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One-Hit Wonders: They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

Mat Snow, Q, March 1991

Rock ‘n’ roll, they say, is a cruel mistress. How often has pop fame proved but a tragically brief interlude between obscurity and oblivion! Well, an uncaring world may forget about those shooting stars we call the One-Hit Wonders — but Mat Snow hasn’t...

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