Terence Trent D’Arby
Barney Hoskyns, Sunday Times, 1987
WHEN Terence Trent DArbys very first single was released four months ago, it became difficult to open a magazine or turn on the television without seeing his androgynously beautiful face staring at you. He was everywhere. The Tube booked him three times in a month; every evening on Radio 1 he seemed to be holding forth in his boyish mid-Atlantic voice.
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