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What was the original ethos behind Be-Bop Deluxe?

When we started it was just a bit of fun; we didn’t have a plan to make records or turn professional. It was obviously very influenced by the early days of glam – dressing up more or less to freak people out in the local working men’s clubs we were playing in – but it took off. There wasn’t any other band doing it in our neck of the woods. I’d come out of the hippie scene and the psychedelic blues scene. The bands

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