Viv Albertine: ‘It’s a weakness to want to be adored’

The musician and writer, 63, on being in the Slits, the wisdom of older mothers and the genius of Vivienne WestwoodI’ve always felt a bit of a fraud looking like a normal English person when inside I’m a raging mixed up sort of mongrel from four different countries. I thought I had this horrible foreign sounding name when I was young because there was so much hostility towards “foreigners” after the war. The kids at school used to call me things like Albert or Albatros...

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