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Steven Patrick Morrissey

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.

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Steven Patrick Morrissey is saying that he didn't find the British punk scene very new or unique because he had already been deeply familiar with the music coming out of New York since 1973. He implies that the British punk sound was influenced by or similar to what he had been listening to from New York artists before it became popular in Britain.

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