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The Death Disc Race

David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 9 January 1965

HOW DO you feel about death? In pop music, I mean. Death is inevitable for all of us, that's certain. But there's a great deal of uncertainty in the record industry about what is suitable subject-matter for entertainment songs.

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