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Rickie Lee Jones: The Magazine (Warner Bros)

Ian Penman, New Musical Express, October 1984

For song, as sung by you, is ... not
Wooing of something finally attained.
Far other is the breath of real singing.
An aimless breath. A stirring in the god. A breeze.
(Rilke)

Total word count of piece: 833

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