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The Jonathan Richman Colouring Scrapbook

Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 20 May 1978

Fun for all the family in the Modern World as No.1 citizen J. RICHMAN holds court in a rare and candid interview with our own NICK KENT. Was he painfully introverted as a teenager, asks Kent. "No I just had no friends that's all," answers Richman, who goes on to describe himself as a "lonely obnoxious kid" whose world turned on its head when he encountered the Velvet Underground.

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