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Vince Taylor: The Leper Messiah

Kieron Tyler, MOJO, November 2000

Black leather, bike chains, orange make-up, a Christ complex: Vince Taylor was the ultimate nut rocker. Kieron Tyler tells the tragic tale of a '60s Ziggy Stardust who fell to earth.

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