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SHAME

hirtless, bespectacled, and from a hotel room bed, Charlie Steen from UK band Shame is looking a little worse for wear. “I don't regret it but it's not sustainable,” he says, clearing the frog in his throat. He isn't referring to his current hungover state but to the hyper-energetic live shows and early hedonism of his then teenage-band's

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