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Cult singer-songwriter Joan Wasser on her collaboration with the late and legendary drummer Tony Allen

‘Back when I started touring in 1990 people often assumed I was a girlfriend and not in the band’: Joan Wasser, aka Joan As Policewoman, whose new album is out now. Credit: Lindsey Byrnes

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