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Susan Cadogan: Hurt So Good

FIRST she took our hearts, in the palm of her hand — and she certainly squeezed it tight. When I first heard Susan Cadogan’s lovers’ 1975 rock hit Hurt So Good on a cassette tape in my parents’ car as a child, I never dreamed that one day I’d see the reggae star up close in Glasgow.

But I bought tickets within an hour of discovering she was playing an intimate night at Govanhill’s Rum Shack. 

An old friend and I were among the youngest in the crowd, but the love for the golden age of reggae covers was universal.

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