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Beck: Manchester University

Simon Warner, The Guardian, 28 November 1994

IS THIS the age of the neurotic self-obsessive? Sold out signs at Beck's debut UK gig suggest that his curious blend of twitchy unease and languid egomania chimes with these strange times. Certainly, after capturing hearts on the campuses of the States, he appears set to do the same over here.

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