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N2’s BRIAN HARRINGTON talks to Swindon-born Justin Hayward ahead of his UK Harmony tour, which will include Reading’s Hexagon on March 16 and Basingstoke Anvil on March 21. ‘There’s a lot to love,’ he says. BORN and raised in Swindon, Justin started performing in a semi-professional capacity while he was still at school. He told me that Swindon had a vibrant music scene back then so he had plenty of opportunities to play. At the age of 17 in 1963 he started answering audition ads in Melody Maker and after being ignored many times he got a reply from Marty Wilde, went to a studio in East London…