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Damon Albarn: "Pop's gone back to showbiz. It's like the Beatles or Dylan never happened."

Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 27 April 2014

WHEN DAMON ALBARN was nine, he persuaded his parents, who were in the process of moving house from Leytonstone in east London to rural Essex, to let him travel to Istanbul with a family friend.

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