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Duffy: Rockferry ***

Bob Stanley, The Times, 1 March 2008

BEHIND THE BLONDE BANGS, you get the feeling there might have been more than the odd moment of self-doubt for Duffy. You can almost see the troubled spirit of Dusty on one shoulder, the head of Universal Records on the other. Rockferry, her debut album, is being sold to us as an issue, an important statement made by an important new voice. And there's no hype, they say: Duffy is a natural-born star.

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