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SET HIM FREE THIS TIME — Uncut's Adam Sweeting revisits Gene Clark's cosmic cult classic No Other in 2001 and Sounds' Mick Brown hails the former Byrd's "soulful return" in early 1976. Plus Goldmine's Steve Roeser reports from L.A. on Clark's last live shows in the spring of 1991…
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STUBBORN KINDS OF FELLOW — Mick Brown meets Marvin Gaye in London (Guardian, 1981), hangs out in a New York studio with Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack (Daily Telegraph, 1999) and describes a rare audience with his soon-to-be biographical subject Phil Spector (Telegraph Magazine, 2003).
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