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Roland Gift: "I went back to where being pretty didn't matter"

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 3 December 2020

He was "the first black punk in Hull" and was named one of the world's 50 most beautiful people. But the singer turned his back on pop stardom. He reveals why he's returning with a gritty musical about a band called the Blacks.

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