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Big hair, big hits

he 70s: the decade that style forgot. Who said that? Seriously? What a plonker. The maker of such a sweeping and ridiculous generalisation was clearly not knocking around London in the electrifying days of punk and a new emerging dance-club movement calling itself the New Romantics. The music, the clothes,

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