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I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.

Stephen Mallinder

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Stephen Mallinder
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
Guitarist
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Sheffield
England
Stephen William Mallinder
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