The Tourists: Overcoming A Bad Press

Cynthia Rose, A.M., 1980

THE TOURISTS ARE A BAND WHO feel they’ve proved that pressures to conform and problems of access needn’t be insuperable barriers. They were founded two years ago, by singer Annie Lennox, who left her native Aberdeen to study at The Royal College of Music in London, and two musician friends, Peet Coombes and Dave Stewart.

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