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<p>(2020).</p>

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<p>In 1977, Miller had split up with his girlfriend.  A friend suggested that he read a book the friend himself had just finished. The book was <a href="page.php?w=Crash_%281973_novel%29">Crash</a> (1973) by <a href="page.php?w=J._G._Ballard">J. G. Ballard</a>. He felt that Ballard's writing took him five minutes into the future; the novel was to be a major influence in the music he would produce as The Normal.Miller was disillusioned by the fact you needed to learn three chords to be in a punk band, so he decided</p><p>
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