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“It wasn't until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham, Alex Chilton and I all felt the same void after the Beatles broke up, and somehow we were all trying to fill it.”

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I can make a record when I think I have a good one.

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It gets very lonely out on the road some times.

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I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

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