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Cocteau Twins: "None Of This Should Have Happened"

Mark Cooper, Q, April 1987

Unlistenable early tapes. Refusals to appear on Top Of The Pops. Information-free record sleeves. A mistrust of people "who can play all the strings on a guitar at once". Success, for the Cocteau Twins, came by accident not design.

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