The Proclaimers: Hit The Highway (Chrysalis)
Mark Cooper, Q, April 1994
DEF LEPPARD, Tears For Fears, even The Stone Roses have their excuses. After all, success breeds its own insecurities and what's a year or two between platinum albums, especially when those albums are complex, layered affairs involving endless overdubbing, remixing and other forms of self-doubt?
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