Hizey called me up to come round to the studio with my guitar, and I arrived about two hours late with a black cloud over my head. Since everything went wonky with the Boys from Birmingham, I was used to working on my own and pleasing no one else but myself, and I hated the idea of an artistic overlord, especially one who looked the part of an epic square. But from the start Hizey was so kind in the face of my hideousness…. He quoted back to me his favorite bits from the first record, which no one had bothered to listen to, and he confessed that I was, to his mind, the most promising artist at
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