"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."

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"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn."

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"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."

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