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Soft Cell: Tawdry Latenight Weepies

Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 29 January 1983

IMITATION OF life or bigger than life?
When Marc Almond and David Ball breeze into their record company's press office for this meeting, they're immediately swept up in the sort of flurry of activity that threatens to take them away from the trivialities, consuming desires and magnificent obsessions their songs describe so well.

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