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I Was A Pop Star's Arse-wiper!

Martin Aston, Q, January 2000

For as long as there have been rock stars, there have been rock star "support systems", from the Memphis Mafia to "Spanish" Tony Sanchez to A Certain Female Rock Star's wretched cocaine-up-the-bottom roadie. They do heroic work and they have gone down in legend, but as Martin Aston discovers, life as a rock star's PA can be thankless.

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