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“The bands recognised you were part of the scene and you just wound up getting access”
MICHAEL GRECCO

was definitely a wild time,” says Michael Grecco of the five or so years he spent on the Boston post-punk and new wave. The city was a jumping-off point for British bands hoping to break America, and Grecco was there when The Police launched their first US tour with four shows at The Rathskeller, nicknamed The Rat – a “dirty shithole that smelled of puke, smoke and old beer”.

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