Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine: From Cardboard City To Celebrity Central
Stephen Dalton, Vox, September 1991
A Top 20 Single in Britain, feted in the USA and Japan...Suddenly Carter are hot. But it's been a long, hard haul for this duo of thirtysomethings, and there are plenty of skeletons lurking in their closet, as Stephen Dalton discovers.
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