The Verve: Touched I'm Sure
Stuart Maconie, Q, September 1993
"ER, A PINT of lager, did you say?" The barmaid is distracted. She has every right to be. Her current customer cuts rather a visual swathe through the regular lunchtime clientele of shirt-sleeved salesmen and Oxford Street shoppers.
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