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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
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I read too much science fiction to mess with anything. I’d be terrified that, by changing something, my kids wouldn’t be mine.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2017 source ↗

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