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You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

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Rob Sheffield
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: February 2
Journalist
Music Critic
Writer
the United States of America
Robert James Sheffield
Attitude
Beehive
Beehives
Glam
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