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ACTION PACT — NME's Ian MacDonald tries to make sense of Krautrock enigmas Faust in 1973, while Ed Jones welcomes that year's Faust IV in Cracker magazine. Plus MOJO's Andy Gill puts his questions to the band's Jean-Hervé Peron in 1997 and The Wire's David Stubbs explains his own Faustian pact in 2004…
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NORTHERN EXPOSURE — Paul Morley (pictured in 1977) reports on the rise of Manchester's music scene for NME in early 1979. Plus Paul sees Joy Division live at the city's Band On The Wall in 1978, witnesses New Order's 1981 "haunting" of London's Heaven after Ian Curtis' suicide, and pens the Guardian obituary for Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, the subject of his remarkable new biography From Manchester with Love…
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