Blur: Parklife
Stuart Maconie, Q, June 1994
TO USE the vernacular of our friends in the American therapy industry, today's music business is not "a nurturing environment". One might use the expression "cut-throat" if that didn't seem so insulting to our piratical ancestors.
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