Beck, Guero and Scientology
Stephen Dalton, Scotland on Sunday, 26 March 2005
ON THE SURFACE, nothing is wrong with Beck Hansen. No wires protrude from his dirty-blond moptop. No glazed expressions, no shifty answers, no sense of humour bypass. Alarming rumours that the thinking rock fan's favourite party smarty has been kidnapped by religious cultists have cleary been exaggerated.
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