The truth about Dagenham Dave

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interview given by the Stranglers, here's the truth on this famous Finshley Boys

"Finchley is apparently the borough with the second largest population in London. These guys, who were then very hardcore punks - safety pins through their cheeks, the whole bit - apparently found they could identify with us and just started following us to every gig." He is very impressed, very touched even - he claims - when The Stranglers play a gig some two hundred miles from London and find a whole contingent of Finchley Boys present.

And Dagenham Dave - as featured on the "No More Heroes" cut, "Dagenham Dave": the phenomenally hedonistic black Dagenham car worker who was also one of the best self-educated people any of the band had ever come across - "He turned me on to Rabelais," says Burnel - and who, as one of The Stranglers' most devoted and zealous fans, first took on virtually all the Finchley Boys singlehanded down the 100 Club and then became a firm ally and mentor to them.




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