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Edwyn Collins: ‘Could an Orange Juice reunion ever be on the cards? No!’

The singer-songwriter on breaking up his band, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith

Up in Helmsdale [in the Scottish Highlands], in my studio, I have an art deco radiogram speaker which has a sort of sunburst thing with that phrase written on it. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns When you first wrote and recorded A Girl Like You, did you have any inkling that it would be such a huge worldwide hit, or did its success take you by surprise? Photograph: Steve Rapport/Getty Images Seventies Night, a song that you recorded with the late Mark E Smith, became a staple in my DJ sets.

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