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The critical condition: Awop bop aloo bop and so on

Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 December 1998

The thing about pop music is it's everywhere. It's part of the day to day fabric of the world we live in, whether we like it or not. Which spells trouble for the high-minded. In the penultimate piece in our series, Andy Gill considers what it means to be a rock critic

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