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Steve Hillage

WHAT’S it been like “curating” Love From The Planet Gong? We finally got the privilege of going through the complete Virgin Gong tape archive, and that’s what I was particularly involved in, going through the tapes and selecting what we’d use. There have been other Gong boxsets, but they’ve never had access to the Virgin archive. But now we’re finally putting the record straight – we’ve got the first proper CD release of Flying Teapot from the original masters on here.

You were a fan of Gong before you joined, weren’t you?

Yeah, I

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