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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

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Beth Ditto
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 19
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.
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