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Hi-Elegy: Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis

Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 17 January 1998

BEFORE WE GET to the heart of the matter: Mark Hollis used to be the singer in Talk Talk, a group who began their career as tie-tucked-into-shirts Duran imitators at the start of the '80s and ended it ten years later as the moodiest practitioners of avant-pop since Roxy Music.

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