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The Shadows: Let's Go To Work

Bob Stanley, MOJO, June 2004

TONY MEEHAN, 15, is kicking his heels in Kilburn one late '50s afternoon when his friend Dave Rees suggests a trip to Soho. He may as well have suggested Paris. Just three miles south, Soho in the '50s was a square mile of shamelessness: madams and gamblers, thugs, beats and dropouts. An endless Bohemian carnival.

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