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Almost Infamous

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 26 January 2001

Anticipating the February 9 UK release of Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous, about a callow young scribe hitting the road with a mid-’70s rock band, the cover headline on the January 27 issue of the New Musical Express was "Sex, Drugs and Rock Journalism: the Outrageous True Confessions of NME’s Greatest Writers!"

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