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Depeche Mode: Violator **

Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 14 June 1990

AS EDISON MIGHT have put it, most great disco is one-percent inspiration, ninety-nine-percent perspiration. Its unguarded vulgarity is what puts it over – "I'm not the same/I have no shame," Madonna sang on her first record.

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