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The The's Normal Guy

Jon Young, Creem, October 1984

NEW YORK — Soft-spoken Englishman Matt Johnson, a.k.a. The The, complains, "The press likes to stereotype me as a depressive. It's due to my confessional style of writing, I suppose, but I'm no more depressed than anyone else is. I mean, everybody gets depressed."

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