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The Stone Roses showed me the power of being an introvert
Source: The Guardian · Published
At boarding school in the early 90s, quietness was seen as weakness. But then I saw the band’s guitarist John Squire making a vast noise while hiding behind a fringe – and learned the strength of understatement In September 1991, I had just been thrown into the meat-grinder of a Midlands boarding school. In this bear pit, there were predators and there was prey. You were either the swaggering…
Key points
- At boarding school in the early 90s, quietness was seen as weakness.
- But then I saw the band’s guitarist John Squire making a vast noise while hiding behind a fringe – and learned the strength of understatement In September 1991, I had just been thrown into the meat-grinder of a Midlands boarding school.
- In this bear pit, there were predators and there was prey.
- You were either the swaggering…
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