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Alison Mosshart: "I listened to love songs for 24 hours straight yesterday"

Kate Mossman, The Guardian, 10 March 2013

SOME MUSICIANS wear their commitment to rock'n'roll like a series of battle scars. Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme has the place and time of his worst ever gig tattooed on his forearm. Alison Mosshart, one half of the Kills and powerful frontwoman of Jack White's band the Dead Weather, celebrated her first appearance with long-term musical partner Jamie Hince by inking herself with "14-02-02".

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