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Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Ten Years After The Repetitive Beat Generation

Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, July 2008

OVER A decade ago I researched the rise and fall of a British publishing phenomenon – the so called 'cult fiction' of writers like Nicholas Blincoe, John King, Jeff Noon, and Irvine Welsh.

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