The Tube: Sound Of The Underground
David Stubbs, Guardian, The, 28 May 2005
THE RELEASE OF the first series of The Tube on DVD is a chance to give kudos to a groundbreaking programme that naively but bravely attempted to put great bands in the TV mainstream.
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