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Perhaps the Basques, who have fought for their region for decades, who stood up to Franco, whose towns and villages are painted with political slogans about the downtrodden and justice… perhaps they could see a bit of themselves in the Tottenham story.

DAN CARRIER celebrates Spurs’ Europa League final victory – Camden New Journal

Like most court jesters, Status Quo internalise great loneliness and despair. Consider the regretful pills-and-powder sentiments of songs such as “Marguerita Time”, “Living on an Island”, “Down Down” and “What You’re Proposing”, made all the more doleful by the bleached stoicism of Francis Rossi’s pinched voice. Their prototypical heads-down Ur-boogie, meanwhile, is the cosmic hamster’s wheel made sound, a pitch-perfect aural representation of the existential treadmill.

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