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Lisa Verrico, The Times, 22 June 2005
OF ALL THE SINGERS to emerge from Seattle's grunge scene, Soundgarden's Chris Cornell looked the least likely to sustain his stardom. His band — which broke up in 1997 — were huge, but never hip, and he lacked the poster-boy looks of Kurt Cobain and the charisma of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
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