Mercury Rev: Dream Of A Lifetime
David Stubbs, Uncut, September 2001
"WE WERE NEVER interested in placing ourselves, in saying that we were a band that started in the late Eighties and were the musical emissaries of that era," says Jonathan Donahue, vocalist and chief songwriter of the mercurial and miraculous Mercury Rev.
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