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Causing a Commotion: Lloyd Cole

Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1995

AT THE BEGINNING, he seemed tailor-made for rock stardom. Young, good-looking and menacingly literate, Lloyd Cole exploded out of nowhere (well, Scotland actually) in 1984, leading his Commotions through one of the most memorable singles of an already memorable year, ‘Perfect Skin’.

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