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The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie and the ’70s Rock Scene
by Laura Davis-Chanin
(Backbeat Books, £19.99)

 

“THIS is not the book you think it is,” warns Laura Davis-Chanin at the start of The Girl in the Back.

 

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