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In a song off Abbey Road, Mean Mr. Mustard’s sister “takes him out to look at” this person. (15[2])An album named (15[1])for this person (15[1])was originally named for a certain politician “on the Guillotine” and features Alain Delon on the cover; (15[1])the singer on the title track of that album (-5[1])bids (15[1])“farewell to this land’s cheerless marshes”. A song titled for this person, originally titled “No Future”, was played during a river (*) boat concert that was broken up after the Metropolitan Police arrested the (10[1])band; that song decries “the fascist regime”. An album titled for this person includes a song (10[1])which claims “to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die” and imagines a “double-decker bus” which “crashes into us”. For 10 points, the Beatles were given MBEs by which person, who “Is Dead” in the title (10[1])of an album by the Smiths? ■END■ (10[1])

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