The Blue Nile: Peace At Last (Warner)
Stuart Maconie, Q, July 1996
AS PROLIFIC AS the Easter Island statue makers and with almost as underworked a PR, The Blue Nile will feature heavily when Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Pop World gets its long overdue commission.
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