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SINCE ARISING FROM the ashes of The Sid Presley Experience in the South London of 1985, The Godfathers have dealt in a particularly savage, tunes-based strain of sharp-suited, punk-edged rock’n’roll. Upon signing to Epic in ’87, they released the classic Birth School Work Death, toured extensively and made significant Billboard chart inroads.