Laurie Anderson ‘O Superman’

byDave Simpson
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Laurie Anderson tells us about the very unassuming way her massive 1981 hit, ‘O Superman’, came to be

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Laurie Anderson ‘O Superman’

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Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

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Laurie Anderson ‘O Superman’

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