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Aug 15, 2019
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JIM WIRTH
Lowe quietly regenerated for a post-punk world
TRIPPING relentlessly to nullify the grind of seemingly endless tours with pub-rock journeymen Brinsley Schwarz, bassist Nick Lowe crumbled in the mid-1970s before finally seeking psychological help. “I didn’t speak and I was covered in lice and I had gonorrhoea,” he remembers with a shudder. “I was a horrible hippie case and my mind had really gone. I certainly thought I was never going to be mentally well again, and as a matter of fact, I don’t think
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