Eddi Reader: Mirmama
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1992
FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION SPLIT after one platinum album, The First Of A Million Kisses; 'Perfect', the sound of summer '88, was soundaliked and killed by an Asda ad; and singer Eddi Reader's idiosyncratic talent seemed to have been lost between there and here.
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