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GO-BETWEENS drummer Lindy Morrison clattered into Tracey Thorn’s dressing room in March 1983, when the future Everything But The Girl star was preparing to support Orange Juice at London’s Lyceum with her first band, the Marine Girls. Eleven years Thorn’s senior, and a good deal more forthright, Morrison introduced herself with a bellow: “HAS ANYONE HERE GOT A LIPSTICK I CAN BORROW?”

It was the beginning of an unlikely friendship, which Thorn has documented in all its messy details in . A hippie

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