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The New Cue #432 October 28: Gavin Friday - singer, composer, U2's creative director and former Virgin Prune.

"This guy grabbed me by the throat, took out a gun and put it to my head..."

Oct 28, 2024
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Many years ago, at a time known as the 1970s, in the Northside of Dublin, near a suburb by the airport called Ballymun, on a road named Cedarwood, there lived a group of boys who met at a house party when one of the boys, a gatecrasher named Fionan, was caught raiding the fridge. They were 14-years-old. A mi…

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