The Strokes: Room on Fire
Ben Thompson, Observer, The, 21 September 2003
THREE HOURS before I am left alone in a press-office antechamber with Britain's only copy of Room on Fire, something very important happens on the lunchtime live coverage of Fame Academy. (Don't worry, we'll get to the Strokes in a minute).
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