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Graeme Thomson
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 15 March 2025
issue 15 March 2025

Progressive rock never died. Whenever some grizzled punk soldier next appears on a BBC4 documentary relaying their version of that beloved old fairytale, the Sex Pistols’s Slaying of the Dinosaurs, it’s worth remembering that nothing of the sort occurred.

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