlosberg follows the quifftastic trio "out of the litter box and into the fire" (Creem, 1983). Plus Bill Millar's exemplary crash course in rockabilly's wild history (History of Rock, 1981)...
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GIRL IN THE NORTH COUNTRY — Vivien Goldman takes the road to Wigan Casino to report on the Northern Soul scene (NME, 1975). Plus Vivien travels to Jamaica to meet Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Burning Spear (Sounds, 1976) and salutes the great "she-punks" of the late '70s (New Statesman, 2011)…
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