To mark the 40th anniversary of Strawberry Switchblade's single Let Her Go, every day this week we'll be posting content to do with the song. Here's the full-page ad placed in the UK music press - 'from the girls that know'.

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Strawberry Switchblade on the cover of Patches, 24 March 1984.

Patches was a UK weekly magazine aimed at teenage girls, featuring music, fashion, advice and romance photo-stories.

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Strawberry Switchblade by candlelight.

Back page poster from UK music mag Record Mirror, 1985.

(📸©️Peter McArthur, used with permission)

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Strawberry Switchblade talking about their aesthetic & how Glasgow boredom encourages creativity. Interviewed by Paul Coia, March 1985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7J03YPSlQ

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On this day 40 years ago Strawberry Switchblade recorded their final BBC radio session, for John Peel. With Since Yesterday in the top 10 & the album imminent, you'd have thought they'd be showcasing some of its songs. Instead, they recorded 4 new tracks 🧵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_O2uUlx1Fs

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Strawberry Switchblade centrespread poster from No 1 magazine, 1985.

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Happy birthday to Roddy Frame, 61 today!

Roddy and Aztec Camera were part of the same early 1980s teenage Glasgow indie scene that spawned Strawberry Switchblade, and he played his beautiful sweeping acoustic guitar chords on the debut single Trees and Flowers in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY9uMD3tZcY

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Strawberry Switchblade perform Since Yesterday on Top of the Pops, 24 January 1985 - 40 years ago today!

Having appeared on the show 2 weeks previously the single had shot up the charts to its peak at number 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXFWv2o73U

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