10,000 Maniacs
Bill Black, Sounds, 6 October 1984
"MY UNCLE CHARLIE read somewhere that we were a cult band so he thought we were playing for the Moonies. He even confronted me with it; he said, 'are you giving all your money to the Moonies? Is that why you don't have any money?'"
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