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Tears for Fears: The Stunning, The Lovely & The Brilliant

Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1985

BATH, ENGLAND – In America, people take baths; in England, they not only take them but live in them. And they pronounce them funny – not baaaath but bahhhhhth. And if, in England, you tell people you are going to the city of Baaaaath, they will grin and you will feel very much like Gomer Pyle sans the snazzy uniform.

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