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Sep 13Liked by Steve Pick

Love Marion Davies! If you can find Show People, which is also silent, it is very funny.

Pictures of Matchstick Men blew my mind when I was a kid. I remember my friend and I trying to write down the lyrics.

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"Pictures of Matchstick Men" was ubiquitous on St. Louis radio in the late 1960s. And was one of my favorites. And you're even a little older than me. Were you listening to radio back then, curious?

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We all lead different lives. I didn't start listening to the radio until 1971, when I was 12, and even then it was top 40 stations KXOK and KIRL. So I never heard Status Quo until much later, and I never heard "Pictures of Matchstick Men" until Camper Van Beethoven did it.

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