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A First Lady of Punk Rock Talks

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After growing up in the London projects, Viv Albertine became a guitarist in one of the first all-girl punk bands. Her new memoir looks back at her life lived by the principles of punk.

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“Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke,” Viv Albertine, a former member of the influential British punk band The Slits, writes candidly in the opening of her memoir.

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