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Gwen Stefani: ‘Don’t Speak changed everything – it’s the heartbeat of who I am’
The pop veteran answers your questions about the California ska scene in the 90s, making it big with No Doubt and finding love again with the country star Blake Shelton
Photograph: NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images What was it like in the early days in California with all those up-and-coming ska punk bands like Sublime? scroogemcgrew It was a really exciting time in Orange County when all the UK ska stuff like the Specials, Madness and the Selecter was super underground in America and really inspired us. We have a house together in Oklahoma and during the pandemic we came across this very old building on the land and there were some purple irises, which someone must have planted centuries ago, but they’ve survived.
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