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I think it was the killer basslines that hooked me in and the attitude as much as anything.
When I first moved to Wellington in 1980 I guess I was still writing folk songs. Louise and I had found work at the Art Centre and I felt under pressure to write.
That first Specials album was a killer – every track, every instrument.
Wellington had its own kind of …
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