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The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’


As he plays Glastonbury and prepares a Fabric mix, Skinner answers your questions on his film debut, dinners with Chris Martin and the secret to true happiness

Nay-face My favourite song ever is A Boy Named Sue, performed by Johnny Cash but written by Shel Silverstein, who was essentially a children’s poetry writer, but wrote some of the Dr Hook hits. Benhabs I had this amazing “creative” at the record label who told me that when you’re making an album cover, don’t look at it full size, because people won’t experience it that big. You can make yourself comfortable by turning the heating up or watching a nice movie, but I tell my children that the only true happiness is on the other side of doing difficult things.

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