Spoilt Brat, Silly Prat Or Visionary Genius?: Billy Mackenzie
Don Watson, NME, 10 September 1983
ONLY A YEAR AGO The Associates seemed to have the world at their feet; with three hit singles behind them and their first tour in two years stretching out in front they were at a point of pop success undreamt of in the days of their Affectionate Punch debut. Then it was gone. Without a sound, without a word of goodbye the Associates ceased to exist.
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