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End of the ’Line

“It was a funky place, a dive. But I loved The Borderline”
MIKE MILLS

THERE’S possibly only one club venue in the world that hosted gigs by Bruce Willis and Kiefer Sutherland, as well as REM, Pearl Jam, Blur, Ryan Adams, Debbie Harry and Amy Winehouse. Soho’s Borderline, which began life in the 1980s as the basement bar

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