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Who is the fat monk singing Gloria?

Who is the fat monk singing Gloria?

And: what does it feel like to win big on a horse? A play in New York

Dec 03, 2023
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Shane McGowan, I loved you.

I’m taken back to London, '84 and '85, just seventeen, boozing around Camden, crashing in a tiny bedsit in New Cross Gate. At 17, you think you've got the world figured out, don’t you? I felt like the King of London, at least that's what I bragged to mates back in Kidderminster.

Remember the GLC's free festivals in Battersea Pa…

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