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S5 E3 Part 1/3: Billy J Kramer, Paper Lace
Season 5, Ep. 3
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Representing the 1960s and 1970s: retrospective menace from a Beatles diffusion line, and our first singing drummer, whose band pays tribute to Nottingham's fine industrial heritage.
Still to come: the 1980s and 1990s in Part 2, and the 2000s and 2010s in Part 3.
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