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“LOOK at their hair!” grumbled Saturday shoppers outside Leeds’ Queens Hall, observing punks and alternative types piling into the first Futurama festival over the weekend of September 8–9, 1979. “There were born-again Christians outside trying to save our souls,” remembers attendee Jan Alexander, who had ‘Dee Linkwent’ sprayed on her leather jacket. “They said the Devil

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