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They're the New Beatles!

Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1997

Or the New Dylans. Or the New Stones. Maybe they were the New Johnny Hates Jazz. Whatever, whether plugging a gap left by the originals or trapped in a pigeonhole they never deserved, there have always been those who followed. Phil Sutcliffe tells the stories of artists dogged by comparison: the valiant victims and the vindicated.

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