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Paul Hardcastle: Leytonstone Now!

Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 11 May 1985

Paul Hardcastle was watching a TV show on Vietnam when he learned that the average age of American soldiers who fought there was just 19. Now his single about that statistic is storming up the charts. Paolo Hewitt meets the East End electro-man who's become pop's latest hot shot.

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