The Stone Roses: Second Coming
Ben Thompson, MOJO, February 1995
IF THE BYRDS HAD BEEN WELSH; IF Lenny Kravitz shopped at Kwik Save; if the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Wishbone Ash or Eddie & the Hot Rods or just about any other fusty old rock legend you care to name had sounded a lot less like themselves and a lot more like the Stone Roses, this is what they might have sounded like. Well, thank goodness that 's all cleared up.
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