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Heart & Soul: The Band

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1994

MENTION THE BAND TO PEOPLE IN 1993 and the chances are they'll say: "What band?" So much for the enduring legacy of the finest group to emerge from the wreckage of the momentous mid-'60s. Yet in a way, the question – the ignorance – befits them, since their very name reflected the anonymity they strove to cultivate: the sense that this was a unit composed of five musicians and no stars.

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