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The Who did you say?

Maureen O'Grady, Rave, June 1965

ABOUT A YEAR ago they used to be the High Numbers. They sang about zoot suits and faces. These songs were brave tries to get across to their kind of people... The Mods. Their publicist of the time called them the only real Mod group around. But success-wise nothing much happened.

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