Old music: The Wallflowers – Blushing Girl, Nervous Smile

Did your town have a band who never made it, but who you were sure should have done? Slough did I imagine most towns have that one band – that one band who might have made it, were it not for bad breaks, bad decisions, bad haircuts, bad whatever. In Slough, in the mid-1980s, that band was the Wallflowers. They had the support of Andy Partridge (who produced their second single, Thank You) and Johnny Marr (who was due to work with them until he got distracted by the small matter of the Smiths s...

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