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Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Marc Almond

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Marc Almond
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: July 9
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