Nick Lowe
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 18 March 1978
EVERYONE GETS that glazed marzipan look in make-up. Maybe it's some weird chemical that they put in the booze in the Artists' Bar at Television Centre, but anyone who's been through the make-up procedure ends up looking like a waxwork.
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