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This much I know: Viv Albertine, writer and musician, former guitarist with The Slits

I cleaved onto music as an escape. It was my way out of an unpleasant childhood, says Viv Albertine.

This much I know: Viv Albertine, writer and musician, former guitarist with The Slits

Sat, 25 Feb, 2017 - 00:00

In conversation with Hilary Fennell

I was obsessed with it from far too young an age.

The first record I heard was round my baby-sitters house. The Beatles ‘You Can’t Do That’ the B side to ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’.

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