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Cult heroes: Miracle Legion – the band Thom Yorke loved, who could have been REM

Martin Aston, The Guardian, 17 May 2016

EVEN AT THE TIME, in April 1986, I knew it was unnecessary hyperbole on my part when my submitted Melody Maker feature about an emerging quartet from New Haven, Connecticut, included the claim, "If all the praise about REM was true, then they'd be Miracle Legion."

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