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'"Music has been my draught of intoxication [since] I first heard the Beatles in early 1964," wrote Dorothy Porter in her essay On Passion, "I have been a pop/rock music maniac ever since, and have written virtually all my poems to rock riffs and rhythm – the catchier, the darker, the louder, the gutsier the better." ...'
