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The House of Love, The Darling Buds and The Wonder Stuff: Tomorrow Belongs To Us

Len Brown, New Musical Express, 7 January 1989

AT THE DAWN OF 1989 I'm confronted by Guy House Of Love Chadwick, Andrea Darling Bud and Miles Wonder Stuff. The first, an anorexic Brian Jones lookalike, forever in danger of catching his shirt tails in the nearest door; the second, a blaze of electric blue with blonde mop and Welsh lilt; the third, a tangle of dark curls and ruddy workman's boots, just like the bloke in that "put life in your equipment" battery ad. ("Hey, boy, don't they have barbers where you come from?")

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