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Ian Gomm: Pop’s Happy Amateur

Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 1 November 1979

"POP IS A MEANINGLESS term," Ian Gomm says as he takes a sip of beer in his manager’s London home. "But I’ve got a vested interest in propagating it because pop music is the only thing I do well."

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