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Richard Ashcroft: Alone With Everybody (Hut) **

Tom Cox, The Guardian, 16 June 2000

KINDRED TO THE hippie but more English, less articulate, less political, more self-serving and better at fighting, the dippie is a breed of musician that has emerged in the last half-decade, slightly confused about his role as the saviour of pop, but righteously pissed off with music's spiritual decline.

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