Wedged Down The Throat: Fine Young Cannibals
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 14 December 1985
ONE OF THE truly Great Bores Of Today is the "politicised" pop star who remarks that what was really bad about the riots (or whatever) was the way it was presented, right, in the media.
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