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Jo Duddridge Addresses Growing Up Pains. Later Youth: Living History Album Review Break up. Illness. Incapacity. Heartbreak. Death. Grief. Not necessarily in that order, but what can an artist do with all that? Such universal themes could be examined in a poetry collection, or if verse is not your thing, on an album, obviously. Jo Dudderidge has a lot to get through in this review of his early adult life.     We are all of course products of our own history, but the question is and challenge is whether we let the history dictate our current path, or learn from mistakes, difficult moments, events and move on.     In this album, Dudderidge does his best to excise, exorcise and excuse his past, with some hints at future wishes and dreams. The album  Living History  is led by Jo Dudderidge, operating under the collective name of Later Youth.  Dudderidge, a Mancunian multi-instrumentalist, producer, session musician produces a report on the findings o...