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Call Tom Petty The New Springsteen And He'll Cut You!

Max Bell, New Musical Express, 15 March 1980

THE PICCADILLY Hotel in Manchester is an anonymous modern structure slipped neatly inside a multi-storey car park — an injection of glass and concrete at the core of a wraparound helter skelter. The ethos behind such a building is entirely American, the accent on efficiency and impersonality.

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