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Andy Partridge

> He helped lead one of the punk era’s most long-lived and musically varied groups through 34 years of eclectic and at times groundbreaking music. During that time, XTC co-founder Andy Partridge defined himself as an eccentric and prodigious composer of songs inspired by ska, pop, rock and folk, and a guitarist with a flair for crafting off-kilter chords and licks, as well as whiplash solos that followed no predictable

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