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The author of Love is a Mix Tape returns to share the soundtrack to his eighties adolescence. Sheffield's coming-of-age story has a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. --From publisher description.
First publish date: 2010
Authors: Rob Sheffield
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