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A Happy Sad Starsailor from Washington D.C.

Andy Childs, ZigZag, August 1974

BEFORE I ENTERED the glamorous and exciting world of the rock n' roll business on a full-time basis, I used to "work" (a rather loose expression you understand) for one of the country's larger construction companies, not as you'd wickedly like to imagine in the guise of a bricky or a road-digger, but in a laboratory staffed by agreeable and well-meaning people most of whom probably thought I was completely mental.

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