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PRIMAL SCREAM — ‘Miss Lucifer’
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— 10 Jun 2002 Tom Comment

PRIMAL SCREAM — ‘Miss Lucifer’
Hold on to your hats! Or sides. ‘Skinny girl / Dressed in black / Leather boots / Nazi hat / Tattooed panther / [something something]* / Sexy dancer / Immaculate grace / SHAKE IT BABY!’ &#8[…]

Supertroupers
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— 10 Jun 2002 Tom Comment

Supertroupers: from the same edition of the Guardian, a quiet demonstration of how it should be done, as Peter Paphides interviews two of ABBA. An experienced pop writer taking on and taking seriously a group he clearly has great affection for &#8211[…]

The Poet and the Princess
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— 10 Jun 2002 Tom Comment

The Poet and the Princess: Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Shakira, a featurette that must have got the commissioning editors salivating. Actually, Colombia’s most famous novelist turns in a celebrity puff piece that would have had Hello! blushing. I[…]

IHM NAIVE LYRIC WATCH
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— 10 Jun 2002 Tanya Headon Comment

IHM NAIVE LYRIC WATCH
Melanie – “I Don’t Eat Animals”
“I don’t eat animals, and they don’t eat me”
Oh course who am I to argue with the seminal thinker and proto-Mel in pop about her vegetarianism, but […]

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