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Another day, another problem – and as the advice bureau’s postbag was starting to fill up once more we really thought it was time to put aside such fripperies as featured tracks and album reviews and […]
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It was starting to seem that, against all expectations, we’d actually managed to solve all the problems of the world through music.  The tumbleweeds were blowing gently past the door to the advice office, and a […]
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It seemed that the quiet spell in the advice game was going to be broken at last, until the latest person to enter started to tell his tale.  Bruce, for it was he, didn’t exactly have […]
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