, in which anthony newley plays this proto mod—looking character, who would do all the joints inhe other — introduce the main act. and i landed that kind of a gig at a club called mr smith's. don't forget — this is about late 1975. yeah, i saw you fairly early on and have a vision of you — you're stick—thin, i think you've got a suit on. suit on, yeah. got this mop of black hair, the glasses — you looked like no other poet on earth that i'd ever heard of. was that very deliberate — you wanted to say to folks...? 0h, absolutely. dressing is one thing that you do on purpose. laughs. and so, clears throat, i had this look already - established of a, you know, a tonic suit with narrow, parallel trousers, natural shoulder ivy league jacket and so, i already planned to look punky in that and everybody else, including your elderly relations, had shoulder—length hair by now and were wearing seed packet shirts and flared trousers. so, i did look kind of, you know, out of time. you did. you look — i mean, you had a look which was unique but what you didn't have — which a lot of the punk mu

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