Level 42: The Most Famous Thumb in Rock
Stuart Maconie, Q, April 1994
NOW WHO would live in a house like this? one thinks, as the taxi traverses the length of the drive and passes between the ornamental lions to the satisfying, opulent scrunch of gravel beneath the wheel.
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