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Paul Brannigan

"I have to get people to slap me across the face in case it’s all just been a dream." For the first nine years of their career, No Doubt were seen as a joke. But when they released Tragic Kingdom, no-one was laughing at them anymore

No Doubt, June 14, 1996 in Mountain View, California.

Every time Gwen Sefani ventures outside her parents’ Orange County home she gets the same question.

”Does anyone ever tell you that you look like that girl?”

By “that girl”, they mean the effervescent frontwoman of No Doubt, currently sitting pretty at Number One on the nation’s album chart, "that girl' who is on the cover of all the national music magazines, and constantly on MTV. And Gwen Stefani just shrugs and walks away with a smile. Being “that girl” has never been so much fun.

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