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No More Heroes?

Sean O'Hagan, The Face, March 1991

Where have all the pop stars gone? Artists like Elvis Presley or The Beatles are the record company ideal, showing steady sales year after year. But now companies relying increasingly on old names, realising uneasily that there have been no new acts with staying power since the mid-Eighties. Sean O'Hagan reports on an industry in crisis

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