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Your support makes all the difference.In the week that the complete Beatles Anthology was released with all drug references expunged ...
Scenes from Pop without Drugs
Ten hours and boxed
A hundred quid
Anthology, the Beatles vid.
Out recently on EMI
The censored sleevenotes barely dry
And free of druggy reference
A recent market preference
For sterilising history
And taking out the mystery,
No acid house and no hip-hop,
These are scenes from drug-free pop:
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With ordinary porters in Railtrack ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
A girl with the Radio Times.
Lucy by the fire with ironing
Socks and Rugs and Washing Bowls
Waiting for My Flan
Teas are good. Teas are good
Cuppa teas are good...
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